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 order picking systems are still prevalent ...

This article focuses on the integration of order batching and picker scheduling decisions while taking into account two objectives that have been considered in literature, namely minimization both total travel time to collect all items makespan pickers. integrated problem not only occurs naturally wave picking systems which latest orders becomes key performance metric, but also arises when ther...

The power of warehousing system to rapidly respond to customer demands participates an important function in the success of supply chain. Before picking the customer orders, effectively consolidating orders into batches can significantly speed the product movement within a warehouse. There is considerable product movement within a warehouse; the warehousing costs can be reduced by even a small ...

Marcus et al. (2011) describe using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) systems utilizing crowds for database sorts and joins. Crowdsourcing activities for these types of queries are typical costly in order to ensure accuracy and reliability. The authors present an interface for optimizing these functions in order to determine cost-effectiveness of various methods (simple join, naïve batching, and...

 Building a Transparent Batching Layer for Storm Matthias J. Sax, Malu Castellanos HP Laboratories HPL-2013-69 streaming data, distributed streaming system, batching, performance, optimization Storm is a distributed intra-node-parallel stream processing system built for very low latency processing. One major drawback of Storm is its relatively low throughput. In order to increase Storm's throu...

An order batching policy determines how orders are combined to form batches. Previous studies on order batching policy focused primarily on classic manual warehouses, and its effect on pick-and-pass systems has rarely been discussed. Pick-and-pass systems, a commonly used warehousing installation for small to medium-sized items, play a key role in managing a supply chain efficiently because the...

A bucket brigade strategy allows workloads in warehouses to be distributed with a minimal level of managerial planning and oversight. However, the variability and uncertainty of the pick locations within a particular order or batch often results in picker blocking and subsequent losses in productivity. This study formulates an order batching model for robust blocking control of dynamic bucket b...