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
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
10419/209194

Classification
Management
Subject
acceleration
autonomy
warehousing
order picking

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Cragg, Tony
Sauvage, Thierry
Haouari, Mohammed
Chraibi, Sarrah
Houssaini, Oussama El Khalil
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
epubli GmbH
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2018

DOI
doi:10.15480/882.1782
Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:gbv:830-88223172
Last update
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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

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