Dear scheduling researcher,

We are delighted to announce the talk given by Nils Boysen (University of Jena). The title is " Scheduling in the e-commerce era: New scheduling problems in order fulfilment and warehousing".

The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, February 21 at 14:00 UTC. Join Zoom Meeting https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/95552422876?pwd=Y1lPM2RVeTR4cmh5anMyUXUzWVBGZz09 Meeting ID: 955 5242 2876 Passcode: 739068 You can follow the seminar online or offline on our Youtube channel as well: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoCNnaAfw5NAntItILFn4A

The abstract follows. Driven by the success of e-commerce, today's warehouses are evolving into fully automated fulfillment factories. Many of them follow the parts-to-picker paradigm, using mobile shelf-lifting robots or conveyors to deliver stock keeping units (SKUs) to stationary order pickers working in picking workstations. This talk aims to structure and review the family of fulfillment-related scheduling problems that arise in this environment: On the input side, the sequence in which totes of SKUs are delivered to a workstation must be synchronized with the orders that are being assembled there at the same time on the output side. In this way, a more efficient fulfillment process can be achieved, and the bin supply system can be relieved. This talk classifies the family of slightly different order fulfillment scheduling problems that arise with different workstation setups in alternative warehouses. This classification scheme is used to survey the existing literature, analyze the computational complexity, and systematically quantify the gains of alternative workstation setups. The talk also highlights valuable future research ideas for this emerging area of scheduling research.

The next talk in our series will be: Laurent Perron (Google France) | March 6 | The CP-SAT solver.

For more details, please visit https://schedulingseminar.com/

With kind regards

Zdenek, Mike and Guohua