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Title: |
The Worker Allocation Planning Of A Medical Device
Distribution Center Using Simulation Modelling |
Authors: |
Thananya Wasusri, Kittikhun Iamsamai |
Published in: |
(2017).ECMS 2017 Proceedings
Edited by: Zita Zoltay
Paprika, Péter Horák, Kata Váradi, Péter Tamás Zwierczyk, Ágnes Vidovics-Dancs, János Péter Rádics European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2017 ISBN:
978-0-9932440-4-9/ ISBN:
978-0-9932440-5-6 (CD) 31st European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Budapest, Hungary, May 23rd
– May 26th, 2017 |
Citation
format: |
Thananya Wasusri, Kittikhun
Iamsamai (2017). The Worker Allocation Planning Of
A Medical Device Distribution Center Using Simulation Modelling,
ECMS 2017 Proceedings Edited by: Zita Zoltay Paprika, Péter Horák, Kata Váradi, Péter Tamás Zwierczyk, Ágnes Vidovics-Dancs, János Péter Rádics European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi: 10.7148/2017-0176 |
DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.7148/2017-0176 |
Abstract: |
Medical
Devices are essential for medical services. It is very necessary to manage
them to be ready for quick responding on the demand of the patients that can
be urgent. The case study is a Medical Device Distribution Center in Thailand
and its major task is to manage medical devices for its clients starting from
receiving to shipping. For the inbound logistics process, there are two types
of receiving products. The first type is Goods Receive, which is to receive
new products. The second type is Goods Return, which is to receive the
returned products from customers. The received products will be sent to five
different departments. Each department has a different amount of incoming
products for each day. The inequality workload clearly affects the
inefficiency of the inbound logistics process. This research is then
conducted to reduce the lead time of the inbound
logistics process. Discrete event simulation modeling using ARENA was
utilized to allocate workers in the inbound process. The new worker
allocation plan can reduce the average total inbound logistics process time
for all product groups. Moreover, the average utilization of each worker is
about 30%-40%. |
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