CN117963393A - Order processing method, device and warehousing system - Google Patents

Abstract

The application relates to the technical field of intelligent warehousing and discloses an order processing method, an order processing device and a warehousing system. The order processing method comprises the following steps: acquiring a plurality of to-be-processed orders, and performing pre-hit according to the plurality of to-be-processed orders, so as to determine a plurality of pre-hit containers and a plurality of pre-hit carriers corresponding to the plurality of to-be-processed orders; determining at least one target carrier and a target order corresponding to each target carrier in the plurality of pre-hit carriers; determining a plurality of target containers for placing goods required by the target order based on the target order; controlling a tally workstation to convey a target container placed on a to-be-tally carrier to the target carrier; and controlling the picking workstation to pick goods required by the target order on the target carrier according to the target carrier and/or the target order. The order processing method provided by the embodiment of the application can feed the target carrier and the target order obtained in the tallying stage back to the subsequent actual hit and dispatch stage, and can improve the picking efficiency of the warehousing system.

Description

Order processing method, device and warehousing system

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of intelligent warehousing, in particular to an order processing method, an order processing device and a warehousing system.

Background

In the warehouse system, the control device can determine the hit container according to the order, and control the carrying equipment to carry the hit carrier with the hit container to the picking workstation for picking. When the containers hit by the order are distributed on a plurality of different carriers, the carrier can hit a small number of containers once by carrying the hit carrier, and the order can be picked only by carrying the hit carrier to the picking workstation for a plurality of times by carrying the hit carrier, so that the picking efficiency of the warehouse system is lower.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve the above problems, the embodiments of the present application provide an order processing method, an order processing device, and a warehousing system, which can improve the picking efficiency of the warehousing system by feeding back the target carrier and the target order obtained in the tallying stage to the subsequent actual hit and dispatch stage. Specifically, the embodiment of the application discloses the following technical scheme:

An embodiment of the present application provides an order processing method, applied to a control device, where the method includes: firstly, acquiring a plurality of to-be-processed orders, and performing pre-hit according to the plurality of to-be-processed orders, and determining a plurality of pre-hit containers and a plurality of pre-hit carriers corresponding to the plurality of to-be-processed orders; wherein, the pre-hit carrier is a carrier for placing the pre-hit container; secondly, determining at least one target carrier in the plurality of pre-hit carriers, and determining a target order corresponding to each target carrier in the plurality of to-be-processed orders; the target carrier is used for placing goods required by the target order; determining a plurality of target containers for placing goods required by the target order based on the target order; then, controlling the carrying equipment to carry at least one to-be-sorted carrier and the target carrier which are used for placing a plurality of target containers to a sorting work station respectively, and controlling the sorting work station to carry the target containers placed on the to-be-sorted carriers to the target carriers; finally, according to the target carrier and/or the target order, the carrying equipment is controlled to carry the target carrier to the picking work station, and the picking work station is controlled to pick the goods required by the target order on the target carrier.

In some embodiments, the determining at least one target carrier among the plurality of pre-hit carriers includes: determining hit parameters corresponding to all the pre-hit carriers; the hit parameters include at least one of a number of complete hit orders, hit rate, and a number of hit containers; and determining at least one target carrier in the plurality of pre-hit carriers according to the hit parameters corresponding to the pre-hit carriers.

In some embodiments, the determining at least one target carrier among the plurality of pre-hit carriers according to the hit parameters corresponding to each pre-hit carrier includes: determining a pre-hit carrier with hit parameters exceeding threshold parameters as a target carrier; or sorting the hit parameters from large to small, and determining the pre-hit carriers which are sorted to be the front as target carriers according to the sorting result.

In some embodiments, determining the target order corresponding to each target carrier in the plurality of pending orders includes: determining a to-be-processed order which hits a container placed on a target carrier as a target order in a plurality of to-be-processed orders; and if the number of the target containers required by the to-be-processed orders which hit the placed containers on the target carrier is smaller than the threshold number, determining the to-be-processed orders which miss the placed containers on the target carrier in the to-be-processed orders as target orders.

In some embodiments, determining a plurality of target containers for placing goods required for the target order based on the target order includes: determining a plurality of candidate containers and a plurality of candidate vehicles for target order hits based on the target order; the candidate carrier is a carrier for placing the candidate container; and determining a to-be-sorted carrier among the plurality of candidate carriers based on the cargo information of the cargo placed on each candidate carrier and the cargo information of the cargo placed on the target carrier, and determining the candidate container on the to-be-sorted carrier as the target container.

In some embodiments, the cargo information includes a cargo type, and determining a cargo to be managed among the plurality of candidate vehicles based on the cargo information of the cargo placed on each candidate vehicle and the cargo information of the cargo placed on the target vehicle includes: and determining the candidate carrier with the similar or same cargo type as the cargo placed on the target carrier as the cargo to be managed.

