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 …

[HTML][HTML] 50 years of warehousing research—An operations research perspective

N Boysen, R de Koster - European Journal of Operational Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Warehouses have always been an essential part of supply chains, but despite their
fundamental role they were not seen as especially mission critical. With the advent of e …

Practical factors in order picking planning: state-of-the-art classification and review

S Vanheusden, T van Gils, K Ramaekers… - … Journal of Production …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

[HTML][HTML] A review on integrated scheduling and outbound vehicle routing problems

L Berghman, Y Kergosien, JC Billaut - European Journal of Operational …, 2023 - Elsevier
Production scheduling and vehicle routing are both well-studied problems in literature. A
coordinated approach that does not solve these interrelated problems sequentially improves …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a conceptualisation of Order Picking 4.0

S Winkelhaus, EH Grosse, S Morana - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Order picking is a key task in almost all supply chains and has a significant effect on
operational efficiency of warehouses. Although most companies still rely on manual order …

In pursuit of humanised order picking planning: methodological review, literature classification and input from practice

T De Lombaert, K Braekers, R De Koster… - … Journal of Production …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
At the core of every high-performing warehouse is an efficient order picking (OP) system. To
attain such a system, policy choices should be carefully aligned with subjects responsible for …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on the traveling salesman problem and its variants in a warehousing context

S Bock, S Bomsdorf, N Boysen, M Schneider - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
With the advent of e-commerce and its fast-delivery expectations, efficiently routing pickers
in warehouses and distribution centers has received renewed interest. The processes and …

Automated order picking systems and the links between design and performance: a systematic literature review

Y Jaghbeer, R Hanson… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
With new market developments and e-commerce, there is an increased use of and interest
in automation for order picking. This paper presents a systematic review and content …

Robotic mobile fulfillment systems: A survey on recent developments and research opportunities

ÍR da Costa Barros, TP Nascimento - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
With the advancement of the autonomous mobile robots applied to Warehouses and the
creation of the Robotic Mobile Fulfillment System after the market implementation of the Kiva …