Design and Management of a Lean Order Picking System

 
 
 
 

Design and Management of a Lean Order Picking System

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dc.contributor.advisor Masel, Dale T. en_US
dc.contributor.author Kong, Chenying en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2008-07-08T17:05:17Z
dc.date.available 2008-07-08T17:05:17Z
dc.date.created 2007 en_US
dc.date.issued 2008-07-08T17:05:17Z
dc.identifier.uri http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1193939205 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/13115
dc.description Order picking is the process of retrieving items from storage according to customer orders. It is significant to warehouse management because it typically accounts for over half of the operation costs. In this research, an order picking system that is designed by applying lean principles is discussed. The discussion is focused on three important decisions: layout design, storage location assignment, and workload scheduling. Combination of existing strategies has been applied to layout design in order to achieve the goal of lean. Buffer trays are applied in the fast pick area to reduce the impact of imbalance between zones. Heuristics are developed to assign storage locations and schedule workload, to optimize the performance of the system. The testing results show that the proposed warehouse with assignment and scheduling results obtained from the heuristics is more efficient than a traditional warehouse in terms of requested labor time of completing orders in one wave. en_US
dc.format application/pdf en_US
dc.format 107p. en_US
dc.rights unrestricted en_US
dc.rights Copyright and permissions information available at the source archive en_US
dc.subject order picking en_US
dc.subject lean principles en_US
dc.subject layout design en_US
dc.subject storage location assignment en_US
dc.subject scheduling en_US
dc.title Design and Management of a Lean Order Picking System en_US
dc.type Electronic Thesis or Dissertation en_US
dc.degree.name MS en_US
dc.degree.level masters en_US
dc.degree.discipline Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering (Engineering) en_US
dc.degree.grantor Ohio University en_US
dc.contributor.publisher Ohio University / OhioLINK en_US

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