Center heuristics

Center heuristics is a method for optimizing picking routes according to the man-to-goods principle. Each aisle is divided in half. The compartments in the upper half are reached from the upper aisle side, those in the lower half from the opposite, lower aisle side. The order picker leaves the current aisle on the side on which he entered it. In this way, all aisles containing articles are passed through. Cf. Largest gap heuristic, meander heuristic.

Source: logipedia / Fraunhofer IML