Petersen, Charles G. - In: International Journal of Operations & Production Management 19 (1999) 10, pp. 1053-1064
Order picking, the activity by which a number of goods are retrieved from a warehousing system to satisfy a number of … customer orders, is an essential link in the supply chain and is the major cost component of warehousing. The critical issue is … are: evaluate various routing heuristics and an optimal routine in a volume‐based and random storage environment; compare …