A New SOM Batching Heuristic for Order Picking Systems
Base on the global economics crunch, the enterprise start to reduce the cost in many segments of supply chain in order to reduce the management cost. Therefore, this paper develops a new order batching heuristic (SOMB) for the order picking systems in distribution centers. It applies the idea of Self Organization Map to cluster the orders with higher relativity into a batch to reduce the total order picking distances. The number of SKUs in an order and the number of the same aisles covered for an order batch are the key decision factors. The increasing of SKUs in an order would affect optimum weights of SOMB; also, the weights should be more exactness to enhance the performance of order picking operations. A simulation experiment is executed to verify that the SOMB heuristic can reduce the order picking distances and increasing the utilization of picking vehicle.
Order Batching Self Organization Map Batching Order picking operations
Ling-Feng Hsieh Chia-Yun Fan
Department of Transportation Technology and Logistics Management,Chung Hua University,Hsinchu, Taiwa Department of Technology Management,Chung Hua University,Hsinchu,TaiwanNo.707 Wu Fu Road Sec.2,Hsinc
国际会议
厦门
英文
1478-1481
2010-10-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）