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A Precious Mess: On the Scattered Storage Assignment Problem

In: Operations Research Proceedings 2016

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  • Felix Weidinger

    (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

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Induced by the rise of online retailing new storage strategies have evolved, designed to meet the demands of e-commerce warehousing. Although many of these new approaches have established over the last few years, literature on basic planning problems in these environments can be found only rarely. This paper points out the special needs of e-commerce warehousing and details the scattered storage strategy (also known as mixed-shelves storage) where unit loads are unbundled and single items are stored at multiple positions within the warehouse. This way, an item of an ordered product is always close by and the unproductive walking time of pickers is reduced. Based on the paper of Weidinger and Boysen (Scattered storage: how to distribute stock keeping units all around a mixed-shelves warehouse. Working Paper Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, 2015) [8], the scattered storage assignment problem is presented and the processes in a scattered storage warehouse are described.

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  • Felix Weidinger, 2018. "A Precious Mess: On the Scattered Storage Assignment Problem," Operations Research Proceedings, in: Andreas Fink & Armin Fügenschuh & Martin Josef Geiger (ed.), Operations Research Proceedings 2016, pages 31-36, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:oprchp:978-3-319-55702-1_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55702-1_5
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    1. Gámez Albán, Harol Mauricio & Cornelissens, Trijntje & Sörensen, Kenneth, 2024. "A new policy for scattered storage assignment to minimize picking travel distances," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 315(3), pages 1006-1020.
    2. Justkowiak, Jan-Erik & Pesch, Erwin, 2023. "Stronger mixed-integer programming-formulations for order- and rack-sequencing in robotic mobile fulfillment systems," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 305(3), pages 1063-1078.
    3. Justkowiak, Jan-Erik & Pesch, Erwin, 2023. "A column generation driven heuristic for order-scheduling and rack-sequencing in robotic mobile fulfillment systems," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 120(C).

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