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The Effect of Slot-Code Optimization in Warehouse Order Picking

A. Fumi,L. Scarabotti,M. Schiraldi

Published 2013 in International Journal of Engineering Business Management

ABSTRACT

This work presents the effect, in terms of travel distance and material handling time reductions, of an optimal rather than a uniform item allocation in one-block picking warehouses, both with and without the use of a simple picking heuristic. Since developing efficient product-location strategies represents a critical issue in Operations Management, due to the impact on warehouse performance in terms of both service level and operation costs, this paper focuses on an effective quantification of obtainable travel time reductions, obtaining a significant result for manufacturing companies aiming to determine the most appropriate material handling resource configuration. Building on previous work on the effect of slot-code optimization on travel times in single/dual command cycles, the authors broaden the scope to include the most general picking case, thus widening the range of applicability and realising former suggestions for future research.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2013

  • Venue

    International Journal of Engineering Business Management

  • Publication date

    2013-01-01

  • Fields of study

    Business, Engineering

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.5772/56803
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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