Layout Design of Warehouse for an e-retailer

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In an e-retail setting when a consumer orders products, information are passed to brick and mortar warehouse for delivery of the ordered product.  The brick and mortar warehouse may be owned by same e retailers or may owned by a third party, serving the on-line demands as well as the in-store demands. As most of the in-store retailers have also started selling products on line the layout of the warehouse should be redesigned to reduce the operational cost. So that the replenishment time for the store and delivery time for the on line order can be minimized.  In a traditional warehouse design a separate layout for the delivery of the on line orders has not been studied. Most of the studies focus on the layout of the warehouse designed for the in-store retail type of sales.

In this research we study the impact of the on line sales on the warehouse design. When an online orders are received at the warehouse through the website of the e retailer delivery process is initiated. The process is comprises of several steps.  The Steps are listed below

1. Identifying the product in the order and its location in the warehouse.
2. Placing the product on the delivery line
3. Generating the bill
3. Placing the packing material in the packing line.
4. Packing line meets delivery line
5. Packing of the orders
6. Generating the delivery address and sticking the address.
7. Pick up by and keeping on the relevant zone
8. Delivery boy goes for delivery when certain number of delivery is received or lead time promised is very short. 

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