SMART WAREHOUSING ITS FUTURE ENDEAVOURS, CHALLENGES AND SOLUTION

Abstract

With the help of this paper, we explore the potential of smart warehousing as a cornerstone of modern supply chain optimization. With this we aim to analyse the future trajectories of smart warehousing, by investigating the anticipated advancements, the root causes of implementation challenges, and present practical solutions by examining both the technological innovation on the horizon and the structural, economic, and organizational challenges that impede their implementation. Using the insights from case studies, literature review, global industry practices, this paper identifies root cause and their solution for a better implementation of smart warehousing in future for global and emerging markets, policy framework, and workforce development. Intelligent warehouses seek to create a higher level of overall service quality, productivity, and efficiency of the warehouse at reduced costs and failures. Over the past few years, various studies have suggested and debated various types of intelligent warehouses, established major challenges, and suggested multiple solution directions for dealing with these challenges. The aim of this article is to recognize, assess, and consolidate relevant studies discussing how to design smart warehouses and move towards these recent forms of warehouses. We used a systematic literature review (SLR) protocol to pick primary studies. The SLR led to the discovery of the areas where smart warehouses are utilized, major reasons for using smart warehouses, existing unique features of smart warehouses, adopted technologies currently used to achieve smart warehouses, and challenges and plans for switching to smart warehouses. To the best of our knowledge, no SLR paper has not been published before on smart warehouses, and hence, this is research in time since companies are currently adopting smart warehouses.