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 …

In-house logistics activities are an essential part of any organisation as they improve
operations productivity and efficiency. In this context, agile decision-making raises the need …

Order picking is a key process in supply chains and a determinant of business success in
many industries. Order picking is still performed manually by human operators in most …

Warehouses are important nodes in almost every supply chain. Within warehouses, order
picking is a crucial task that is extremely time-and cost-intensive. While order picking …

Many tasks at industrial assembly workplaces still require manual work that includes a
variety of activities such as loading and unloading, pushing and pulling, and carrying tasks …

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 …

We present a methodology for an artificial neural network (ANN) based metamodeling of
simulation models in the special case when online decision making routines are invoked …

This paper reexamines the order picking process in a warehouse facing the challenges that
e-commerce brings about and which are characterised by a very large number of small …

Purpose This research investigates how to optimize storage location assignment to
decrease the order picking time and the waiting time of orders in the staging area of low …

Order picking is a labor-intensive and costly process in supply chains, which is performed
manually in most cases. Recently, picking robots have been developed which are capable …