A Review of The Optimization of The Manual Picking System

Abstract

The warehouse operations play a decisive role in the service quality performance of logistics service supply chain. Currently, many small and medium-sized warehouses still adopt manual picking systems. Picking, therefore, becomes the most workload among the whole warehouse operational processes. Study on the improvement of the manual picking system still has a great significance. This study first reviews the main problems that affect the efficiency of the picking system regarding two categories: strategical and operational issues. With the investigation among reviewed research works, the study proposes suggestions on the improvement of the manual picking systems for SMEs..