An Evaluation of Picking Routing Policies to Improve Warehouse Efficiency

This paper evaluates various routing policies (s-shape, largest gap, return and composite policies) and introduces a novel heuristic called Minimum Heuristic (MinH) to solve the picker routing problem. The performance of the routing policies and the MinH heuristic is validated by an experimental design, varying the number of aisles, locations per aisle and pick list size. The experimental results show the travel distance savings of MinH heuristic over routing policies, highlighting that for all of the instances, the MinH heuristic performs 14,3% better than the existing routing policies.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management

• Publication date

  2017-12-30

• Fields of study

  Business, Engineering, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.24867/ijiem-2017-4-123
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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