pick-and-sort
noun1
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 new challenges.2022 January 23, 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: