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On solving the order processing in picking workstations

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The Order Processing in Picking Workstations is a real problem derived from the industry in the context of supply chain management. It looks for an efficient way to process orders… Click to show full abstract

The Order Processing in Picking Workstations is a real problem derived from the industry in the context of supply chain management. It looks for an efficient way to process orders arriving to a warehouse by minimizing the number of movements of goods, stored in containers in the warehouse, from their storage location to the processing zone. In this paper, we tackle this real optimization problem by providing a new Integer Linear Programming (ILP) formulation for the problem. Due to the $$\mathcal {NP}$$ NP -Hardness of the problem we have also designed several heuristic procedures, to find high-quality solutions in a reasonable amount of time, which is mandatory for handling real instances. Particularly, the heuristics proposed were combined into a General Variable Neighborhood Search algorithm. Finally, we have performed an extensive experimentation indicating an increased performance of our proposals (ILP and heuristic) over previous approaches in the state of the art, using both synthetic and real datasets of instances.

Keywords: problem; processing picking; order processing; picking workstations; solving order

Journal Title: Optimization Letters
Year Published: 2022

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