| dc.description.abstract | Because our country has impacted by globalization, and the network is growing fast, the market competition is becoming more and more fierce. For those reasons, the logistics industry has to find an operation mode which was more effective to conform to the demands of consumer market, and provide a higher level and quality to customers. Thus, reducing the operation time and costs from receiving to shipping by using appropriate operation strategy will significantly impact the effectiveness of logistic center.
Kiva operation is a latest strategy of logistics operations, which means that Kiva operation changed to handle goods in ＂goods to person＂ method instead of in ＂person to goods＂ method, which subverted the measures in traditional logistics, resulting in big reduction in the cost and time of the whole operation process. Therefore, the time from purchase to shipment can be minimized. For those characteristics, Kiva operation is particularly suitable for urgent orders and it can pick orders from order pool to pick and pack, and then ship.
This research aims to three issues of Kiva Operation System, which were order assigning problem rule, order of workstation selecting problem rule, and order of cell selecting problem rule. Finally, in this environment, comparing the data by Total System Time, Total Tardiness, which were obtained by simulation experiments, to know which combination of the rules will performs better. | en_US |