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We focus on the order picking operation carried out in one of the major warehouses of a retailer to satisfy the orders placed by the stores of the same retailer. We investigate the simultaneous solution of the storage assignment problem and picker routing problem referred to as JSAPRP that involves both assigning items to storage locations and deciding on the routes of the pickers for item collection. The performance measure of interest is the minimization of the total traveling distance of the pickers. We develop a mathematical model which can only solve small instances of the JSAPRP. Therefore, we also devise a heuristic method based on adaptive large neighborhood search. Computational results obtained on numerous experiments reveal that the quality of the solutions produced by this heuristic is quite good.
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Aras, N., Görgülü, B. (2019). An Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search Heuristic for Jointly Solving Storage Location Assignment and Picker Routing Problem. In: Fortz, B., Labbé, M. (eds) Operations Research Proceedings 2018. Operations Research Proceedings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18500-8_38
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