Merschformann, Marius; Xie, Lin; Li, Hanyi - In: Logistics Research 11 (2018) 8, pp. 1-11
This paper deals with a new type of warehousing system, Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems (RMFS). In such systems, robots are sent to carry storage units, so-called 'pods,' from the inventory and bring them to human operators working at stations. At the stations, the items are picked according...