A Sequential Heuristic for the Efficient Management of a Work Center’s Stocking Area

Fabrizio Marinelli, Andrea Pizzuti

2024

Abstract

In our partnership with a leading company specializing in automatic cutting machines for reinforcement processes, we address the management of a work center whose optimization calls for the solution of four distinct subproblems. Focusing on the third one, the subproblem asks for the effective packing of items on the identical buffers of a stocking area. The items arrive divided into subgroups (i.e., patterns), are associated with orders, and have time windows. We devise an SVC heuristic that efficiently determines feasible packing solutions while simultaneously minimizing the number of used buffers, lowering operations and fragmented orders. The SVC incorporates the idea of reachable points to restrict the location sets on the buffers. The experimental campaign highlights the SVC’s effectiveness in achieving optimality for small realistic instances, with a specific emphasis on reducing fragmented orders. Additionally, the approach showcased its ability to explore the multi-objective space and demonstrated scalability in solving practical instances.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Marinelli F. and Pizzuti A. (2024). A Sequential Heuristic for the Efficient Management of a Work Center’s Stocking Area. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES; ISBN 978-989-758-681-1, SciTePress, pages 253-260. DOI: 10.5220/0012352000003639

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icores24,
author={Fabrizio Marinelli and Andrea Pizzuti},
title={A Sequential Heuristic for the Efficient Management of a Work Center’s Stocking Area},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES},
year={2024},
pages={253-260},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012352000003639},
isbn={978-989-758-681-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES
TI - A Sequential Heuristic for the Efficient Management of a Work Center’s Stocking Area
SN - 978-989-758-681-1
AU - Marinelli F.
AU - Pizzuti A.
PY - 2024
SP - 253
EP - 260
DO - 10.5220/0012352000003639
PB - SciTePress