Electronic Apparatus for Optimizing Item Picking in Storage Centers
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Solution Overview
Problem
The random stow method for item storage centers leads to inefficient picking operations due to items being distributed across multiple locations, resulting in multiple picking and packaging processes for items that belong to different groups, even if they are stored in the same place.
Innovation Solution
An electronic apparatus and method that identifies storage places corresponding to pickup item information based on item group information, providing information to a manager terminal to optimize item picking by determining the most suitable storage locations for items within item groups stored across multiple places.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the random stow method is used to distribute items across multiple locations, then item storage flexibility is improved, but picking efficiency deteriorates due to multiple picking operations being required
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by continuously tracking the locations of items and providing real-time information to the picking system. The server receives location information from multiple storage places and uses this feedback to dynamically determine the optimal picking sequence and consolidate items from different locations into a single picking operation, thereby maintaining storage flexibility while improving picking efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The picking system is designed with multi-functionality to handle items from multiple storage locations simultaneously. The system can identify items distributed across different storage places, consolidate their location information, and generate a unified picking instruction that processes all items in a single operation, making the system versatile enough to handle both randomly distributed items and consolidated picking requirements.
2Productivity
If items are distributed across multiple storage places, then storage optimization is improved, but the number of picking operations increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-collecting and storing location information for all items in the server before the picking operation begins. When a picking request is received, the system already has the location data ready, allowing it to quickly identify and consolidate items from multiple storage places into a single picking operation, thereby avoiding multiple sequential operations and reducing time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges the picking operations for items from different storage places into a single consolidated operation. By receiving location information from multiple storage places and processing all items in one unified picking instruction, the system combines what would otherwise be separate picking tasks into one efficient operation, reducing the total number of operations and time required.
3Ease of operation
If multiple picking operations are performed for items in different item groups, then item group management is improved, but overall picking efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The picking system is designed with multi-functionality to handle items from multiple item groups and storage places simultaneously. The server receives and processes location information for items across different item groups, consolidates this information, and generates a unified picking instruction that processes all items in a single operation, making the system versatile enough to maintain item group management while improving overall picking efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The server acts as an intermediary between the multiple storage places and the picking operation. It receives location information from different storage places, processes the information to identify items across item groups, and generates consolidated picking instructions. This intermediary function allows the system to maintain proper item group management while coordinating multiple items into a single efficient picking operation.
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AI summary
Provided is an electronic apparatus and a method thereof. The method includes identifying pickup item information, identifying at least one storage place corresponding to the pickup item information among a plurality of storage places in the item storage center based on information on or regarding an item group located at each of the plurality of storage places, and providing information on the identified storage place and the pickup item information to a manager terminal, wherein the item group comprises at least one same item corresponding to an item group, and at least a portion of a plurality of item groups comprising a same item are stored in different storage places in the item storage center.