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US 2015/0307278 A1Published application
Method and system for order fulfillment
AssigneeFlextronics AP, LLC
InventorsBrian F. Wickham, Marco Minella
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Abstract
A method and system for order fulfillment is disclosed. In one embodiment, the order fulfillment system aggregates and consolidates the picking of products in a wave picking process, followed by a consolidated sortation system to enable automatic sorting of picked items by order.
Claims18
A method of fulfilling a customer order request, the method comprising:
- receiving a customer request to fulfill a plurality of orders, wherein each order comprises one or more parts;
- storing the customer request;
- de-consolidating the customer request wherein the one or more parts of each of the plurality of orders are de-consolidated from the respective order;
- grouping the one or more parts of each of the plurality of orders into picking waves;
- directing an equipment subsystem to pick the picking waves;
- and
- fulfilling the customer order.
4 more elements
A system to fulfill a customer order request, the system comprising:
- a warehouse management system configured to:
- receive a customer request to fulfill a plurality of orders, wherein each order comprises one or more parts;
- store the customer request;
- de-consolidate the customer request wherein the one or more parts of each of the plurality of orders are de-consolidated from the respective order;
- group the one or more parts of each of the plurality of orders into picking waves;
- and
- create a picking wave directive;
- and
- an equipment subsystem configured to fulfill a plurality of orders, the equipment subsystem configured to:
- receive a picking wave directive from a warehouse management system;
- and fulfill the customer order.
8 more elements
The system of claim 101, wherein the picking waves are influenced by a state of an environment where the one or more parts of each order are located.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.