Throughput analysis for order picking system with multiple pickers and aisle congestion considerations

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1661-1672

  Pan, Jason Chao Hsien ^a   Wu, Ming Hung ^a  

^a TAKMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aisle congestion; Multi picker operations; Order picking; Queueing network; Warehouse management

Indexed keywords

AISLE CONGESTION; APPROXIMATION METHODS; APPROXIMATION MODEL; APPROXIMATION TECHNIQUES; CLOSED QUEUEING NETWORK; DIFFERENT SIZES; MULTI-PICKER OPERATIONS; ORDER PICKING; ORDER SIZE; REAL-WORLD APPLICATION; ROUTING POLICIES; SIMULATION MODEL; STORAGE POLICIES; THROUGHPUT ANALYSIS; THROUGHPUT TIME; TRAVEL DISTANCE; WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT; WAREHOUSING SYSTEMS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; QUEUEING NETWORKS; RATING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THROUGHPUT;

WAREHOUSES;

EID: 81555202404     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2011.09.022     Document Type: Article

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