Order picking in carousel systems under the nearest item heuristic

Order picking in carousel systems under the nearest item heuristic

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Article ID: iaor20023237
Country: United States
Volume: 15
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 135
End Page Number: 164
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Journal: Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences
Authors: , ,
Keywords: order picking
Abstract:

A carousel is a computer-controlled warehousing system, which is widely used to store small- and medium-sized goods. One of the most important performance characteristics of such systems is the pick time of an order, which mostly depends on the travel time of the carousel. In this article, we consider some reasonable heuristics for order picking. In particular, we establish properties of the Nearest Item (NI) heuristic. This one is frequently used in practice. We derive tight upper bounds for the travel time under the NI heuristic and closed-form expressions for its mean and variance. We also present a simple two-moment approximation for the distribution of the travel time. In addition, we find the mean, variance, and distribution for the number of turns.

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