Article ID: | iaor201111469 |
Volume: | 39 |
Issue: | 7 |
Start Page Number: | 1661 |
End Page Number: | 1672 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2012 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Pan Jason Chao-Hsien, Wu Ming-Hung |
Keywords: | simulation: applications |
Most of previous studies in picker‐to‐parts warehousing systems investigated only single‐picker operations and are therefore adequate to evaluate order picking efficiency by travel distance as aisle congestion never takes place in such systems. In real world applications, the congestion inevitably occurs when a system has multiple pickers working together within the same region. This paper presents an approximation method based on a