Allocating Tasks Between Workers in a Warehouse

In a bucket brigade, the product is moved forward from start to finish by a collection of workers working in sequence. As the last worker finishes a product, he walks back and takes over the partially finished product from his predecessor, who walks back and takes over from his predecessor, and so on. The workers continue to move product forward. 

in addition, workers are sequenced from slowest to fastest, they will probably gravitate to the optimal division of work so that throughput is maximized [6]. 

Some of the benefits to a bucket brigade system are the following  

The role of the supervisor is decreased substantially because bucket brigades make the line self-balancing. 

The ability of bucket brigades to adjust themselves, without the need for supervisory or software intervention and associated delays, enables the lines to become agile and flexible. 

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