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ck aisles, each 25 m long, as shown in Figure . In the final layout, the system is expanded to a length of 30 m. In addition, space is provided for two future aisles. Although all the products stored here are considered slow movers, with some exceptions for products with small total required inventory measured in cubic volume, the principle of activitybased storage is extended further to identify the faster moving products (among the slow movers). These are placed in the ergonomically desirable golden zone. The small number of requests per order for slow moving products makes it appropriate to use a sortwhilepick (SWP) method for retrieval. An order picker uses a cart with multiple partments to pick items for several orders on one trip past the shelves. The partments items for different orders being mixed . Later, when the cart is moved to sorting, consolidation, and packing, there is actually little sorting work to do, but mainly consolidation and packing. Warehouse Management The operation of the warehouse requires careful and constant management. The scanning of received products is just one example of the functions performed by the WMS. It is beyond the scope of this chapter to present details of a typical WMS. However, some main features should be mentioned here. The tracking of flows throughout the warehouse is one of the basic functions of a WMS. This can be done manually, but most facilities today use barcode scanners, and many use barcode scanners intedatabase. A typical WMS enables the functions listed below. These requirements are not inclusive, but only indicate the types of functions desired. Further details are in (Sharp, 2021). The WMS should enable scheduling of personnel, including regular fulltime employees and temporary and parttime employees. Tracking of employee productivity is useful for training and workload balancing. Workload scheduling should be linked to forecast information, and the conversion of product volumes should be automatically translated to labor hours by function and employee productivity. outofstock conditions, process partial receipts, and quarantine products requiring inspection. It should generate labels for pallets and cartons with data on SKU (unique product type), description, date received, lot or purchase order number, expiration code(s), and location code(s). It should assign storage location recognizing physical characteristics of product, physical characteristics of location, environmental restrictions, and stock rotation. It should also have the ability to send products directly to outbound vehicles (crossdocking). The ability to schedule trucks and assign them to docks is also useful. mation of stow (storage) action, updating of inventory upon stow, stock reservation capability, and provision for cycle counting. The WMS should support more than one location per SKU and more than one SKU per location. Report generation should