In some embodiments, the controlling the tally workstation to transfer the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier to the target carrier includes: under the condition that an idle cargo space exists on the target carrier, controlling a cargo handling workstation to carry the target container placed on the target carrier to the idle cargo space of the target carrier; under the condition that no idle goods space exists on the target carrier, the tally workstation is controlled to exchange the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier with the non-hit container placed on the target carrier so as to convey the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier to the target carrier.

In some embodiments, the controlling the tally workstation exchanges the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier with the non-hit container placed on the target carrier to transfer the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier to the target carrier, includes: under the condition that an idle cargo space exists on the to-be-managed cargo carrier, controlling a cargo management workstation to convey the non-hit container placed on the target carrier to the idle cargo space of the to-be-managed cargo carrier, and then conveying the target container placed on the to-be-managed cargo carrier to the original cargo space of the non-hit container on the target carrier; under the condition that no idle goods space exists on the to-be-managed carrier, the management workstation is controlled to convey the non-hit container placed on the target carrier to the cache position of the management workstation, and then the target container placed on the to-be-managed carrier is conveyed to the original goods space of the non-hit container on the target carrier.

In some embodiments, controlling the handling device to handle the target carrier to the picking station according to the target carrier and/or the target order, and controlling the picking station to pick the goods required by the target order on the target carrier includes: performing actual hit on the target order, and determining a target carrier and a target container hit by the target order; the control handling equipment is used for handling the target carrier to the picking work station and controlling the picking work station to pick the goods placed in the target container on the target carrier.

In some embodiments, the above method further comprises: carrying out actual hit on the unreasonable order, and determining a first hit carrier with the largest number of hit unreasonable orders; the control handling equipment is used for handling the first hit carrier to the picking work station, and the picking work station is controlled to pick goods required by the unreasonable order on the first hit carrier according to the unreasonable order.

In some embodiments, controlling the handling device to handle the target carrier to the picking station according to the target carrier and/or the target order, and controlling the picking station to pick the goods required by the target order on the target carrier includes: according to the actual hit of the multiple orders to be processed, determining a second hit carrier with the largest hit order number; the second hit carrier includes a target carrier; the control handling equipment is used for handling the target carrier to the picking work station, and the picking work station is controlled to pick goods required by the target order on the target carrier according to the target order.

A second aspect of an embodiment of the present application provides a warehousing system, including: a plurality of carriers including at least one target carrier; a control device configured to: acquiring a plurality of to-be-processed orders, performing pre-hit according to the plurality of to-be-processed orders, and determining a plurality of pre-hit containers and a plurality of pre-hit carriers corresponding to the plurality of to-be-processed orders in a plurality of carriers; determining at least one target carrier in the plurality of pre-hit carriers, and determining a target order corresponding to each target carrier in the plurality of pending orders; determining a plurality of target containers for placing goods required by the target order based on the target order; generating a first carrying instruction and a tally instruction based on the target order and the plurality of target containers, and generating a second carrying instruction and a first picking instruction based on the target carrier and/or the target order; the target carrier is used for placing goods required by the target order; a handling device configured to handle at least one to-be-handled carrier or target carrier, on which a plurality of target containers are placed, to a handling workstation based on the first handling instruction; and carrying the target carrier to the picking workstation based on the second carrying instruction; based on the tally instruction, carrying the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier to the target carrier; and a picking workstation configured to pick the goods required by the target order on the target carrier based on the first picking instruction.

A third aspect of an embodiment of the present application provides an order processing apparatus, including: and the acquisition module is configured to acquire a plurality of pending orders. The pre-hit module is configured to pre-hit the plurality of pending orders and determine a plurality of pre-hit containers and a plurality of pre-hit carriers corresponding to the plurality of pending orders; the pre-hit carrier is a carrier for placing the pre-hit container. A determining module configured to determine at least one target carrier among the plurality of pre-hit carriers and determine a target order corresponding to each target carrier among the plurality of pending orders; the target carrier is used for placing goods required by the target order; and determining a plurality of target containers for placing goods required for the target order based on the target order. The control module is configured to control the carrying equipment to carry at least one to-be-sorted carrier and the target carrier which are used for placing a plurality of target containers to the sorting work station respectively, and control the sorting work station to carry the target containers placed on the to-be-sorted carriers to the target carriers. The control module is further configured to control the carrying equipment to carry the target carrier to the picking work station according to the target carrier and/or the target order, and control the picking work station to pick goods required by the target order on the target carrier.

A fourth aspect of an embodiment of the present application provides an electronic device, including: a processor and a memory for storing computer executable instructions; and a processor for reading the instructions from the memory and executing the instructions to implement the order processing method of any of the preceding aspects.

A fifth aspect of an embodiment of the present application provides a computer-readable storage medium storing computer program instructions that, when read by a computer, perform the order processing method of any one of the preceding aspects.

A sixth aspect of an embodiment of the present application provides a computer program product comprising a computer program stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the computer program comprising program instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the order processing method of any of the preceding aspects.

