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 …

Warehouses have always been an essential part of supply chains, but despite their
fundamental role they were not seen as especially mission critical. With the advent of e …

Order picking is the most expensive and labor-intensive warehouse activity. The objective of
the order picking problem (OPP) is to collect the items on the pick list in a sequence that …

In order to improve the picking efficiency of warehouses, shorten the time cost and promote
the development of the logistics industry, this study analyzes the routing strategies in …

Warehouse order picking is a critical operation for every supply chain because of its direct
influence on customer satisfaction and the high time investment that is usually required for …

Many online retailers apply scattered (or mixed-shelves) storage in the picking areas of their
warehouses. Instead of keeping unit loads together, individual pieces of stock keeping units …

Fast delivery is one of the most popular services in e-commerce retail. It consists in shipping
the items ordered on-line in short times. Customer orders in this segment come with …

Ratliff and Rosenthal state that their dynamic programming algorithm for optimal picker
routing has linear complexity in the number of aisles. Indeed, solving the dynamic program …

Order picking is a crucial operation in warehouses that significantly impacts overall
efficiency and profitability. This study addresses the dynamic order picking problem, a …

We present a new modeling approach for the single-picker routing problem with scattered
storage (SPRP-SS) for order picking in warehouses. The SPRP-SS assumes that an article …