Order picking has long been identified as the most labour-intensive and costly activity for
almost every warehouse; the cost of order picking is estimated to be as much as 55% of the …

This paper presents a detailed survey of the research on warehouse design, performance
evaluation, practical case studies, and computational support tools. This and an earlier …

In this paper we present a reference framework and a classification of warehouse design
and control problems. Based on this framework, we review the existing literature on …

This study aims to analyze the optimal warehouse layout for agricultural and food collecting
centers that help small–medium farms to trade in the short food supply chain, by choosing …

This work presents the effect, in terms of travel distance and material handling time
reductions, of an optimal rather than a uniform item allocation in one-block picking …

The decision problems in the design and control of warehousing order picking process
include layout design, storage assignment, routing, and order batching policies. Previous …

Warehouse design and operation plays an integral role in the whole supply chain system.
For this reason, many researchers have dealt with these types of problems not only by …

In the early 1970s the first modern warehouses were established in the US and Europe.
Currently, the world's largest owner, manager and developer, the ProLogis group, owns or …

The main aim of this paper is to estimate material handling times reductions in one-block
unit-load warehouse organised with an optimal slot-code allocation, rather than with a …

Throughput in manual order picking systems with narrow aisles suffers from congestion as
pickers cannot pass each other. Only few models incorporate congestion but they have very …