o gather and consolidate thousands of customer orders in time to meet daily ship- ping schedules.How can such coordination be achieved? A Warehouse Management System (WMS) is a complex software package that helps manage inventory, storage locations, and the workforce, to ensure that customer orders are picked quickly, packed, and shipped. A typical WMS knows about every item in the warehouse, its physical dimensions, how it is packed by the vendor, all the storage locations in the warehouse, and their addresses and physical dimensions. With this knowledge, the...