This article examines the effect of three process decisions (picking, storage, and routing) on order picker travel, which is a major cost component of order fulfillment. The authors use a simulation model based on the operations of a distribution center that is currently picking one order at a time, storing product in a haphazard or random fashion, and using a simplistic procedure for routing p...

This article aims to bring quantum computing robotics. A algorithm is developed minimize the distance traveled in warehouses and distribution centers where order picking applied. For this, a proof of concept proposed through Raspberry Pi 4, generating combinatorial optimization that saves travelled batch orders be made. In case computational need, robot will able parallelize part operations hyb...

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 considered in this paper deals...

Order picking deals with the retrieval of articles from their storage locations in order to satisfy customer requests. A major issue in manual order picking systems concerns of the transformation and consolidation of customer orders into picking orders (order batching). In practice, customer orders have to be completed by certain due dates in order to avoid delay in the shipment to customers or...

In the U.S.A., 70 percent of the manufactured cement and 43 percent of aggregates is used in Ready-Mixed Concrete (RMC) plants. So a material inventory control system is needed to form a consumption pattern for this material to optimize warehousing cost and ordering in RMC plants. Such a material inventory control system of batching plants could be applied as an approach for optimal estimation ...

Scalability is a key issue of on-line video service. Different methods have been proposed for the closed-loop video service, such as batching and patching. However, scalability itself has not been formally defined and the condition for a scalable system is not well studied yet. This paper studies scalability and the condition for scalable systems. It is found that when the arrival rate is acros...

In this paper, a mixed-integer linear programming model is proposed to integrate batch picking and distribution scheduling problems in order to optimize them simultaneously in an order picking warehouse. A tow-phase heuristic algorithm is presented to solve it in reasonable time. The first phase uses a genetic algorithm to evaluate and select permutations of the given set of customers. The seco...