Cooperation strategies for improving the performance of sequential zone-picking lines  

Oleh:

Ho, Ying-Chin ; Lin, Jian-Wei

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 14th Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Conference (APIEMS), 3-6 December 2013 Cebu, Philippines, page 1-8.
Topik: Distribution Warehouse; Cooperation Strategy; Sequential Zone-Picking
Fulltext: 3020.pdf (235.85KB)

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One major problem associated with sequential zone-picking lines is its inability to maintain workload-balance between zones. Some zones may be busy while other zones idle. This load-imbalance problem can hinder the performance of a sequential zone-picking line. This study proposes a cooperative approach which allows pickers in adjacent zones to help one another so that the load imbalance between pickers of different zones can be minimized or eliminated. We propose a variety of cooperation strategies and test their performance using computer simulations. We compare the performance of the proposed cooperation strategies with that of conventional sequential zone-picking methods that do not allow cooperation between pickers. The knowledge learned from this study can benefit warehouse managers seeking to improve the efficiency of sequential zone-picking lines.

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