Customizing Smart Warehouse Management for Large Scale Production Industries

Abstract

Rapid changes in the level of digitalization have changed manufacturing and production industries during our lifetime. Several industries have explored the extent to which these changes can be utilized to optimize supply chain processes and increase sustainability – they have achieved success in implementation. The energy industry, being one of the world’s largest and most financially consuming industries, is yet to benefit from such work as it has not been prioritized or investigated thoroughly. This paper will offer specification criteria for energy companies’ implementation of smart warehouse management systems (SWM). This will be done on the basis of a literature review on warehouse management (WM), warehouse management systems (WMS), and Industry 4.0 technologies.