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 …

At the core of every high-performing warehouse is an efficient order picking (OP) system. To
attain such a system, policy choices should be carefully aligned with subjects responsible for …

ABSTRACT A literature review on the order picking process in warehouses is presented for
delineating the trends in time of research topics in this field. A total of 269 journal papers …

With the rapid development of e-commerce, the orders processed in B2C warehouses are
characterised by heterogeneous and small volume. The traditional storage assignment …

An intensified competition forces warehouses to handle more orders in shorter time
windows. This complicates the timely retrieval of these customer orders. Planning order …

Congestion always occurs in the multi-pickers picker-to-parts picking systems. In this paper,
we propose a multi-pickers-based scattered storage location assignment (MPSSLA) …

Keeping the workload balanced between zones is critical to the performance of zone-picking
systems. However, with zone-picking systems, even if they are designed with workload …

For the logistics environment, multi-UAV algorithms have been studied for the purpose of
order picking in warehouses. However, modern order picking adopts static order picking …

This paper addresses the challenge of preventing blocking in seru production system (SPS),
in which seru is a new-type manufacturing mode deriving from Japanese manufacturing …

In a mass customization environment, customer demands may change dramatically, which
challenges conventional production systems. Seru production system (SPS) is a key to deal …