System for improving in-store picking performance and experience by optimizing tote-fill and order batching of items in retail store and method of using same

US10657580B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Walmart Apollo, LLC · US

Inventors

• Ashwin Kumar · Bengaluru, IN
• Ameya Ajay Shendre · Bengaluru, IN
• Pratosh Deepak Rajkhowa · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 27, 2017
• Grant date: May 19, 2020
• Expiry date: Jul 18, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0635
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method includes receiving a plurality of orders having one or more items, separating the orders by load number and due times, batching the separate orders into different commodities, generate optimized rebatched orders according to an optimization algorithm that generates the optimized rebatched orders based on at least one of distance and volume of the items of the one or more items within the batched orders of the different commodities, sorting the one or more items within the rebatched orders by sequence numbers, and transmitting the sorted one or more items to a user device.