| Article ID: | iaor20061921 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 219 |
| End Page Number: | 227 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2006 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Litvak Nelly |
| Keywords: | order picking |
A carousel is an automated ring-shaped warehousing system that rotates either direction bringing items to a picker. We obtain the limiting behaviour of the shortest rotation time and the number of steps before a turn, as well as approximate mean rotation time, for one large order with non-uniform items locations.