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Order Picking: A Survey of Planning Problems and Methods

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Order picking — as a warehouse function — is often considered to be critical for the public manifestation of a supply chain. Underperformance can result both in unsatisfactory customer service and in high cost. In this paper the author will give an overview of planning problems and corresponding methods which have been suggested in the literature for the reduction of cost and the improvement of customer service in picker-to-product systems. In particular, the following central issues will be addressed: item location, order batching, and picker routing.

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  1. Department of Business Economics — Management Science — Faculty of Economic Management, Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Universitaetsplatz 2, D-39106, Magdeburg, Germany

    Gerhard Wäscher

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  1. Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, RWTH Aachen, Templergraben 64, 52056, Aachen, Germany

    Harald Dyckhoff (Lehrstuhl für Unternehmenstheorie) (Lehrstuhl für Unternehmenstheorie)

  2. Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Dortmund, Vogelpothsweg 87, 44221, Dortmund, Germany

    Richard Lackes (Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik) (Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik)

  3. Fachbereich Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften Lehrstuhl für Produktion und Wirtschaftsinformatik, Universität Lüneburg, Scharnhorststraße 1, 21335, Lüneburg, Germany

    Joachim Reese

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Wäscher, G. (2004). Order Picking: A Survey of Planning Problems and Methods. In: Dyckhoff, H., Lackes, R., Reese, J. (eds) Supply Chain Management and Reverse Logistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24815-6_15

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