The first research towards defining order fulfillment strategies was published by Mather (1988) and his discussion of the P:D ratio, whereby P is defined as the production lead-time, i.e. how long it takes to manufacture a product, and D is the demand lead-time, i.e. how long customers are willing to wait for the order to … Continued
Quality assurance (QA) is a way of testing and checking the products so that the items and groups of items are what they should be. It is very important to have multiple quality control points: QA at receiving and during putaway process (quality indication of each logistic unit of goods in a warehouse); QA at … Continued
