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 …

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 …

Assembly systems (ASs) have moved into the era of mass customisation and Industry 4.0 (I4.
0). Mass customisation involves a shift from the production of high quantities of the same …

A warehouse covers a wide spectrum of operations for the distribution of goods in a supply
chain network. The advancement of technology and the changing global business …

This paper proposes a new metaheuristic routing algorithm for the minimization of the travel
distance of pickers in manual warehouses. The algorithm is based on the ant colony …

Motivated by recent technological advances in mobile robotics, this paper explores a novel
approach for warehouse order picking. In particular, this work considers two types of …

Order picking is a time-intensive and costly logistics process as it involves a high amount of
manual human work. Since order picking operations are repetitive by nature, it can be …

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 …

In a supply chain's order fulfilment process, it is often the warehouse that plays a central role
in making the right product available to the right customer at the right time. This paper aims …

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 …