The boom of e-commerce in the globe in recent years has expedited the expansion of fulfillment infrastructures by e-retailers. While e-retailers are building more warehouses to offer faster delivery service than ever, the associated fulfillment costs have skyrocketed over the past decade. In...

Cooperatively owned cotton warehouses have unique inventory management issues. Unlike many other agricultural commodities, cotton is stored and marketed on an identity preserved basis. Unlike other warehouses which are continuously replenished, cotton warehouses are loaded once a year then...

Customer order response time and system throughput capacity are key performance measures in warehouses, which depend strongly on the storage strategies deployed. One popular strategy is to split inventory into a bulk storage and a pick stock, or forward-reserve (FR) storage. Managers often use a...

Purpose: This research paper aims to create an environment which enables robots to learn from humans by algorithms of Computer Vision and Machine Learning for object detection and gripping. The proposed concept transforms manual picking to highly automated picking performed by robots....