Design and control of warehouse order picking: A literature review

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Research on warehouse operation: A comprehensive review

In this paper we present a reference framework and a classification of warehouse design and control problems Based on this framework, we review the existing literature on warehousing systems and indicate important gaps In particular, we emphasize the need for design oriented studies, as opposed to the strong analysis oriented research on isolated subproblems that seems to be dominant in the current literature

Warehouse design and control: framework and literature review

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Warehouse design and control: Framework and literature review

This paper evaluates and compares strategies for routing a manual picker through a simple warehouse. It expands on previous work, in which optimization algorithms were developed, by deriving equations which relate route length to warehouse attributes. Several rules of thumb are derived for selection of order picking strategies and optimization of warehouse shape.

Distance approximations for routing manual pickers in a warehouse

A classical order picking problem is the case where items have to be picked from both sides of an aisle and the picker cannot reach items on both sides without changing position. Hence the picker must cross the aisle one or more times. An efficient optimal algorithm is developed and shown to yield policies with up to 30% savings in travel time over commonly used policies. It is also shown that, for most practical aisle widths, it is significantly more efficient to pick both sides of the aisle in the same pass (a traversal policy) rather than pick one side and then pick the other side (a return policy) unless the pick densities are greater than 50%. All the algorithms presented here can be implemented in real time on a microcomputer.

M. Goetschalckx

Papers

Order Picking In An Aisle