Aggregation of Order Picking System Using Order Batching

Abstract

The objective of this project is to know about the Order Picking System (OPS) in the warehouse management system (WMS). I.Introduction Order picking is a warehouse function dealing with the retrieval of articles from their storage locations in order to satisfy a given demand specified by customer requests. Of all warehouse operations, order picking is considered to include the most cost intensive ones [1]. Up to 50% of the total warehouse operating costs can attributed to order picking [2]. Between the time an order is released to the warehouse and the time it takes to reach its destination, there is ample opportunity for errors in both accuracy and completeness, not to mention time lost. There is also room for improvement. Industry has come up with innovative solutions, making it possible to attain productivity up to 1,000 picks per person hour [3]. Among such manual order picking system, picker to parts systems can be considered as the most important ones. The order picking process to be more efficient then the picking operations and order batching are important. Today there are several order batching methods that tend to make efficient batching for the picking operations but the perfect method to form the batching requires a lot of considerations. The new developed technique still requires some progress to form a possible approach for the batching of customer orders. The ultimate aim of the batching is to reduce the time involved in the picking operation which can reduce the warehouse operating cost and also the order fulfillment will be at a great level.