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 …

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 …

Transportation planning has been established as a key topic in the literature and social
production practices. An increasing number of researchers are studying vehicle routing …

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 …

To reduce unproductive picker walking in traditional picker-to-parts warehousing systems,
automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are used to support human order pickers. In an AGV …

ABSTRACT A literature review on the order picking process in warehouses is presented for
delineating the trends in time of research topics in this field. A total of 269 journal papers …

This paper investigates the effectiveness of designing warehouses to determine average
order picking time and travelled distance using a data mining technique. Order picking is a …

In the e-commerce era, efficient order fulfillment processes in distribution centers have
become a key success factor. One novel technology to streamline these processes is robot …

In this work we investigate the problem of order batching and picker routing in storage areas.
These are labour and capital intensive problems, often responsible for a substantial share of …