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Application of Bucket-brigades to Order Picking in Warehouses

물류창고에서 Bucket Brigade를 활용한 오더피킹에 대한 연구

  • Koo, Pyung-Hoi (Dept. of Systems Management and Engineering, Pukyong National University)
  • 구평회 (부경대학교 시스템경영공학과)
  • Received : 2008.03.01
  • Accepted : 2008.07.31
  • Published : 2008.09.30
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Abstract

Warehouses form an important link in a supply chain network. Among a variety of activities in warehouses, order picking is the process of retrieving a number of items out of storage to meet customer orders. Today, as the transactions through direct sales are wide spread, warehouses often receive a large amount of small orders to be handled within tight time windows, which makes fast and efficient order picking more important than ever. This paper examines a new order picking method where the concept of bucket brigade (BB) is applied. Bucket brigade is a way of dynamically coordinating workers who progressively perform a set of operations along a flow line. In bucket brigades, a worker is not assigned his jobs in a static way. Each worker takes a job from his predecessor when he is free. We identify some considerations when bucket brigades are applied to order picking activities. A new BB picking protocol is presented to improve existing BB picking protocols. Through simulation experiments, the performance of BB order picking is evaluated under various logistics environments.

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