...Thomas De Lombaert; Kris Braekers; René De Koster; Katrien Ramaekers Purpose Warehouses are under pressure to operate as efficiently as possible. In pursuit of attaining high efficiency in the order picking process, the warehouse manager must take several planning decisions, typically supported...

...Fabio Sgarbossa; Christoph H. Glock; Eric H. Grosse; Martina Calzavara; René de Koster Purpose In manual order picking systems, temporary workers are often employed to handle demand peaks. While this increases flexibility, it may hamper productivity, as they are usually unfamiliar...

... route. Kallina and Lynn (1976) show that COI performs better than popularity in canned food distribution warehouse with floor space divided into picking zones. Malmborg and Krishnakumar (1987) studied the optimality of COI when the order picker interleaves storage and retrieval in an order picking...

... that the absence of a back cross aisle also affected picking zone configuration. These results offer solutions to managers looking to implement improvements in distribution center operations. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Supply chain management Warehousing Order picking Heuristics It is essential...

...Charles G. Petersen, II Order picking, the activity by which a number of goods are retrieved from a warehousing system to satisfy a number of customer orders, is an essential link in the supply chain and is the major cost component of warehousing. The critical issue is to simultaneously reduce...

...Henrik Brynzér; Mats I. Johansson; Lars Medbo Presents a methodology useful when analysing the efficiency of order picking systems. The main feature of the analysis is the ability to compare different system designs. The methodology has earlier been applied mainly to assembly production systems...