According to the order processing method provided by the embodiment of the application, the known multiple orders to be processed are pre-hit, the target carrier and the target orders corresponding to the target carrier are determined from the pre-hit carriers, and the target containers on the carriers to be processed are processed on the target carrier at the processing work station, so that the target containers hit by the target orders are placed on the target carrier. In the picking stage, actual order and dispatch of orders can be performed based on the target carriers and target orders obtained through tallying. The application can feed the target carrier and the target order obtained in the tallying stage back to the subsequent actual assignment and dispatch stage, so that the target order for completing tallying can preempt the corresponding goods on the target carrier; and the target order for finishing the tally is dispatched preferentially when dispatching, so that the result of the tally cannot be disturbed in subsequent picking can be ensured, the expected effect in the tally stage can be realized in the picking stage, the robot consumed in the tally stage and the working time of the workstation can bring the maximized benefit to the picking stage, and the operation efficiency of the warehouse system is greatly improved while the picking efficiency is improved. In addition, the goods required by the target order are physically arranged on the target carrier, so that when the picking workstation picks the goods required by the target order, all target containers of the target carrier can be hit, the benefit of carrying the target carrier once is high, and the picking efficiency can be further improved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings that are needed in the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and that other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a warehousing system according to some embodiments of the application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a workstation according to some embodiments of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of an order processing method according to some embodiments of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a flow chart of another order processing method according to some embodiments of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a flow chart of another order processing method according to some embodiments of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a flow chart of yet another order processing method according to some embodiments of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a flow chart of yet another order processing method according to some embodiments of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of an order processing apparatus according to some embodiments of the present application;

Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of an electronic device according to some embodiments of the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to better understand the technical solution in the embodiments of the present invention and make the above objects, features and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention more comprehensible, the technical solution in the embodiments of the present invention is described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In general, a carrier device (such as a carrier robot) may carry a carrier in which a container hit by an order is located to a workstation for picking. When the hit rate of the containers on the carrier is higher, the carrier device can hit more containers by carrying the carrier once, so that the carrying efficiency and the picking efficiency are higher.

Since some orders are known in advance in actual production, idle time ordering can be performed on known orders before picking begins, so that the hit rate of containers on the carrier is improved. However, after finishing the tally in the tally stage, any inventory meeting the conditions can be hit when the order hit is performed in the picking stage, and the inventory of the tally is not necessarily hit; and the order of finishing the tally is not centralized to be processed when the order is dispatched. That is, when order hits and dispatches are performed in the picking stage, the order for which the tally is completed in the tally stage is completely imperceptible, so that the effect of the tally stage is greatly reduced and even becomes idle.

For example, knowing the information of 100 orders in advance, part of the 100 orders or all the 100 orders can be ordered at idle time, the number of the ordered orders is related to time and equipment resources in a warehouse system, and the specific number of the ordered orders is not limited by the application. Taking the example of a 30 order tally limited by time and equipment resources, orders that have been completed in the picking stage are not preferentially processed because it is not clear in the picking stage which order the tally is for the tally stage. Along with order picking, the shelves corresponding to the orders for which the tally is completed are disturbed due to picking of other orders, so that robot and workstation man-hours consumed in the tally stage do not bring benefit to the picking stage, and the efficiency of the warehousing system is reduced.

In order to solve the technical problems, the application provides an order processing method, which feeds back a target carrier and a target order obtained in a tallying stage to a subsequent actual naming and dispatching stage, so that the target order for completing tallying can preempt goods on a corresponding target carrier preferentially; and the target order for finishing the tally is preferentially dispatched when dispatching, so that the follow-up picking can not disturb the result of the tally, the tally stage is ensured to bring larger benefit to the picking stage, and the goods picking efficiency is improved.

The warehousing system provided by the embodiment of the application is described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a warehousing system according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 1, the warehouse system 100 includes a plurality of carriers 10, a carrier docking area 20, at least one workstation 30, a plurality of handling equipment 40, and a control device (not shown in fig. 1).

Illustratively, the carrier 10 may include a plurality of memory bits. The storage location may be used for placing a container, a bin, or a cargo directly, or an original bin of the cargo, which is not limited in this embodiment, and the following embodiment is schematically illustrated by taking the storage location for placing a container as an example.

For example, the storage bits may be a rectangular parallelepiped-shaped accommodation space, and the plurality of storage bits on the carrier 10 may be aligned along the length direction, the width direction, and the height direction of the carrier 10. The container may be a matched product specifically designed for the carrier 10, a common container (also referred to as a bin), or a package of goods (also referred to as an original bin), which is not limited by the embodiment of the present application.

In some examples, carrier 10 may be a movable carrier that includes a movable shelf. The movable shelf includes at least one layer of partition board, the at least one layer of partition board divides the carrier 10 into at least two layers, at least one storage position is provided on the partition board of the carrier 10, each storage position can accommodate at least one container, the container placed on each storage position can be a container or a tray, and the embodiment of the application is not limited to this. Carrier 10 includes, but is not limited to, a shelf, a container shelf, a picking shelf, a movable shelf, and the like. The carrier 10 provided in the embodiments of the present application may refer to any carrier for placing containers.

