Storage assignment problem with travel distance and blocking considerations for a picker-to-part order picking system

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 527-535

  Pan, Jason Chao Hsien ^a   Shih, Po Hsun ^b   Wu, Ming Hung ^a  

^a TAKMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b VANUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Multi picker operations; Order picking; Storage assignment policy; Warehouse management

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION METHODS; HEURISTIC POLICIES; KEY OPERATIONS; MULTI-PICKER OPERATIONS; ORDER FULFILLMENT; ORDER PICKING; SIMULATION MODEL; STORAGE ASSIGNMENT; TRAVEL DISTANCE; TRAVEL TIME; WAITING-TIME; WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; QUEUEING NETWORKS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

WAREHOUSES;

EID: 84855786317     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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