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College Industry Council on Material Handling Education

Order Picking

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This lecture covers analytical models for order picking, including constructing picking tours and batching orders. The author covers the pick sequencing algorithm of Bartholdi and Platzmann and the order batching procedure of De Koster. He also includes an addendum of Ratliff and Rosenthal's special case polynomial-time algorithm for constructing picking tours. Slides include many graphics and illustrations!

This module was developed by: Spyros Reveliotis

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