In some examples, the carrier 10 may be a densely stored shelf or a non-densely stored shelf. When the carrier 10 is a densely packed pallet, the gap between containers is small. For example, the carrier 10 may rest on a shelf area, which may also be referred to as an inventory area, which may be a dense storage area or a non-dense storage area. Wherein, the shelf area can include a plurality of berths, and a plurality of berths can be neatly distributed according to the range. Each dock may be used to dock one of the carriers 10.

In some examples, the carrier 10 may be a single-sided carrier, a double-sided carrier, or a four-sided carrier (i.e., a container can be taken from four sides of the carrier), which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application. For example, when the carrier 10 is a double-sided rack, a barrier may be provided between a plurality of cargo spaces of the carrier 10 in the vertical direction; each side of carrier 10 may be provided with 30 memory bits and a total of 60 memory bits. For another example, when the carrier 10 is a four-sided rack, a barrier may be provided between a plurality of cargo spaces of the carrier 10 in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction, and containers may be taken from four sides of the carrier 10. The type of carrier 10 and the number of memory bits included in the embodiments of the present application are not limited and are only schematically illustrated herein.

In some embodiments, the number of workstations 30 in the warehouse system 100 may be one or more, which is not limited in this embodiment. The following embodiments are exemplified by a warehousing system 100 including a plurality of workstations 30.

In some embodiments, the picking station 30b and the sorting station 30a in the warehouse system may be the same station or different stations, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application. When the tally station 30a and the pick station 30b are the same station, the stations have both the tally function and the pick function. The picking station may also be referred to as a pick station.

In some examples, the tally workstation 30a and the pick workstation 30b may be divided according to the functionality of the workstation 30. For example, when the workstation 30 is used for tallying, the workstation 30 may be referred to as a tallying workstation 30a; when a workstation 30 is used for picking, the workstation 30 may be referred to as a picking workstation 30b.

In other examples, the tally station 30a and the pick station 30b may be different stations. For example, among the plurality of work stations 30, a part of work stations are the sorting work stations 30a, and another part of work stations are the picking work stations 30b.

Illustratively, each workstation 30 in the warehousing system 100 may be correspondingly provided with one or more carrier docking areas 20, in which carrier docking areas 20 carriers 10 are docked. The handling device 40 may handle the carrier 10 from the shelf area to the corresponding carrier docking area 20 of the workstation 30, so that the workstation 30 may take out containers on the carrier 10 or place the containers on the storage location of the carrier 10.

In some examples, the carrier docking area 20 is located between the shelf area and the workstation 30, e.g., the carrier docking area 20 may be disposed on one side of the workstation 30 such that the workstation 30 takes and places containers 50 on carriers 10 docked in the carrier docking area 20.

In some examples, the vehicle docking area 20 includes one or more docking stations for docking the vehicle 10. For example, one workstation 30 may correspond to one docking station, or one workstation 30 may correspond to a plurality of docking stations, which is not limited by the embodiment of the present application, and fig. 1 is schematically illustrated with one workstation 30 corresponding to two docking stations. In some examples, the number of docking positions corresponding to the workstation 30 is related to the number of container pickup devices 33 included in the workstation 30, and when the workstation 30 includes two container pickup devices 33, two docking positions may be disposed on one side of the workstation 30, and the two container pickup devices 33 are respectively used for picking and placing containers on carriers docked on the corresponding docking positions.

Illustratively, the handling device 40, which may also be referred to as an automated handling device or carrier handling device, is used for handling the carrier 10. For example, the handling equipment 40 may handle the carrier 10 between a shelf area in the warehouse and the carrier docking area 20.

In some examples, the handling device 40 may be a handling robot, such as an automatic guided vehicle (Automated Guided Vehicle, AGV). For example, the transfer robot may run under the carrier 10 and then lift the carrier 10 up off the ground, so that the carrier 10 may be supported for movement.

The control device may be a server or a terminal device, or may be a device in which a warehouse management system (Warehouse MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, WMS) and a Robot management system (Robot MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, RMS) are disposed, for example. The terminal equipment can comprise at least one of a personal computer, a notebook computer, a smart phone, a tablet computer and portable wearable equipment; the server may comprise an independent server or a server cluster formed by a plurality of servers, which is not limited by the embodiment of the present application.

In some examples, the control means may be communicatively coupled to the workstation 30 and the handling device 40, respectively, for controlling the operation of the workstation 30 and the handling device 40. For example, the control device may be communicatively connected to each of the transport devices 40 and each of the workstations 30 via a local area network (Local Area Network, LAN), a wireless local area network (Wireless Local Area Network, WLAN), or other networks, and may control the transport devices 40 to move and transport the carriers 10, or may control the workstations 30 to perform operations such as sorting and picking the carriers 10 parked at the parking positions.

