Abstract: Mail order companies like Zalando or Amazon reported a significant increase regarding the number of incoming … (order pickers) who are employed on a large scale in order to enable a fast processing of the orders. However, due to limited … space, aisles are often very narrow in warehouses, and order pickers cannot pass or overtake each other. Thus, an order …

In manual order picking systems, order pickers walk or drive through a distribution warehouse in order to collect items … which are requested by (internal or external) customers. In order to perform these operations efficiently, it is usually … required that customer orders are combined into (more substantial) picking orders of limited size. The Order Batching Problem …

Background: Order picking is a critical activity in end-product warehouses, particularly using the picker … where the picking time was reduced by 57% compared to single-order strategy. Conclusions: The results showed that the …

dynamically. Effective order picking in warehouses has become a top concern given expectations for rapid delivery, a larger … picker routing and order batching, which have an important place in order picking. A genetic algorithm-based solution with … order points. It is found that the proposed solution methodology gives better results than traditional approaches …

Background: This paper aims to improve the overall performance of manual warehouse Order Picking (OP) processes by …

continuously developing new approaches for online order fulfillment and last-mile logistics. Further shortening lead times is … integrated order fulfillment in grocery retailing. We empirically identify decision-relevant costs for order processing in stores … and develop an approach for the evaluation of overall fulfillment costs. Our work considers the order assignment to …