A Study for Storage Allocation in Synchronized Zones Based on the Association Analysis of Goods

Abstract:

In this paper, the optimization methods for storage allocation in synchronized zones are discussed. We used customer orders to dig correlation between goods, and proposed an index to measure the similarity between goods, then used a heuristics way to solve the p-median clustering problem. The goods appeared in the same orders frequently are most likely to be allocated in different zones, in order to balance the labor intensity of different zones, thus the total order picking time is reduced and the resource utilization of each zone is improved.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 687-691)
• Pages: 4658-4665
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.687-691.4658
• Online since: November 2014
• Authors: Xiao Guang Zhou, Na Mou, Ling Yun Wei
• Keywords: Correlation Analysis, Data Mining (DM), Heuristics, Order Picking, Storage Allocation, Synchronized Zones

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