In some embodiments, the control device is configured to: acquiring a plurality of to-be-processed orders, and performing pre-hit according to the plurality of to-be-processed orders, so as to determine a plurality of pre-hit containers and a plurality of pre-hit carriers corresponding to the plurality of to-be-processed orders; determining at least one target carrier in the plurality of pre-hit carriers, and determining a target order corresponding to each target carrier in the plurality of pending orders; determining a plurality of target containers for placing goods required by the target order based on the target order; generating a first carrying instruction and a tally instruction based on the target order and the plurality of target containers, and generating a second carrying instruction and a first picking instruction based on the target carrier and/or the target order; wherein the target carrier is used for placing goods required by the target order.

A handling device 40 configured to handle at least one to-be-handled carrier or target carrier, on which a plurality of target containers are placed, to a tally workstation based on the first handling instruction; and carrying the target carrier to the picking workstation based on the second carrying instruction.

The tally workstation 30a is configured to carry the target container placed on the target carrier to be tally to the target carrier based on the tally instruction, so that the goods required for the target order are placed on the target carrier for which the tally is completed.

A picking workstation 30b configured to pick the goods required for the target order on the target carrier based on the first picking instruction.

Illustratively, a workstation 30 (e.g., a tally workstation 30a or a pick workstation 30 b) may remove containers from a carrier 10 (e.g., a target carrier or a carrier to be handled) at a carrier docking area 20, and may also place containers on a carrier 10 at a carrier docking area 20.

Fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a workstation according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 2, the workstation 30 includes a support frame 31, a guide mechanism 32, a container pick-and-place device 33, and a buffer station (not shown in fig. 2). The buffer position may be set to the support 31 or the guide mechanism 32.

In some examples, the guide mechanism 32 is provided to the support frame 31. The guide mechanism 32 is movable laterally and vertically relative to the support frame 31. The container pickup device 33 is provided to the guide mechanism 32 so that the container pickup device 33 can be moved laterally and/or vertically with respect to the support frame 31.

In some examples, the container handling device 33 is coupled to a control device. When the carrier 10 is carried by the carrying device 40 to the carrier docking area 20 corresponding to the workstation 30 under the control of the control device, the container picking and placing device 33 moves laterally (e.g., in the L direction) and/or vertically (e.g., in the H direction) to reach a position corresponding to the storage location 15 in the carrier 10, so as to pick and place the container 50 at the storage location 15.

Illustratively, the guide mechanism 32 may include a lateral movement device 34, a movement rod 35, and a vertical movement device 36. Wherein the lateral movement device 34 is provided to the support frame 31. The lateral movement device 34 is coupled to the control device. The lateral movement device 34 is laterally movable with respect to the support frame 31. The moving rod 35 extends in the vertical direction, and the moving rod 35 is provided to the lateral moving device 34 so that the moving rod 35 can move laterally with respect to the support frame 31. A vertical moving device 36 is provided to the moving rod 35. The vertical movement device 36 is coupled to the control device. The vertical movement device 36 is vertically movable with respect to the movement rod 35. The container pickup device 33 is provided to the vertical moving device 36 so that the container pickup device 33 can move vertically with respect to the moving rod 35. Thus, the container handling device 33 can be moved laterally and/or vertically on the support frame 31.

In some examples, cache bits may be used to place containers 50. For example, the container handling device 33 may move the container 50 between different storage locations 15, or between a storage location 15 and a cache location, to thereby enable adjustment of the storage location of the container 50 on the same carrier 10, or may also enable movement of the container 50 between multiple carriers 10.

In some examples, the workstation 30 may not be provided with the support frame 31. When the workstation 30 is not provided with the support frame 31, the container pickup device 33 may be moved laterally and/or vertically by the guide mechanism 32.

In some embodiments, when the workstation 30 is not provided with the support frame 31, the workstation 30 may include at least one guide mechanism 32 and a container handling device 33. The container pickup device 33 is provided on the guide mechanism 32, and the container pickup device 33 can be moved laterally and/or vertically by the guide mechanism 32.

In some examples, the guide mechanism 32 may be a robotic arm (which may also be referred to as an automated robotic arm) to which the container handling device 33 may be coupled, and the container handling device 33 may be moved laterally and/or vertically by the robotic arm (e.g., the robotic arm may move laterally and/or vertically with the container handling device 33). The mechanical arm may be fixed on the ground or the guide rail, for example, the mechanical arm may be permanently fixed on the ground or the guide rail, or may be temporarily fixed on the ground or the guide rail, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

An exemplary method for processing an order according to an embodiment of the present application is described below with reference to fig. 1 and 2.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart of an order processing method according to an embodiment of the present application, where the method is applied to the control device, as shown in fig. 3, and the method includes the following steps 301 to 305.

Step 301, obtaining a plurality of pending orders, and performing pre-hit according to the plurality of pending orders, to determine a plurality of pre-hit containers and a plurality of pre-hit carriers corresponding to the plurality of pending orders.

The pre-hit carrier is a carrier for placing the pre-hit container.

