Ergo-lot-sizing: An approach to integrate ergonomic and economic objectives in manual materials handling

Daria Battini, Christoph H. Glock, Eric H. Grosse, Alessandro Persona and Fabio Sgarbossa

International Journal of Production Economics, 2017, vol. 185, issue C, 230-239

Abstract: Over the last decades, academics and practitioners have paid much attention to lot-sizing, which determines economic order and production quantities by balancing inventory holding and setup cost. Recently, researchers have started to integrate sustainability issues into lot-sizing models. The focus of these works has been on environmental and economic dimensions of sustainability, however, while only few contributions studied the social aspect of this problem. Especially in in-house logistics, where a high amount of manual material handling is performed, lot-sizing decisions can have a significant impact on workload and human performance, which can have a strong influence on ergonomic parameters and thus worker welfare.

Keywords: Lot-sizing; Ergonomics; Rest allowance; In-house logistics; Manual material handling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2017.01.010

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