BBAuthors: Füßler, David; Advisor: -; Participants: Boysen, Nils; Stephan, Konrad (2019)
Trolley line picking is a special warehousing system particularly suited to fulfill high volume demands for heavy stock keeping units (SKUs). In such a system, unit loads of SKUs are positioned along a given path passed by automated trolleys, i.e., carriers hanging from a monorail or automated guided vehicles. Once a trolley reaches a
requested SKU, it automatically stops and announces the requested items on a display. This is the signal for an accompanying human picker to put the demanded items onto the trolley. In this way, picking continues until, at the end of the path, the current picking order is complete and the trolley moves onward to the shipping area. Meanwhile, the picker ...