For example, the to-be-processed order may be an order known in advance by the warehouse system, and after the to-be-processed order known in advance by the warehouse system is acquired, in order to improve the picking efficiency, some or all of the to-be-processed orders in the plurality of to-be-processed orders may be ordered at leisure. The embodiment of the application does not limit the number of the orders for tallying in the orders to be processed, and the number is related to a plurality of factors such as the idle time of the warehousing system, the number of the equipment in the warehousing system, the equipment resource condition and the like.

Before the orders known in the warehouse system are ordered, the orders can be pre-hit to determine a pre-hit container corresponding to each pending order, and a pre-hit carrier for placing the pre-hit container. It will be appreciated that upon a pre-hit of an order to be processed, the container in which the goods required for the order to be processed is stored may be determined as the pre-hit container for the order to be processed.

In some examples, an order to be processed may correspond to one pre-hit container or may correspond to a plurality of pre-hit containers, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application, and the number of pre-hit containers corresponding to an order to be processed is related to parameters such as the type of goods, the number of goods, and the like required for the order to be processed.

When the number of the pre-hit containers corresponding to the order to be processed is plural, the plural pre-hit containers may be placed on the same carrier or may be placed on plural carriers. That is, the number of the pre-hit carriers corresponding to one to-be-processed order may be one or more, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

Step 302, determining at least one target carrier among the plurality of pre-hit carriers, and determining a target order corresponding to each target carrier among the plurality of pending orders.

Illustratively, the target carrier is used to place goods required for the target order. After the target carrier is determined, goods required by the target order can be placed on the target carrier, so that the hit rate of the target carrier is improved, more containers on the target carrier can be selected at one time when the target carrier is selected at the selecting workstation, and the selecting efficiency is improved.

In some embodiments, one or more target carriers may be determined randomly among the plurality of pre-hit carriers, or the target carriers may be determined among the plurality of pre-hit carriers based on hit parameters, so as to improve leverage of the target carriers, thereby improving cargo handling efficiency. The hit parameters include, but are not limited to, at least one of a number of complete hit orders, hit rate, and a number of hit containers. For example, the target carrier may be determined among the plurality of pre-hit carriers based on hit parameters such as the number of orders hit on each pre-hit carrier (or the number of full hit orders), the number of hit containers on each pre-hit carrier, the hit rate of each pre-hit carrier, and the like.

Illustratively, determining at least one target carrier among the plurality of pre-hit carriers may include: determining hit parameters corresponding to all the pre-hit carriers; and determining at least one target carrier in the plurality of pre-hit carriers according to the hit parameters corresponding to the pre-hit carriers.

Illustratively, determining at least one target carrier among the plurality of pre-hit carriers according to the hit parameters corresponding to each pre-hit carrier comprises: determining a pre-hit carrier with hit parameters exceeding threshold parameters as a target carrier; or sorting the hit parameters from large to small, and determining the pre-hit carriers which are sorted to be the front as target carriers according to the sorting result.

In other embodiments, instead of determining the target carrier in the pre-hit carrier, an empty carrier may be used as the target carrier, but the efficiency of the cargo handling is relatively high because fewer containers need to be handled because there are order-hit containers on the pre-hit carrier than on the pre-hit carrier.

In some examples, taking the hit parameter as a full hit order as an example, a full hit order corresponding to a pre-hit vehicle refers to that the goods stored on the pre-hit vehicle include all the goods required for the order, i.e., the pre-hit vehicle may hit all the goods required for the order. By determining whether each pre-hit carrier includes all of the required goods for the order to be processed, when the pre-hit carrier includes all of the required goods for the order to be processed, the order to be processed is a full hit order corresponding to the pre-hit carrier.

After determining the number of complete hits orders corresponding to each of the pre-hit carriers, the pre-hit carrier having the largest number of complete hits orders may be determined as the target carrier, or the pre-hit carrier having the number of complete hits orders exceeding the threshold number may be determined as the target carrier. In some examples, the target vehicle may be multiple, then the pre-hit vehicles may be ordered from more to less according to the number of full hit orders, and the top number of full hit orders may be determined as the target vehicle. The pre-hit carriers with a large number of completely hit orders are determined as target carriers, so that fewer containers which need to be transported to the target carriers for tallying are ensured during tallying, and the tallying efficiency can be further improved.

For example, taking 100 orders as pre-known to-be-processed orders as an example, by pre-hit the 100 orders, if 20 orders can be completely hit on the carrier a, 15 orders can be completely hit on the carrier B, and 2 orders can be completely hit on the carrier C, the carrier a can be determined as the target carrier; carrier a and carrier B may also be determined as target carriers.

Illustratively, taking the hit parameter as the hit rate as an example, the hit rate of the pre-hit carrier may be the ratio of hit containers to all containers on the pre-hit carrier, and the greater the number of hit containers on the pre-hit carrier, the higher the hit rate of the pre-hit carrier. After determining the hit rate of each of the pre-hit carriers, the pre-hit carrier having the highest hit rate may be determined as the target carrier, or the pre-hit carrier having the hit rate exceeding the threshold hit rate may be determined as the target carrier. In some examples, the target carrier may be multiple, then the pre-hit carriers may be ordered from high to low hit rate, and the top hit rate of the multiple pre-hit carriers is determined to be the target carrier. The pre-hit carrier with high hit rate is determined as the target carrier, so that fewer containers which need to be transported to the target carrier for tallying are ensured during tallying, and the tallying efficiency can be further improved.

