E-commerce retailers face the challenge to assemble large numbers of time-critical picking
orders each consisting of just a few order lines with low order quantities. Traditional picker-to …

Warehouses deliver labor-intensive services to customers. Underperformance may result in
high costs and unsatisfied customer demand. New market developments force warehouses …

Order picking is a key process in supply chains and a determinant of business success in
many industries. Order picking is still performed manually by human operators in most …

Market trends such as globalisation, increasing customer expectations, expensive industrial
land and high labour costs cause a need for efficient order picking systems in practice …

Warehousing has been traditionally viewed as a non-value-adding activity but in recent
years a number of new developments have meant that supply chain logistics have become …

In a supply chain, warehousing function is very critical as it acts as a node in linking the
material flows between the supplier and customer. In today's competitive market …

Warehouses are an inevitable component in any supply chain and a vividly investigated
object of research. Much attention, however, is absorbed by warehousing systems dedicated …

The advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is expected to deeply change several aspects
of the manufacturing industry. Among them, the logistics and supply chain activities will be …

Abstract Buy-Online-Pickup-in-Store (BOPS) retail services have gained increasing
popularity as they offer benefits for both customers and retailers in omni-channel retailing …

This paper proposes an approximation model based on queuing network theory to analyze
the impact of order batching and picking area zoning on the mean order throughput time in a …