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This paper evaluates and compares strategies for routing a manual picker through a simple warehouse. It expands on previous work, in which optimization algorithms were developed, by deriving equations which relate route length to warehouse attributes. Several rules of thumb are derived for selection of order picking strategies and optimization of warehouse shape.
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