Abstract
From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents o btained the followingquote: “Contemporary storage facilities handle a large num ber of inventory items on a daily basis. Theinventory items may be moved out of the storage facility for fulfilment of an order or brought inside thestorage f acility for replenishment of inventory items. Examples of such inventory items m ay includegroceries, apparels, cosmetics, electronic appliances, or the like. T hroughputs of such storage facilitiesmay have a direct bearing on various busin ess metrics such as time taken to complete orders, total numberof orders comple ted within a time duration, customer satisfaction, or the like. Hence, it is nec essary tooptimize the operations performed at these storage facilities to reali ze a maximum throughput.
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