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cluster picking

cluster picking noun: an order picking method where the picker simultaneously collects goods from several orders.

Noun

cluster picking (uncountable)

  1. (logistics) An order picking method where the picker simultaneously collects goods from several orders.
    • This paper focuses on optimizing the static order batching problem (OBP) with multiple pickers. This problem involves optimal assignment of a set of customer orders to batches, given capacity constraints, in order to minimize the total distance travelled. The order picking strategy considered is...2019, Aaya Aboelfotoh, Manjeet Singh and Gursel Suer, “Order Batching Optimization for Warehouses with Cluster-Picking”, in Procedia Manufacturing, volume 39, Netherlands, →DOI, pages 1464-1473

Questions about cluster picking

What does cluster picking mean?
Cluster picking means an order picking method where the picker simultaneously collects goods from several orders.
What part of speech is cluster picking?
Cluster picking is a noun.

Words near cluster picking in the dictionary

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  2. cluster munition
  3. cluster munitions
  4. cluster of differentiation
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  8. cluster poison
  9. cluster research
  10. cluster respiration
  11. cluster set

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