An evaluation of routing policies for order-picking operations in low-level picker-to-part system

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 42, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 3873-3889

  Hwang, H ^a   Oh, Y H ^a   Lee, Y K ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PICKER-TO-PART SYSTEMS; ROUTING POLICIES; STOCKING AISLES; TRAVEL DISTANCE MODELS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAREHOUSES;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 4944240916     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540410001696339     Document Type: Article

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