David Füßler

• Doctor of Business Administration
• Researcher at Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Due to high real estate costs in urban areas, shop floor space is scarce in most brick‐and‐mortar stores. Maneuvering newly arrived merchandise through narrow aisles during shelf replenishment is time‐consuming for the sales staff and impedes customers. Therefore, many retail chains nowadays aim for store‐friendly shipments (SFS). By mirroring the...

Warehouses are an inevitable component in any supply chain and a vividly investigated object of research. Much attention, however, is absorbed by warehousing systems dedicated to the special needs of online retailers in the business-to-consumer segment. Due to the ever increasing sales volumes of e-commerce this focus seems self-evident, but a much...

Put‐to‐light order picking systems invert the basic logic of conventional picker‐to‐parts systems. Instead of successively visiting the storage positions of the stock keeping units (SKUs) when collecting picking orders, an order picker accompanies successive bins each containing multiple items of a specific SKU along a lane of subsequent orders. Wh...

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...

This paper is dedicated to the cafeteria problem: given a single waiter operating multiple counters for different dishes arranged along a line and a set of customers with given subsets of dishes they desire, find a sequence of customers, which may not overtake each other, and a service schedule for the waiter, such that the makespan is minimized. T...

This paper investigates the order processing in picking workstations, which are among today’s most efficient order picking devices. A workstation is continuously supplied with storage bins containing stock keeping units (SKUs) from an interconnected storage system, so that a human worker only has to repack the items into customer bins. This way of...

An inverse order picking system inverts the basic logic of traditional picker-to-parts systems where pickers successively visit all shelves storing requested stock keeping units (SKUs). Instead, the picker successively moves bins each containing a particular SKU along a line of multiple order bins and puts items into all bins that require the curre...