pick-and-sort

Meanings

nounpick-and-sort (uncountable)

uncountablelogisticsAn order picking method where goods are picked first and sorted later.
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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 new challenges.
2022 January 29, 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 with Applications, volume 187, Netherlands, →DOI
Antonyms: sort-while-pick

nounAn order picking method where goods are picked first and sorted later.

Opposite

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