Konferenzbeitrag
Running the machine faster: Acceleration, humans and warehousing
To reduce the lead-time, modern logistics seeks to respond faster by accelerating physical and information flows. However, what are the impacts on logistics workers of an ever-faster logic? The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between process acceleration and the autonomy of order pickers. The method is to use exploratory qualitative research, based on fifteen visits to different regional distribution centers (RDCs) in the retail supermarket sector. The contribution of this paper is to apply Rosa's (2013) social acceleration theory to the specific context of logistics warehousing and to demonstrate how speeding up order picking systems is a key driver of change that has an impact on worker autonomy.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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10419/209194
- Classification
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Management
- Subject
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acceleration
autonomy
warehousing
order picking
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Cragg, Tony
Sauvage, Thierry
Haouari, Mohammed
Chraibi, Sarrah
Houssaini, Oussama El Khalil
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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epubli GmbH
- (where)
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Berlin
- (when)
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2018
- DOI
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doi:10.15480/882.1782
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:gbv:830-88223172
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Konferenzbeitrag
Associated
- Cragg, Tony
- Sauvage, Thierry
- Haouari, Mohammed
- Chraibi, Sarrah
- Houssaini, Oussama El Khalil
- epubli GmbH
Time of origin
- 2018