Method for processing a list of customer orders in a customer-order preparing system and corresponding customer-order preparing system
US11649114B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 22, 2020 |
| Grant date | May 16, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 5, 2041 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG05B2219/2621
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Processing a list of customer orders with a control system and a preparing station, which includes a picking position, an insertion position and local recirculation. The control system: selects a reference in the greatest number of order lines of the list; determines a set E of all the NE orders each containing an order line containing the selected reference; creates a group G of N orders that are the NE orders, if NE≤Nmax with Nmax being a predetermined threshold, or the Nmax first orders of the NE orders sorted according to decreasing order of priority, if NE>Nmax; builds a list LC of the K order lines in the N orders of the group G; and controls the system to bring source loads to the picking position and ship loads to the insertion position and to make the shipping loads recirculate to the insertion position, according to the list LC.
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