Taxonomy for integrating scheduling theory and human factors: Review and research opportunities

Lodree, Emmett J.; Geiger, Christopher D.; Jiang, Xiuping

doi:10.1016/j.ergon.2008.05.001

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“…Lodree et al (2009) reviewed the literature based on the physical and cognitive challenges associated with semiautomated order picking in warehouses. DeKoster et al (2007) presented a literature overview on typical decision problems in the design and control of manual order-picking processes, which concerns some or all of the following problems at the operational level: batching, routing and sequencing, and sorting.…”

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“…The selection of the appropriate strategy/strategies and the design of an effective order-picking operation are crucially important warehouse design and control problems. Over the last few decades, many papers (see in Rouwenhorst et al 2000;DeKoster et al 2007;Gu et al 2007;Lodree et al 2009) have been appeared studying order-picking processes. A few of them (Yoon and Sharp 1995;Dallari et al 2009;Melacini et al 2011) concentrated on designing an order-picking system theoretically.…”

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Design of Order-Picking System and Selecting Picking Strategies in a 3PL Firm for Serving Fashion Retailing Companies

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Arikan

2016

Springer Series in Fashion Business

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This study considers a real-life, picker-to-part order-picking system employing humans with multiple picks per route in a third-party logistics (3PL) firm. The 3PL firm has many customers from different sectors. The customer, whose orders are subject to this study, is primarily engaged in retail sales in the fashion industry. Being competitive in the fashion market relies on the ability to be flexible and responsive to meet the customer's demands. In the fashion business, lead time, delivery reliability, and stock availability are three key elements for satisfying the customer's perceived service level. The effective management of these three elements is closely linked to the process of distribution and logistics, which implies that the fashion firms should choose and cooperate with an efficient logistics service supplier. To maintain the efficiency of the 3PL firm that directly supports its fashion retailing customers, an order-picking system for the customer's fashion products is designed. To choose the most appropriate order-picking system, a process flow consisting of strategic decisions, operational implementation, and evaluation and selection (ES) sections is developed. In the operational level of the flow, the pick-and-sort batch-picking strategy with two different levels for the picker number and the synchronized zone-picking strategy with three different zone sizes are utilized as five alternative order-picking strategies based on the considered problem. For each alternative case, corresponding mathematical models of the order-batching problem are solved to maximize the total number of items fulfilled. In the ES section, the order-picking strategy with the lowest cost is selected based on the cost-centric analytical approach for alternative strategies.A. Can

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2016

Springer Series in Fashion Business

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“…Human characteristics such as motivation and reward has a big impact on the job performance, and the reward needs to be considered in scheduling human tasks as discussed by Lodree et al (2009). There are a few papers on the revenue maximization scheduling problems.…”

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Scheduling Algorithms for the Maximal Total Revenue on a Single Processor with Starting Time Penalty

Joo

2012

Management Science and Financial Engineering

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This paper considers a revenue maximization problem on a single processor. Each job is identified as its processing time, initial reward, reward decreasing rate, and preferred start time. If the processor starts a job at time zero, revenue of the job is its initial reward. However, the revenue decreases linearly with the reward decreasing rate according to its processing start time till its preferred start time and finally its revenue is zero if it is started the processing after the preferred time. Our objective is to find the optimal sequence which maximizes the total revenue. For the problem, we characterize the optimal solution properties and prove the NP-hardness. Based upon the characterization, we develop a branch-and-bound algorithm for the optimal sequence and suggest five heuristic algorithms for efficient solutions. The numerical tests show that the characterized properties are useful for effective and efficient algorithms.

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“…In addition, some scholars pointed out that fatigue can degrade workers performance on tasks in production reflected by the change of task duration [48][49][50][51][52]. Digiesi et al showed that workers spend more time to process jobs when they become tired and slower [49].…”

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A Biobjective Model for Manual Materials Handling with Energy Consumption Being Accounted For

Zhang

Fan

Xiong

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Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Aiming at production environment and operation design in manual materials handling which often overlook workers' physiological factors and cause fatigue, even work-related musculoskeletal disorders, we construct a biobjective model based on economics and ergonomics. In the model, two objectives include functions about handling time and energy consumption. Based on the openness of IGRIP/ERGO simulation software combined with MATLAB, we design and develop the interactive simulation platform, where program language can be automatically generated. Then, we analyze the case about handling operations in an automobile brake pad manufacturing company, and the number of input materials and process scheduling are taken as research objects. Finally, the results show that the win-win optimal solution can be usually obtained between productivity and ergonomics for decision makers according to the proposed biobjective model. Moreover, the case study demonstrates that the interactive simulation platform can be devoted to providing the solution for modern production operation directly and conveniently, which can make the production environment and operation design in accordance with ergonomics.

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Taxonomy for integrating scheduling theory and human factors: Review and research opportunities

Cited by 101 publications

References 73 publications

Design of Order-Picking System and Selecting Picking Strategies in a 3PL Firm for Serving Fashion Retailing Companies

Design of Order-Picking System and Selecting Picking Strategies in a 3PL Firm for Serving Fashion Retailing Companies

Scheduling Algorithms for the Maximal Total Revenue on a Single Processor with Starting Time Penalty

A Biobjective Model for Manual Materials Handling with Energy Consumption Being Accounted For

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