Electronic apparatus for providing picking information of item and method thereof

An electronic apparatus for providing item picking information of an item storage center, wherein the electronic apparatus is configured to communicate with a manager terminal via a network, the electronic apparatus comprising:

• a memory comprising instructions;
• and
• a processor,
• wherein the processor is connected to the memory and configured to:
• identify pickup item information for an item;
• receive, via a communication port, location information of a tote from the manager terminal, the communication port configured to facilitate communication with the manager terminal over the network;
• identify 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 regarding an item group located at each of the plurality of storage places and based on the location information of the tote;
• provide, via the communication port, information regarding the identified at least one storage place and the pickup item information to the manager terminal over the network;
• and
• receive information regarding the tote from the manager terminal over the network, the information regarding the tote generated by a scanner of the manager terminal, the scanner configured to scan a machine-readable code attached to the tote to generate the information regarding the tote,
• 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,
• wherein the pickup item information comprises information regarding a quantity of a first item to be picked,
• wherein the processor is configured to:
• identify storage places in which the first item is located among the plurality of storage places,
• identify, among the identified storage places, a storage place storing at least the quantity of the first item to be picked,
• in response to no storage place storing at least the quantity of the first item to be picked, identify a first storage place storing a quantity of the first item closest to the quantity of the first item to be picked and identify a second storage place comprising an item group corresponding to an earliest warehousing order among the identified storage places in which the first item is located, and
• identify the first storage place and the second storage place as the at least one storage place corresponding to the pickup item information, and
• wherein the item group is placed in one of the plurality of storage places based on a random stow-based arranging method.

A method of providing item picking information by a manager terminal, wherein the manager terminal is configured to communicate with an electronic apparatus via a network, the method comprising:

• identifying, by a processor of the manager terminal, information regarding a picking event, the information regarding the picking event comprising location information of a tote;
• providing, via a communication port of the manager terminal, storage place information corresponding to the picking event over the network to the electronic apparatus;
• identifying identification information of a storage place based on scanning a first machine-readable code at the storage place, the first machine-readable code at the storage place unique to the storage place;
• scanning, via a scanner of the manager terminal, an item at the storage place based on the information regarding the picking event to generate item information corresponding to the picking event;
• scanning, via the scanner of the manager terminal, a second machine-readable code attached to the tote, the second machine-readable code including the information regarding the tote;
• and
• providing, via the communication port, item information corresponding to the picking event and the information regarding the tote over the network to the electronic apparatus,
• wherein the generated item information includes information regarding the scanned item included in different item groups located in the storage place,
• wherein the information regarding the picking event comprises information regarding a quantity of a first item to be picked,
• wherein the storage place comprises a storage place storing at least the quantity of the first item to be picked, and
• wherein, in response to no storage place storing at least the quantity of the first item to be picked, the storage place comprises a first storage place storing a quantity of the first item closest to the quantity of the first item to be picked and a second storage place comprising an item group corresponding to an earliest warehousing order among storage places in which the first item is located.