This paper studies an operational problem arising at a container terminal, consisting of scheduling a yard crane to carry out a set of container storage and retrieval requests in a single container block. The objective is to minimize the total travel time of the crane to carry out all requests....

The problem considered is that of forecasting demand for single-period products before the period starts. We study this problem for the case of a mail order apparel company that needs to order its products pre-season. The lack of historical demand data implies that other sources of data are...

Batching customer orders in a warehouse can result in considerable savings in order pickers’ travel distances. Many picker-to-parts warehouses have precedence constraints in picking a customer order. In this paper a joint order-batching and picker routing method is introduced to solve this...