Order picking under random and turnover-based storage policies in fishbone aisle warehouses

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 283-300

  Çelk, Melh ^a   Süral, Haldun ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

fishbone aisles; order picking; turnover based storage; Warehousing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; FISHBONE; ORDER PICKING; ORDER PICKING PROBLEM; POLYNOMIAL-TIME; SIMPLE HEURISTICS; TURNOVER-BASED STORAGE; WAREHOUSING;

POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; WAREHOUSES;

DESIGN;

EID: 84890414407     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0740817X.2013.768871     Document Type: Article

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