Constantly growing customer requirements, increased international competitive pressure and rapid technological change require companies in almost all industries to offer a product range that is both rich in variants and cost-effective. However, as the number of variants increases, production systems are increasingly reaching the limits of their ability to maintain efficient production without adaptation mechanisms. In particular, material supply, the efficient supply of production resources with the right materials, at the right time and in the right quantity, is becoming increasingly complex in this context, as numerous different materials have to be provided at different locations.
For this reason, numerous technical innovations and alternative transportation concepts, such as automated guided vehicles, have been developed in recent years in order to handle the supply of materials efficiently. The multitude of transport alternatives for material supply often differ in numerous areas such as reliability, technically possible transport speed or transport costs in the operational area. This raises the question of the choice of the most advantageous means of transportation in different situations.
The aim of this work is therefore to carry out a structured literature search to identify and classify published articles in the field of material supply in manufacturing
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