Order Picking Operation and Warehouse Layout Optimization in a Textile Industry by Using Genetic Algorithm.

The optimization of Warehouse Layout and Order Picking are essential to warehouse management in companies trying to follow the trend of one-day shipping. This paper studies a Textile Industry with this objective, proposing a change in warehouse layout and applying a Genetic Algorithm (GA) with the objective of optimizing the order picking operation. The proposed GA uses sales data and data mining to minimize the distance between the company's bestselling items. The results have demonstrated the feasibility of this approach, supplying two optimal warehouse layout configurations with minimal distances between the most sold items. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]