Designing the layout structure of manual order picking areas in warehouses

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1032-1045

  Roodbergen, Kees Jan ^a   Sharp, Gunter P ^b   Vis, Iris F A ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c VU University   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distance estimation; Order picking; Routing; Warehousing

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE ESTIMATION; ORDER PICKING; ROUTING; ROUTING POLICIES; WAREHOUSING;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 51149085030     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170802167639     Document Type: Article

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