Scheduling the truckload operations in automatic warehouses

This work presents a scheduling problem that arises in an automatic storage/retrieval warehouse system AS/RS involving the scheduling of the truck load operations. The truck loading operations are modelled as job shop problem with recirculation. The loads are considered as jobs, the pallets of a load are seen as the job's operations. The forklifts are the machines. The minimization of the makespan allows minimizing the idle time of the warehouse's equipments.