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A pick list is not a route
How a barcode scan became a warehouse route: order lookup, slot choice, shelf ergonomics, and the graph hidden under a pick list.
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Warehouse route optimization
The technical appendix to the warehouse optimizer case study: product workflow first, route benchmark second, data consistency third.
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2 · 9 min readWhy jump point search lost to a lookup table
The route optimizer benchmark track: JPS was a reasonable pathfinding choice, but precomputed Dijkstra tables, SlotId compression, and an exact ILP referee fit the warehouse better.