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DISTANCE APPROXIMATIONS FOR ROUTING MANUAL PICKERS IN A WAREHOUSE

RANDOLPH W. HALL Institute of Transportation Studies, Richmond Field Station, University of California, Richmond, California, 94804
Pages 76-87 | Received 01 Aug 1991, Published online: 31 May 2007
 
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Abstract

This paper evaluates and compares strategies for routing a manual picker through a simple warehouse. It expands on previous work, in which optimization algorithms were developed, by deriving equations which relate route length to warehouse attributes. Several rules of thumb are derived for selection of order picking strategies and optimization of warehouse shape.

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