Distributing a warehouse task from a warehouse management hub to a programmable logic controller in a distributed warehouse system

US11875421B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP SE · DE

Inventors

• Tobias Adler · Viernheim, DE
• Joerg Michaelis · Düsseldorf, DE
• Andreas Daum · Heidelberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 8, 2021
• Grant date: Jan 16, 2024
• Expiry date: Mar 5, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L69/326
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method, a medium, and a system for distributing a warehouse task from a warehouse management hub to a programmable logic controller comprise receiving at least one warehouse task at a warehouse management hub including attributes for physically transferring at least one product into a warehouse, out of the warehouse or within the warehouse, determining, by the warehouse management hub and based on the attributes of the warehouse task, one of a plurality of warehouse management devices for processing the warehouse task, sending, by the warehouse management hub, the warehouse task to the determined warehouse management device, identifying, by the determined warehouse management device and based on the attributes of the warehouse task, a first one of a plurality of programmable logic controllers, and sending, by the determined warehouse management device, a message including information for carrying out the warehouse task to the identified programmable logic controllers.