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Chapter 6
Decision Support Systems and Industrial IoT in Smart Grid, Factories, and Cities
A warehouse management system is a software package that is used to track the inventory life cycle in a warehouse or between warehouses and/or distribution centers (or an individual). It helps improve the warehouse operations like receiving a shipment, storing the product, preparing a product, or shipping away a product accurately and efficiently. It optimizes the warehouse operations and increases throughput.
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A Case Study of Decision Support System and Warehouse Management System Integration
Alparslan Sari (University of Delaware, USA) and Ismail Butun (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden & Konya Food and Agriculture University, Turkey & Royal University of Technology, Sweden)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7468-3.ch006
Abstract
A warehouse is an indispensable part of the logistics. A warehouse management system (WMS) is designed to improve efficiency in warehouses to increase their throughput and potential. The rise of IoT and its commercialization enabled ‘smart things' to be widely adopted by hobbyists and companies. Cheap sensors and smart devices triggered better automation opportunities. Many devices and sensors that are being deployed in the industry and warehousing are affected by this trend. A well-designed WMS is needed to connect devices and humans in a heterogenous warehouse environment. This chapter introduces a prototype of a WMS powered by a decision support system (DSS) based on real-life requirements. In order to have fast, reliable, and efficient decision making in warehousing, the importance of employing DSS in the WMS is emphasized. Warehouse-related IoT technology is briefly introduced, and its security considerations are discussed thoroughly. The main contribution of this chapter is to show how warehouse operations can be modeled in business process model notation and executed in a DSS.
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Chapter 5
Spatial Data Infrastructures
Web Map Service, a software interface specification published by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The specification defines how software clients should formulate queries to compliant map servers, and how those servers should behave and respond.
Published in Chapter: Spatial Data Infrastructures; From: Handbook of Research on Geoinformatics
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Web Map Servers Data Formats
Web Map Service. The latest available version of the WMS specification is 1.3.0 and it is also available as ISO 19128 since 2005.
Published in Chapter: Web Map Servers Data Formats; From: Handbook of Research on Geoinformatics
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