Class-based storage-location assignment to minimise pick travel distance

International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 247-265

  Muppani, Venkata Reddy ^a   Adil, Gajendra Kumar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Branch and bound; Class based storage; Dynamic programming; Storage classes; Storage planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 48249092686     PISSN: 13675567     EISSN: 1469848X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13675560701690489     Document Type: Article

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