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An estimation distribution algorithm for wave-picking warehouse management

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  • Jingran Liang

    (Tsinghua University)

  • Zhengning Wu

    (University of Sydney)

  • Chenye Zhu

    (University of Sydney)

  • Zhi-Hai Zhang

    (Tsinghua University)

Abstract

Recently, market has witnessed a tremendous growth in E-commerce sales, which bring tons of opportunities as well as challenges. Warehouses have to handle unique characteristics of customer orders in the era of E-commerce which consists of small order scales, large items count, unexpected irregular order arrival patterns, seasonality demand peeks, and high service level expectations. Warehouses are adopting wave-picking as an effective policy composed of item-batching, load-assignment and picker-routing problems. In this research, principle combination of load-assignment and picker-routing problems is studied. A mixed integer mathematical model is established based on features of a wave-picking warehouse. In order to conquer the complexity caused by routing decision of the proposed problem, a set of effective modified Estimation Distribution Algorithms is developed. The set of proposed algorithms is proved to have stable gaps (1% on average and maximum less than 2%) compared with Cplex 12.8, while can be solved in much larger scale within quite short time (100 pickers and 350 items in each wave within less than 2 min).

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  • Jingran Liang & Zhengning Wu & Chenye Zhu & Zhi-Hai Zhang, 2022. "An estimation distribution algorithm for wave-picking warehouse management," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 33(4), pages 929-942, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joinma:v:33:y:2022:i:4:d:10.1007_s10845-020-01688-6
    DOI: 10.1007/s10845-020-01688-6
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