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 …

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 …

Storage location and order picking are two interdependent problems arising in warehouse
planning traditionally solved independently. We introduce and model the integrated storage …

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 …

Warehouse order picking activities are among the ones that impact the most the bottom lines
of warehouses. They are known to often account for more than half of the total warehousing …

Majority of previous studies on optimization of warehouse order picking lack real-world
application and overlook complexities such as varying items' weight, workload balance, and …

Omnichannel retailers are reinventing stores to meet the growing demand of the online
channel. Several retailers now use stores as supporting distribution centers to offer quicker …

This study illustrates the relevance and importance of incorporating safety constraints, picker
blocking, and vertical travel due to high level storage locations when developing order …

This paper outlines an integrated order picking system (OPS) design procedure for the
optimization of manual picking activities and shows its practical application by means of a …

Literature has shown expressive demands for Picking Optimization Methods (POMs) that are
better suited to the manual picking systems and Warehouses (WAs). There are still many …