Optimizing the storage assignment in a warehouse served by milkrun logistics

Optimizing the storage assignment in a warehouse served by milkrun logistics

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Article ID: iaor20116485
Volume: 133
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 312
End Page Number: 318
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Journal: International Journal of Production Economics
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Keywords: logistics, order picking, warehouse management
Abstract:

This paper addresses the problem of storage assignment in a warehouse characterized by multi‐command picking and served by milkrun logistics. In such a logistic system, vehicles circulate between the warehouse and the production facilities of the plant according to a pre‐defined schedule, often with multiple cycles (routes) serving different departments. We assume that a request probability can be assigned to each item and each cycle, which leads to a special case of the correlated storage assignment problem. A MIP model is proposed for finding a class‐based storage policy that minimizes the order cycle time, the average picking effort, or a linear combination of these two criteria. Computational experiments show that our approach can achieve an up to 36–38% improvement in either criterion compared to the classical COI‐based strategy.

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