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Order Batching in Order Picking Warehouses: A Survey of Solution Approaches [PDF]

open access: possible, 2012
Order picking is a warehouse function dealing with the retrieval of articles from their storage location in order to satisfy a given demand specified by customer orders. Of all warehouse operations, order picking is considered to include the most cost-intensive ones. Even though there have been different attempts to automate the picking process, manual
Sebastian Henn   +2 more
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Metaheuristics for order batching and sequencing in manual order picking systems [PDF]

open access: possibleComputers & Industrial Engineering, 2013
Order picking involves the retrieval of articles from their storage locations in order to satisfy customer requests. A major issue in manual order picking systems is the transformation and consolidation of customer orders into picking orders (order batching).
Sebastian Henn, Verena Schmid
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Order Batching Problem in O2O Supermarkets

2021
With the development of omni-channel retailing, the O2O retailing combining traditional offline with online channels brings both opportunities and challenges to conventional supermarkets. As an important factor for supermarkets’ online service capabilities, order picking has become a critical point for the survival and development of O2O supermarkets ...
Kewei Zhou, Kexin Gao, Shandong Mou
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Joint order batching and order picking in warehouse operations

International Journal of Production Research, 2005
Traditional warehousing focuses on improving efficiency within the warehouse, and while this is certainly of great importance, it does not necessarily translate directly into better response to customers and supply chain partners. This paper reconsiders the traditional warehousing problems of batching and picking orders with respect not only to ...
J. Won, S. Olafsson *
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Order batching in walk-and-pick order picking systems

International Journal of Production Research, 2008
This paper investigates the order-batching problem both as a theoretical problem, including its special variants, and as a practical problem, with possible heuristic solution procedures. It shows that certain special cases or variants of the order batching problem are solvable, while other cases of the problem are NP-hard.
Y. A. Bozer, J. W. Kile
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DYNAMIC VISIT-ORDER RULES FOR BATCH-SERVICE POLLING

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 2003
We explore visit-order policies in nonsymmetric polling systems with switch-in and switch-out times, where service is in batches of unlimited size. We concentrate on so-called “Hamiltonian tour” policies in which, in order to give a fair treatment to the various users, the server attends every nonempty queue exactly once during each round of ...
van der Wal, J., Yechiali, U.
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Optimization of Batch Ordering under Deterministic Variable Demand

Management Science, 1972
We consider the problem of the optimal ordering schedule to satisfy a given demand pattern over a finite planning horizon when ordering must be in batches of size Q > 1, with and without “setup” cost. A dynamic programming model is constructed. The number of stages are minimized through the characterization of a “complete” set of periods in which ...
Salah E. Elmaghraby, Vishwas Y. Bawle
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The Optimal Inventory Policy for Batch Ordering

Operations Research, 1965
We consider a single product dynamic inventory problem in which the demands in each period are independent and identically distributed random variables. There is a constant lead time, a discount factor 0 ≦ α ≦ 1, a unit ordering cost c and an expected holding and penalty cost function L(·) for which −[c(l − α)y + L(y)] is unimodal, and total ...
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Dynamic order batching in bucket brigade order picking systems with consecutive batch windows and non-identical pickers

International Journal of Production Research, 2019
The blocking mitigation mechanism contained in a batching and sequencing model improves order picking performance in bucket brigade order picking systems by adjusting the batch formation in a given...
Henokh Yernias Fibrianto, Soondo Hong
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Order acceptance and scheduling with batch delivery

Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2017
We study an order acceptance and scheduling model with identical parallel machines and batch delivery.The objective is to optimize the tradeoff between maximum lead time and total cost.We propose two approximation algorithms for the model. We study an order acceptance and scheduling problem with batch delivery in a supply chain consisting of a ...
Dakui Jiang, Jiayin Tan, Bo Li
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