In some embodiments, at least one target carrier may also be determined among the plurality of pre-hit carriers based on the number of hit containers. For example, a pre-hit vehicle having a large number of hit containers is determined as the target vehicle. The embodiment of the present application is not limited to a specific manner of determining at least one target carrier from a plurality of pre-hit carriers.

For example, because of the limited number of containers and goods that carriers in a warehouse system can accommodate, for example, a target carrier is a double sided pallet, one side of the pallet can store 30 containers, and two sides can store 60 containers, so that a target carrier can accommodate a limited number of goods required for an order. Therefore, after the target carrier is determined, the target order corresponding to the target carrier can be further determined from the plurality of to-be-processed orders, so that goods required by the target order can be all processed on the target carrier during the process of tallying. The target carrier and the target order can be bound, so that the goods which are required by the target order are placed on the target carrier after finishing the tallying.

The number of target orders corresponding to the target carriers may be one or more, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application. When determining the target order corresponding to the target carrier, the order hitting the container placed on the target carrier may be preferentially determined as the target order, and then the order not hitting the container placed on the target carrier may be determined as the target order. The order of the required goods on the target carrier is selected as the target order, and the order of the required goods which is not on the target carrier is considered, so that the number of containers required to be tidied can be further reduced, and the tidying efficiency is improved.

Illustratively, determining a target order corresponding to each target carrier in the plurality of pending orders includes: among the plurality of pending orders, preferentially determining the pending order hitting the placed container on the target carrier as a target order; and if the number of the target containers required by the to-be-processed orders which hit the placed containers on the target carrier is smaller than the threshold number, determining the to-be-processed orders which miss the placed containers on the target carrier in the to-be-processed orders as target orders.

Since the vehicle with the largest number of complete hits to the order can be determined as the target vehicle or the vehicle with the highest hit rate can be determined as the target vehicle when determining the target vehicle, the goods required for the partial order have been placed on the target vehicle. When determining the target order corresponding to the target carrier, the target order corresponding to the target carrier can be determined from a plurality of pending orders according to whether the order hits the placed containers on the target carrier and the number of the placed containers on the target carrier.

For example, according to the number of placed containers on the target carrier hit by the order to be processed from more to less, the order with the largest number of placed containers on the target carrier is preferentially determined as the target order corresponding to the target carrier; it is then determined whether the number of target containers required for the target order exceeds a threshold number (i.e., the maximum number of containers that the target vehicle can accommodate, such as 60 containers). If the number of the containers does not exceed the threshold number, determining the orders with more than the number of the placed containers on the target carrier as target orders corresponding to the target carrier, and further judging whether the number of the containers required by the determined target orders exceeds the threshold number; and so on until a plurality of target orders are determined and the number of containers required for the plurality of target orders is less than or equal to the maximum threshold number that the target vehicle can accommodate. In some examples, the number of target orders corresponding to the target carriers may be one or more, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

For another example, according to whether all goods required by the order to be processed are on the target carrier, the order which is completely hit (i.e. all goods required by the order to be processed are on the target carrier) can be preferentially determined as the target order corresponding to the target carrier; it is then determined whether the number of target receptacles required to completely hit the order exceeds a threshold number (i.e., the maximum number of receptacles that the target carrier can accommodate, such as 60 receptacles). If the number of the containers needed by the determined target order exceeds the threshold number, determining the order of the part of cargoes on the target carrier needed by the to-be-processed order as the target order corresponding to the target carrier; if the threshold value is not exceeded, determining the to-be-processed order which does not hit the container placed on the target carrier in the to-be-processed order (namely, the goods required by the to-be-processed order are not on the target carrier) as the target order corresponding to the target carrier.

That is, by determining whether the required cargo for the pending order is on the target carrier, the pending order where there is an intersection between the required cargo and the cargo already placed on the target carrier can be preferentially determined as the target order. Therefore, when goods required by the target order are ordered, the number of containers required to be ordered on the target carrier can be reduced, and the ordering efficiency is improved.

Step 303, determining a plurality of target containers for placing goods required by the target order based on the target order.

After determining the target carrier and the target order corresponding to the target carrier, a target container corresponding to the target order may be further determined. The target container is a container for placing goods required by the target order, and the target container may be a container on a target carrier or a container on a to-be-managed goods carrier different from the target carrier (also referred to as a to-be-managed container).

