The effect of worker learning on manual order picking processes

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 170, Issue , 2015, Pages 882-890

  Grosse, Eric H ^a   Glock, Christoph H ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human factors; Learning; Order picking; Picker to parts systems; Warehousing

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; LEARNING; LEARNING RATES; LOGISTICS PROCESS; ORDER PICKING; PLANNING MODELS; REAL-WORLD; WAREHOUSING;

WAREHOUSES;

EID: 84980053551     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2014.12.018     Document Type: Article

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