The impact of order batching and picking area zoning on order picking system performance

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 480-490

  Yu, Mengfei ^a   de Koster, René B M ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Applied probability; Queueing; Simulation; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; LAND USE; QUEUEING THEORY; ZONING;

APPLIED PROBABILITY; APPROXIMATION MODELS; ARBITRARY ORDERS; ORDER PICKINGS; ORDER-BATCHING; QUEUEING; QUEUING NETWORK THEORIES; REAL APPLICATIONS; SECOND MOMENTS; SELECTION PROCESS; SERVICE TIME; SIMULATION; SORTING PROCESS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; THROUGHPUT TIME;

WAREHOUSES;

EID: 63349096041     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.09.011     Document Type: Article

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