| Article ID: | iaor19981573 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 237 |
| End Page Number: | 245 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1996 |
| Journal: | Location Science |
| Authors: | Vickson Raymond G., Fujimoto Allen |
| Keywords: | location |
This paper examines the problem of optimal product location in a single bi-directional carousel storage and retrieval system. For items with independent demands, it establishes the long-run average optimality of a simple demand rate ranking and partitioning scheme which has previously been suggested in the literature through heuristic reasoning and simulation studies.