Warehousing in the e-commerce era: A survey

N Boysen, R De Koster, F Weidinger - European Journal of Operational …, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Designing efficient order picking systems by combining planning problems: State-of-the-art classification and review

T Van Gils, K Ramaekers, A Caris… - European journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Warehouses deliver labor-intensive services to customers. Underperformance may result in
high costs and unsatisfied customer demand. New market developments force warehouses …

A literature review of smart warehouse operations management

L Zhen, H Li - Frontiers of Engineering Management, 2022 - Springer
E-commerce, new retail, and other changes have highlighted the requirement of high
efficiency and accuracy in the logistics service. As an important section in logistics and …

Increasing order picking efficiency by integrating storage, batching, zone picking, and routing policy decisions

T Van Gils, K Ramaekers, K Braekers, B Depaire… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
In order to differentiate from competitors in terms of customer service, warehouses accept
late orders while providing delivery in a quick and timely way. This trend leads to a reduced …

[HTML][HTML] Order batching problems: Taxonomy and literature review

EG Pardo, S Gil-Borrás, A Alonso-Ayuso… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Order Batching is a family of optimization problems related to the process of picking items in
a warehouse as part of supply chain management. Problems classified into this category are …

Tabu search heuristics for the order batching problem in manual order picking systems

S Henn, G Wäscher - European Journal of Operational Research, 2012 - Elsevier
In a manual order picking system, order pickers walk or ride through a distribution
warehouse in order to collect items requested by (internal or external) customers. In order to …

Metaheuristics for order batching and sequencing in manual order picking systems

S Henn, V Schmid - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2013 - Elsevier
Order picking involves the retrieval of articles from their storage locations in order to satisfy
customer requests. A major issue in manual order picking systems is the transformation and …

The online integrated order picking and delivery considering Pickers' learning effects for an O2O community supermarket

J Zhang, F Liu, J Tang, Y Li - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The online-to-offline (O2O) community supermarket is currently a popular O2O business
model in China. Owing to the small lot-size, high frequency, time-sensitive, and dynamic …

Joint order batching and picker routing in single and multiple-cross-aisle warehouses using cluster-based tabu search algorithms

O Kulak, Y Sahin, ME Taner - Flexible services and manufacturing journal, 2012 - Springer
The organization of order picking operations is one of the most critical issues in warehouse
management. In this paper, novel tabu search (TS) algorithms integrated with a novel …

An integrated online pick-to-sort order batching approach for managing frequent arrivals of B2B e-commerce orders under both fixed and variable time-window …

KH Leung, CKM Lee, KL Choy - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2020 - Elsevier
The emergence of e-commerce marketplace, especially the business-to-business (B2B) e-
commerce sector, has created a vast market opportunity for retailers and logistics service …