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The analysis and optimization of warehouse performance

Name: The analysis and optimization of warehouse performance
Start: 2023-11-28T10:30:00+00:00
End: 2023-11-30T13:00:00+00:00
Location: MF 11-12 (4th floor MetaForum Building, TU/e)

Nov 28, 2023, 10:30 - Nov 30, 2023, 13:00

For registration: please check the bottom of this webpage

Background

Warehouses are essential to the performance of today’s supply-chains. The analysis and optimization of warehouse performance is important to reduce the experienced delay of customers, especially considering the growth in demand fueled by e-commerce. During this three-day workshop various leading experts and young researchers will present their research on the evaluation and optimization of warehouses, using methods, e.g., from combinatorial optimization, queueing theory and machine learning. We plan to discuss both mathematical modeling and analysis, as well as the practical aspect of warehousing design.

The event includes:

A tutorial by: René de Koster (Erasmus University),
Keynote talks by: Nils Boysen (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena), Kees Jan Roodbergen (University of Groningen) and Debjit Roy (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad).
Talks from industry by: Denis Pogosov (Principal R&D Engineer, Vanderlande), Erik van Wunnik (Global Director Product Development, DSV), Anke Simons (Junior Consultant, CQM)
Talks from academia by: Vinh Dang (Eindhoven University of Technology), Tim Engels (TU/e), Negin Jamili (Erasmus University), Timo Lehmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Thomas De Lombaert (Hasselt University), Bhoomica Nataraja (TU/e), Farzaneh Rajabighamchi (Maastricht University), Arpan Rijal (University of Groningen), Lin Xie (University of Twente), Yingqian Zhang (TU/e)

Organisers: (all Eindhoven University of Technology):

Jacques Resing – Mathematics & Computer Science

Tim Engels – Mathematics & Computer Science

Ivo Adan – Industrial Engineering

Workshop schedule:

Day	Time	Speaker	Title
Tuesday 28 November	10:45 - 11:30	René de Koster	Warehouse Robotics. Insights from Research
	11:45 - 12:30	René de Koster	Warehouse Robotics. Insights from Research
	12:30 - 14:00	Lunchbreak
	14:00 - 14:45	Kees Jan Roodbergen	Advances in solving the storage location assignment problem
	15:00 - 15:30	Lin Xie	Reinforcement learning for picker routing in mixed-shelves warehouses
	16:00 - 16:30	Yingqian Zhang	Learning efficient and fair policies for collaborative human-robot order picking
	16:30 - 17:00	Bhoomica Nataraja	To Batch or Not to Batch? Optimizing Order Fulfillment using DRL
Wednesday 29 November	09:30 - 10:15	Nils Boysen	E-commerce warehousing and some new results on picker routing
	10:45 - 11:15	Tim Engels	Stochastic analysis of milk-run systems
	11:30 - 12:00	Timo Lehmann	Rack optimization for multi-deep robotic compact storage and retrieval systems with class based storage
	12:00 - 12:30	Farzaneh Rajabighamchi	Graph reduction for the Steiner Travelling Salesman Problem in a planar grid-graph. An application in order picking in multi-block layout warehouses

	12:30 - 14:00	Lunchbreak
	14:00 - 14:45	Denis Pogosov	Towards optimized bufferization: Retrieval-efficient storage and batch movement in warehouses
	15:00 - 15:45	Erik van Wunnik	What is the value of a Digital Twin of a warehouse operation?
	16:15 - 17:00	Anke Simons	The challenges of smart warehousing in practice
Thursday 30 November	09:30 - 10:15	Debjit Roy	Stochastic Models for Integrated Warehousing Systems: Modeling Constructs and Research Opportunities in Order Fulfillment

	10:45 – 11:15	Negin Jamili	Collaboration and Resource Sharing in Warehouses
	11:30 - 12:00	Vinh Dang	Order Release Strategies for a Collaborative Order Picking System
	12:00 - 12:30	Arpan Rijal	Dynamics between warehouse operations and vehicle routing
	12:30 - 13:00	Thomas de Lombaert	From centralization to worker autonomy: empowering order pickers in warehouse decisions