Intelligent Manufacturing Management Systems

12Challenges of Warehouse Management Towards Smart Manufacturing: A Case of an Indian Consumer Electrical Company

Natarajan Ramanathan¹, Neeraj Vairagi¹, Sakti Parida¹, Sushanta Tripathy²*, Ashok Kumar Sar³, Kumar Mohanty³ and Alisha Lakra²

¹Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Limited, Mumbai, India

²School of Mechanical Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India

³School of Management, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India

Abstract

Warehouse is a segment of working strata of the products, where they are stored before being delivered to the consumers. The inventories in warehouse mainly depend on the supply and demand of the product. In this paper were have tried to identify the critical challenges faced by a warehouse of an Indian consumer electrical company towards smart manufacturing. The methodology used to analyze the challenges scenario of warehouse is ISM (Interpretive Structural Modelling). The challenging factors collected were through 32 supply chain expertise of the case company. Findings show that the ‘lack of automation’ needs attention in the long term focus factor, where as ‘Defective Materials from Both Ends,’ ‘Gap Between Supply and Demand,’ ‘Multiple Price Revision,’ and ‘Manpower Balancing Between Pick and off ’ stand the short term impact.

Keywords: Warehouse management, consumer electrical company, challenges, Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM)

12.1 Introduction

The world is moving towards digitalization, and to compete ...