近年來，隨著便利商店、超市與量販店的興起，造成市場產品品牌與種類日益增加，廠商加速推陳出新，造成產品生命週期趨短，行銷通路亦因此產生極大的變革，傳統的多層次複雜通路，漸漸轉化為由供應商經物流中心，直接送至個零售據點的作業方式，位居行銷通路核心的物流中心如何在最適當的時效內，以最經濟、快速的方式，提供正確的商品，滿足顧客之需求，成為重要的企業經營議題。
許多統計資料顯示，大多數的物料處理作業，都是屬於勞力密集且高重複性，產品的揀貨作業策略佔直接相關的人力達 50% 以上，由鑑於此，規畫合理的揀貨作業，對物流中心的運作效率具有決定性的影響。「訂單別揀取」與「批量揀取」是目前物流中心較常採用的兩種揀貨方式。在市場多樣少量的需求下，「批量揀取」可以達到較優的揀貨效率，其目的是透過加總不同訂單之相同品項合併揀取，減少揀取旅行次數，縮短旅行距離，達到提升揀貨效率的目標。
本論文之目的，乃於物流中心人工揀貨區的揀貨作業的情境下，針對「訂單批量揀取」問題做有系統地探討。文中應用十一種種子訂單選取法則、十四種配合訂單選取法則，以及兩種路徑規劃策略交互搭配，利用Visual Basic 6.0做模擬實驗，進行不同法則組合之下的實驗分析，最後對揀貨距離績效，以統計軟體做數據整理與分析，期望得到較佳的訂單批次組合方法。另外，本文將於曾裕茵(2003)所提出的揀貨法則做比較，並提出對未來研究方法的建議，以供實體揀貨中心的揀貨參考依據。

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