Design of optimization system for warehouse order picking in real environment

Abstract

Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) play a major role in optimizing warehouse logistic processes, archiving merchant trends of supply and demand, and also easen treating of goods which are close to expiring deadline, out of stock, broken or deposited by customers. Since warehouse management systems may be integrated with business intelligence, they may comprise algorithms for optimization of warehouse order picking and storing of goods, sales prediction etc. In this article case study of warehouse management system is presented, and afterwards problem of optimal warehouse order picking is exhibited. This problem is transformed into Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP), and solved using heuristic optimization methods.