Matusiak, Marek; de Koster, René; Kroon, Leo; … - In: European Journal of Operational Research 236 (2014) 3, pp. 968-977
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...