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Proposal of a new metaheuristic for the picker's route designation in warehouse management

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The order picking is the most time-and work-consuming component of total warehouse operations.As traveling takes up the most of the order picking time, reduction of the picker's route length can help decreasing it.The aim of the research is to develop a new routing metaheuristic with the use of R language for designing the picker's route in warehouse management that will provide better results than other, widely used routing heuristics.We apply the proposed metaheuristic in the classical, picker-to-parts, one-block rectangular warehouse with random storage assignment.We compare the results with the results obtained by its means with the most widely used routing heuristics: s-shape, return and midpoint.We assume the shared storage and various take-out strategies.Locations to be visited were obtained by using the COPRAS Complex Proportional Assessment) method.The criterion for assessment of applied metaheuristic is the length of the picking route for every takeout strategy.Obtained results indicate that the proposed metaheuristic provided shorter routes as compared with other routing heuristics.

Source: Badania Operacyjne i Decyzje/Operations Research and Decisions

DOI: 10.37190/ord250303

Authors: Krzysztof Dmytrów, Andrzej Dudek

Institutions: University of Szczecin, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business

Language: English

Topic: Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization

Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Uniwersytet Szczeciński