A hybrid artificial neural network, genetic algorithm and column generation heuristic for minimizing makespan in manual order picking operations

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Ehsan Ardjmand, Iman Ghalehkhondabi, William A. Young II, Azadeh Sadeghi, Gary R. Weckman, Heman Shakeri

Published: 2020, Last Modified: 30 Sept 2024Expert Syst. Appl. 2020EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Highlights•A soft computing-based column generation heuristic for order picking is proposed.•The proposed algorithm is compared against PSA-ACO and an exact method.•Based on numerical experiments some managerial insights are proposed.