Routing order pickers in a warehouse with a middle aisle
By Kees Jan Roodbergen, René M. B. M. de Koster. European Journal of Operational Research, 2001
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This paper considers a parallel aisle warehouse, where order pickers can change aisles at the ends of every aisle and also at a cross aisle halfway along the aisles. An algorithm is presented that can find shortest order picking tours in this type of warehouses. The algorithm is applicable in warehouse situations with up to three aisle changing possibilities. Average tour length is compared for warehouses with and without a middle aisle. It appears that in many cases the average order picking time can be decreased significantly by adding a middle aisle to the layout.
Subfields: Building and Construction, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
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- Order batching in walk-and-pick order picking systems (2008, methodology): “To explore this opportunity, we changed the tie-breaking strategy in the NTS heuristic by selecting the largest combined order size as in Rosenwein (1996). Another possible change is to select the pair of orders with the largest combined order size in the top 10% of the total time savings list.”