Samenvatting

The greatly improved quantity of small and specific orders contain much work for the expedition department. The materials handling has improved a lot due to this trend and the costs per order increased. Important is, to reduce the costs and improve the profitability of the orders. This is achieved by reducing the handling costs.Especially the classification of the storage hall is not sufficient for the current situation. Over the years the situation at Plato changed a lot but the storage classification did not change. The sections are very large and include a lot of timber which leads to much unnecessary restacking. This problem can be solved or improved by making a new classification of the storage hall with much smaller sections. Changing the sections will bring not only measurable time and cost reduction, but also other advantages such as better stock overview and better allocation of the timber. Also repackaging which is necessary for the small orders can be improved. The outcome of this research is that Plato international B.V. can improve its internal logistics by implementing the recommended improvements of this research.