E-commerce retailers face the challenge to assemble large numbers of time-critical picking
orders each consisting of just a few order lines with low order quantities. Traditional picker-to …

Warehouses deliver labor-intensive services to customers. Underperformance may result in
high costs and unsatisfied customer demand. New market developments force warehouses …

Market trends such as globalisation, increasing customer expectations, expensive industrial
land and high labour costs cause a need for efficient order picking systems in practice …

To reduce unproductive picker walking in traditional picker-to-parts warehousing systems,
automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are used to support human order pickers. In an AGV …

Artificial lighting is a constant companion in everyday private and working life, influencing
visibility in interior spaces as well as outdoors. In recent years, new technical solutions have …

This study aimed to resolve a real-world traffic problem in a large-scale plant. Autonomous
vehicle systems (AVSs), which are designed to use multiple vehicles to transfer materials …

Warehouses are an inevitable component in any supply chain and a vividly investigated
object of research. Much attention, however, is absorbed by warehousing systems dedicated …

Order Batching is a family of optimization problems related to the process of picking items in
a warehouse as part of supply chain management. Problems classified into this category are …

In this work we investigate the problem of order batching and picker routing in storage areas.
These are labour and capital intensive problems, often responsible for a substantial share of …

This paper proposes a new metaheuristic routing algorithm for the minimization of the travel
distance of pickers in manual warehouses. The algorithm is based on the ant colony …