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pick-and-sort

pick-and-sort noun: an order picking method where goods are picked first and sorted later.

Noun

pick-and-sort (uncountable)

  1. (logistics) An order picking method where goods are picked first and sorted later.
    • First, the pick-and-sort strategy is now being widely used in most warehouses, such as warehouses in JD. Second, Van Nieuwenhuyse and De Koster (2009) show that the pick-and-sort strategy is superior to the sort-while-pick strategy in almost every setting. However, the pick-and-sort strategy brings...2022 January, Xiaowei Jiang, Lijun Sun, Yuankai Zhang and Xiangpei Hu, “Order batching and sequencing for minimising the total order completion time in pick-and-sort warehouses”, in Expert Systems...
    Antonyms:
    sort-while-pick

Antonyms of pick-and-sort

Questions about pick-and-sort

What does pick-and-sort mean?
Pick-and-sort means an order picking method where goods are picked first and sorted later.
What part of speech is pick-and-sort?
Pick-and-sort is a noun.

Words near pick-and-sort in the dictionary

  1. pick'd
  2. pick'em
  3. Pick's disease
  4. pick-and-mix
  5. pick-and-pick
  6. pick-and-sort
  7. pick-at-will
  8. pick-axe
  9. pick-axes
  10. pick-by-order
  11. pick-by-vision

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