... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Behavioural operations Warehousing Order picking Human factors Worker autonomy Job assignment In today's competitive business environment, warehouses need to operate as efficiently as possible. They have to respond to logistic trends such as fast...

...Charles G. Petersen; Charles Siu; Daniel R. Heiser Purpose With the current interest in all aspects of supply chain management, the demands on warehousing have changed significantly within the past few years. In an attempt to meet this challenge, warehouses have become more concerned with proper...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Distribution management Warehousing Distribution operations Outsourcing Operations management Several researchers have been studying the most important challenges that European logistics companies must take up in this millennium (for example...

... 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...

... that some commonly used inventory models are quite robust to stochastic operating parameters in the unique/rework environment. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Computer simulation Inventory control Maintenance Warehousing The problem of determining optimal inventory levels in a repair/rework...

...Charles G. Petersen, II Order picking, the assembly of a customer’s order from items in storage, is an essential link in the supply chain and is the major cost component of warehousing. The critical issue is to simultaneously reduce the cost and increase the speed of the order picking activity...

... and accordingly, Zp only depends on the characteristics of the single items to be picked in the picking orders. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Order picking Performance measurement Systems design Warehousing Zero‐based analysis Order picking is a very common activity taking place in many different...