• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.716-720
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• 2003

Order-picking process is one of the major operations in warehouses and distribution centers. In low-level picker-to-part system, picker usually combines orders (order batching) as much as possible so that the can pick a set of the combined orders at the same time. For midpoint routing policy, this paper develops an efficient order-batching algorithm based on cluster analysis. The algorithm is compared with a well known existing algorithm in terms of the total travel time and number of batches grouped. The test results show that the proposed heuristic performs better than the other.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.289-298
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• 2015

This paper analyses the best batch formations for order picking throughput in narrow-aisle order picking systems. Our analytical comparison finds that a high pick density variation leads to a heavy picker blocking. Simulation experiments show that a distance-based batching algorithm reduces picker blocking by decreasing the number of aisles visited and stabilizing the variation in number of picks per aisle by packing orders tightly, and that the solution quality and mechanism for determining the batch size dictated by the sorting strategy causes varying amounts of blocking. We conclude that combining a distance-based batching method with an appropriate batch sizing strategy will reduce picker blocking and shorten travel in narrow-aisle picking systems.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.136-146
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• 1992

Most of scheduling papers on FMS have been considered that the fabrication process, the machining process and the assembly process etc. are independent and the releasing, routing, dependent, batching, loading problem are treated separetely. In this paper, we discuss that the integrated scheduling problem which can be solved for efficient use. We combine two systems that each process system which in order to produce a product is treated dependently, the releasing and the routing problem are combined one system and we present the efficient flexible manufacturing system as including the alternate process.