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Logistics & Automation - Part

In this article we begin to go into the more technical logistics, considering aspects related to the management and operational tools in the logistical capacity to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of its work.

A first great chapter of the technique is related to its logistics automation. In recent years the technological opportunities that have been developed for logistics are excellent, and led to put the issue of automation in activities that until a decade ago were the exclusive prerogative of the person managing the logistics, resulting in increased effectiveness and efficiency of logistics processes. In logistics

the introduction of automation can be related to two different parts of the work:
- introduction of automation in decision-making
- introduction of automation at the operational level

separate ways Let's see in where automation fits into these two distinct areas.

Automation decision
This category of operations, automation is made explicit through the introduction and use of decision support tools (called DSS, Decision Support Systems). These tools, which in practice are represented by computer programs are used for programming, simulation and deciding how to manage logistics operations to which they relate.
Within this group of instruments, depending on the type of activities they are involved in modeling, one can distinguish between different macro-categories, so they are very brief following.

Inventory Management : also known as MRP (Material Requirements Planning), automatically manage the parameters for the management of stocks (typically reorder points, and lots of cheap shopping), allowing the operator to act on stocks basic parameters of the program, which automatically generate orders for the supply, without having to analyze each case the products, their consumption, their delivery times.
Transport Management: This is the so-called heuristic algorithms, which, with a grouping mechanism of progressive gripping / delivery (the so-called clustering), shall, within a reasonable time to retry a sub-optimal solution of transport in case of sockets / deliveries from multiple starting points to multiple points of destination, it must be understood as the solution that offers the lowest overall cost of transport, not the lowest cost of each trip.

Warehouse management: the so-called WMS (Warehouse Management Systems) are systems that automate more decisions that allow you to automate the control of warehouse operations. This is made possible by real-time tools to record all stock movements, allowing the generation of dashboards provide real-time by the information system. The control panel allows the operator of this store keeping under control all the basic parameters of the same, so you can manage tasks more safely.

We will see in the second part of this article with the automation tools related to operational activities

Good logistics!