Methods for Design and Management of a Fast-Pick Area in a Warehouse
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The fast-pick area of a warehouse is used to fill orders for the most popular items in a facility. In this paper, buffers are placed in each zone of the fast-pick area to allow pickers to work ahead. Heuristics are described to assign SKUs to the zones and then to sequence the orders for picking so that the full benefits of the buffers can be obtained. The performance of the system with the heuristics is shown to produce better throughput per worker than the same system with random assignments or a traditional system where orders are picked in waves.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008