The effect of worker learning and forgetting on storage reassignment decisions in order picking systems

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 653-662

  Grosse, Eric H ^a   Glock, Christoph H ^a   Jaber, Mohamad Y ^b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forgetting; Human factors; Learning; Order picking; Storage assignment; Warehousing

Indexed keywords

FORGETTING; LEARNING; ORDER PICKING; STORAGE ASSIGNMENT; WAREHOUSING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAREHOUSES;

LOGISTICS;

EID: 84886301501     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2013.09.013     Document Type: Article

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