Impact of Storage Assignment Decisions on a Bucket Brigade Order Picking Line

• Main Authors: Webster, S, Ruben, R A, YANG, Kum Khiong
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: warehouse management; storage assignment; order picking; bucket brigade; Business Administration, Management, and Operations
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3212; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1937-5956.2011.01267.x
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Bucket brigade order picking is a method for retrieving orders from a storage rack where workers follow a fixed sequence and dynamically adjust to variability in work content along the rack. The method is simple and has been shown to provide superior performance in many applications. In this article...