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Assignment of stock keeping units to parallel unidirectional picking
(SAIIE, 2015-05)An order picking system consisting of a number of parallel unidirectional picking lines is investigated. Stock keeping units (SKUs) that are grouped by product type into distributions (DBNs) are assigned daily to available ...
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Added sugar, macro- and micronutrient intakes and anthropometry of children in a developing world context
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between added sugar and dietary diversity, micronutrient intakes and anthropometric status in a nationally representative study of children, 1–8.9 ...
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A multi-phase model to forecast congestion at Brazilian grain ports : a case study at the port of Paranagua
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Port congestion occurs when the number of vessels arriving at a port within a given time frame exceeds the number of vessels that can be served during that time frame. At Brazilian grain ports, congestion ...
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Identifying packaging criteria for sustainable packaging design and development : towards packaging efficiency and packaging integration in the fruit juice industry of South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is difficult to satisfy all the needs of customers in a competitive industry such as the fruit juice market in South Africa. Customers may be dissatisfied with the product for different reasons, which ...
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Supply management and procurement at a South African FMCG company : a practical example of developing a decision support tool for managing direct material cost
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)jfl201606
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A multi-objective approach towards geospatial facility location
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Applications of the sub-discipline of location science within the larger discipline of operations research include the location of important facilities, such as hospitals, re stations, libraries ...
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Measuring the effectiveness of allocation algorithms by means of simulation modelling
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The allocation of stock to stores is one of the most important processes in the management of a retail chain. In the clothing industry, allocation decisions include, amongst other, the determination of ...
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Investigating the current supply chain sustainability reporting practices of South African organisations
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The need for sustainable supply chain management has become a necessity given the growing impact of climate change and global warming. Given the limited literature on supply chain sustainability in South ...
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SKU assignment in a multiple picking line order picking system.
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: An order picking system in a distribution center (DC) owned by Pep Stores Ltd. (PEP) is investigated. Twelve unidirectional picking lines situated in the center of the DC are used to process all piece ...
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The development of an integrated supply chain competency model
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Supply chain management is an important contributor to business performance, both financially and in terms of customer service. This is proven by various research reports, ranging from industry research, ...
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The number of pickers and stock-keeping unit arrangement on a uni-directional picking line
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2014-11)The order picking process is often the single largest expense in a distribution centre (DC). The DC considered in this paper uses a picking line configuration to perform order picking. The number of pickers in a picking ...
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Die uitbreiding van kostevoordeelontleding met sosiale evaluering in die beplanning van openbare padbouprojekte : voorstel ter ondersteuning van die skep van n ontwikkelingstaat
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2014-12)In hierdie artikel word die groei- en ontwikkelingsvoordele wat uit ekonomies geregverdigde padbouprojekte kan spruit, geïdentifiseer. Die streeksekonomiese voordele wat paaie kan bied, word uiteengesit. Die groepe ...
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Supply chain planning : processes of a sports retail company
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There are numerous supply chain planning processes and activities that need to take place to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in a company. For the case study retailer, these planning processes and ...
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Supply chain finance : improving the efficiency of the table grape industry : a case study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: “Within the context of the current market conditions, SCF may be one of the most attractive tools for companies to diversify funding basis, enrich and solidify their relationships with suppliers and ...
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Packaging of table grapes for exports from SA : a comparative study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Table grapes are the second-largest contributor to the perishable product export in South Africa. The table grape industry also experienced considerable growth in the past ten years. The industry ...
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Self-organising traffic control algorithms at signalised intersections
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The debilitating social, economic and environmental ramifications of traffic congestion are experienced in large cities the world over. The optimisation of traffic signal timings at signalised road ...
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South Africa’s rising logistics costs : an uncertain future
(AOSIS Publishing, 2014-12)A country’s competitiveness can be severely hampered by an uncompetitive freight logistics system. During the first decade of the 21st century, two in-depth models were developed for South Africa which provide a framework ...
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South Africa's freight rail reform : a demand-driven perspective
(AOSIS Publishing, 2014-11)During the 20th century, freight transport in South Africa was employed to attain politicoeconomic ideals, resulting in the overprotection of rail and overregulation of road transport. Increasing industry pressure, ...
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Investigating temperature breaks in the summer fruit export cold chain : a case study
(AOSIS Publishing, 2013-11)There is concern in the South African fruit industry that a large amount of fruit and money is lost every season due to breaks in the fruit export cold chain. The possibility of a large percentage of losses in a significant ...
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Decision support for threat detection in maritime surveillance
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The policing and monitoring of South Africa's coastline and economic exclusion zone is made di cult not only by the size of the area of interest, but also by the limited resources available for maritime ...
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Advanced analytics strategy formulation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Despite the high potential impact of advanced analytics on the performance of businesses around the world, its uptake and application in an integrated and strategically aligned manner has been limited. ...
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A distributed system for enumerating main classes of sets of orthogonal Latin squares
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A Latin square is an n n array containing n copies of each of n distinct symbols in such a way that no symbol is repeated in any row or column. Two Latin squares are orthogonal if, when superimposed, ...
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The effects of incorporating vehicle acceleration explicitly into a microscopic traffic simulation model
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2013-08)Explicitly incorporating individual vehicle acceleration into a traffic simulation model is not a trivial task, and typically results in a considerable increase in model complexity. For this reason, alternative implicit ...
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Dominant factors which influence wheat production in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The protection of South Africa’s agricultural sector and in context, the wheat industry, is vital to ensure the food security and rural development of the country. The wheat industry contributes about R ...
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Supply chain configurations for the oil and gas industry : a service provider perspective
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Oil dependency has increased in the past few decades and the search for new reserves is a constant quest within the oil and gas industry. The oil and gas industry is characterised by the separation of ...
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Ensuring sufficient capacity of logistical infrastructure for future growth
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explore how forecasting techniques can be combined in linear programming (LP) as a tool to optimise the parameters of forecasting methods in order to ensure sufficient capacity of logistic ...
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On the (r,s)-domination number of a graph
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The (classical) domination number of a graph is the cardinality of a smallest subset of its vertex set with the property that each vertex of the graph is in the subset or adjacent to a vertex in the subset. ...
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Picking line data set B
(2014-02-27)This is a data set of picking lines that can by used for the comparison of the performance of different algorithms on the order sequencing and SKU location problem
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Picking line data set A
(2014-02-13)This is a data set of picking lines that can by used for the comparison of the performance of different algorithms
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