- Title
- Improving order picking efficiency through better warehouse design
- Creator
- Boland, Natashia; Duane, E. J. E.; Gan, H.; Helding, M.
- Relation
- 18th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research. Proceedings of the 18th National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research (Perth, W.A. 26-28 September, 2005) p. 32-39
- Relation
- http://www.asor.org.au
- Publisher
- Australian Society for Operations Research
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2005
- Description
- Efficient inventory management is an ongoing issue of key importance in many areas of industry. An important aspect of inventory management involves the storage of stock in a warehouse, and the effect that product location within the facility has on warehouse operations. In this talk we discuss a general procedure that allocates products to a storage location within an existing order-picking warehouse using available product order history. The aim of the procedure is to improve order-picking efficiency measured by the time it takes to fill the orders. We consider several approaches, presenting two greedy heuristic algorithms that exploit important features of an order history. Simulated annealing is used to further improve these solutions. We discuss the performance of these methods on real data from an order-picking warehouse, and evaluate them for a series of different order history timeframes.
- Subject
- warehouse design; efficiency; order picking; inventory management
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/939440
- Identifier
- uon:12809
- Language
- eng
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