Improving order-picking operations with precedence constraints through efficient storage location assignment: evidence from a retail company

Maria A. M. Trindade; Paulo S. A. Sousa; Maria R. A. Moreira

doi:10.24840/2183-6493_007.003_0004

Improving order-picking operations with precedence constraints through efficient storage location assignment: evidence from a retail company

Maria A. M. Trindade^*
, Paulo S. A. Sousa^*
, Maria R. A. Moreira^*

^*Autor correspondente para este trabalho

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This paper is inspired by a manual picking retail company where shape and weight constraints affect the order-picking process. We proposed an alternative clustering similarity index that considers the similarity, the weight and the shape of products. This similarity index was further incorporated in a storage allocation heuristic procedure to set the location of the products. We test the procedure in a retail company that supplies over 191 stores, in Northern Portugal. When comparing the strategy currently used in the company with this procedure, we found out that our approach enabled a reduction of up to 40% on the picking distance; a percentage of improvement that is 32% higher than the one achieved by applying the Jaccard index, a similarity index commonly used in the literature. This allows warehouses to save time and work faster.

Idioma original	English
Páginas (de-até)	34-52
Número de páginas	19
Revista	U.Porto Journal of Engineering
Volume	7
Número de emissão	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.24840/2183-6493_007.003_0004
Estado da publicação	Publicado - 30 abr. 2021

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Improving order-picking operations with precedence constraints through efficient storage location assignment: evidence from a retail company

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