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Design of a class based storage picker to product order picking system

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In recent years the increase in time-based competition and the growth of e-commerce have put pressure on managers to reduce the costs of warehouse design and management activities. This paper presents a new integrated approach to support the decision making process in optimising a picker to part, forward-reserve, less than unit load order picking system. An analytical model and a multi-parametric dynamic model to quickly estimate the travelled distance during a picking cycle are introduced. The factorial analysis of several what-if scenarios reveals which factors and combinations of factors are the most critical in affecting the picking system’s response.

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  1. Department of Industrial Mechanical Plants, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Riccardo Manzini, Mauro Gamberi & Alberto Regattieri

  2. Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

    Alessandro Persona

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Manzini, R., Gamberi, M., Persona, A. et al. Design of a class based storage picker to product order picking system. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 32, 811–821 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-005-0377-2

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