Warehouse management system and method

Abstract

A warehouse management system and method are provided. The warehouse management system includes a control server (110), a carrying apparatus (120), and a workstation (130). The workstation (130) is provided with a temporary goods storage region (1301). The control server (110) is configured to determine a goods inventory location of first goods according to a quantity of the first goods hit by a to-be-processed order set, determine a first carrying apparatus for carrying the first goods and a first workstation for picking the first goods, send a first carrying instruction to the first carrying apparatus, and send a first to-be-processed order which hits the first goods in the to-be-processed order set to the first workstation. The first carrying apparatus is configured to move to the goods inventory location and carry the first goods to the first workstation in response to the first carrying instruction. The first workstation is configured to shelve the first goods to the temporary goods storage region (1301) of the first workstation, and pick the first goods from the temporary goods storage region (1301) based on the first to-be-processed order.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.