Illustratively, since any one of the target minimum inventory units (Stock Keeping Unit, SKU) required for a target order is likely to be placed on a number of different carriers, it is desirable to determine from which carrier to sort the target SKU onto the target carrier. If a carrier with a target SKU is randomly selected as the carrier to be sorted, the target container with the target SKU may be disordered after being sorted onto the target carrier, resulting in disordered cargo types on the carrier. Therefore, in order to further ensure the tallying effect, the carriers to be tallied and the target containers can be determined according to the cargo information.

Fig. 4 is a flowchart of another order processing method provided in the application embodiment, as shown in fig. 4, the step 303 includes steps 3031 to 3032.

Step 3031, a plurality of candidate containers and a plurality of candidate vehicles for target order hits are determined based on the target order.

The candidate container is a container for placing goods required by the target order, and the candidate container may be a container on the target carrier or a container on a carrier other than the target carrier.

For example, with SKUs required for the target order being SKU1 and SKU2, SKUs placed on the target carrier being SKU2 and SKU3, the candidate container may be determined to be the container holding SKU 1. If the carrier 1 comprises a container A for storing the SKU1 and a container B for storing the SKU3, the carrier 2 comprises a container C for storing the SKU1 and a container D for storing the SKU 4; then it may be determined that the candidate containers are container a and container C and that the candidate carriers are carrier 1 and carrier 2.

Illustratively, when the candidate container is a container on the target carrier, the candidate container is the target container; when the candidate container is not a container on the target carrier, the to-be-sorted carrier needs to be determined from the candidate carriers according to the cargo information, so that the target container on the to-be-sorted carrier (the candidate container on the to-be-sorted carrier is the target container) is sorted onto the target carrier, and most or even all of the containers placed on the target carrier are the target containers.

Step 3032, determining a to-be-sorted carrier among the plurality of candidate carriers based on the cargo information of the cargo placed on each candidate carrier and the cargo information of the cargo placed on the target carrier, and determining the candidate container on the to-be-sorted carrier as the target container.

For example, when determining a to-be-sorted carrier from a candidate carrier different from the target carrier, in order to ensure that the original shelf (such as the to-be-sorted carrier) is not disturbed after sorting the target container on the to-be-sorted carrier onto the target carrier, when the same SKU required by the target order is placed on a plurality of candidate carriers, the candidate carrier whose cargo type is close to or the same as that placed on the target carrier is determined as the target carrier according to the cargo information of the cargo placed on the plurality of candidate carriers and the cargo information of the cargo placed on the target carrier.

In some examples, taking the cargo information as the cargo type, the determining the cargo to be managed among the plurality of candidate carriers based on the cargo information of the cargo placed on each candidate carrier and the cargo information of the cargo placed on the target carrier includes: and determining the candidate carrier with the same or similar cargo type as the cargo placed on the target carrier as the cargo to be managed.

For example, taking SKUs placed on candidate carrier 1 as SKU1 and SKU3, SKUs placed on candidate carrier 2 as SKU1 and SKU4, SKUs placed on target carrier as SKU2 and SKU3, candidate containers include container a storing SKU1 on candidate carrier 1 and container C storing SKU1 on candidate carrier 2, SKUs required for the target order are SKU1 and SKU2, and SKU1, SKU2 and SKU3 are the same type of cargo as examples. In determining the carriers to be handled from the candidate carrier 1 and the candidate carrier 2, since the SKU3 placed on the candidate carrier 1 is the same kind as the SKU3 placed on the target carrier, the candidate carrier 1 can be determined as the carrier to be handled, and the container a storing the SKU1 on the candidate carrier 1 can be determined as the target container. In this way, after the candidate carrier 1 is exchanged with the container storing the SKU1 on the target carrier 3, it is possible to ensure that the candidate carrier 1 after the shipment is not disturbed.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, the number of carriers to be managed is not limited, and the number of carriers to be managed is related to parameters such as the type and number of the goods required by the target order, and the type and number of the goods placed on the target carrier. For example, a plurality of target containers on 10 carriers to be sorted may be sorted onto one target carrier.

In some embodiments, the steps 301-303 may be performed before the order is managed, where a plurality of target carriers, a target order corresponding to each target carrier, and a container set required for the target order are determined according to the previously known orders. For example, after the target carrier and the target order corresponding to the target carrier are selected, the container set required by the target order may be added to the container set to be combined to obtain a group of container sets corresponding to the target carrier, and the number of containers included in the group of container sets does not exceed the maximum number of containers that can be accommodated by the target carrier. After the multiple groups of container sets are determined, the to-be-tidied carriers corresponding to each group of container sets can be sequentially conveyed to a tidying workstation for tidying, so that the containers in the group of container sets are all tidied on the corresponding target carriers.

Step 304, controlling the handling device to respectively handle at least one to-be-handled carrier and the target carrier with a plurality of target containers to the tally workstation, and controlling the tally workstation to handle the target containers placed on the to-be-handled carriers to the target carriers.

After the to-be-tidied carrier to be tidied and the target container placed on the to-be-tidied carrier are determined, the to-be-tidied carrier needs to be further transported to a tidying work station, and then the target container placed on the to-be-tidied carrier is tidied on the target carrier at the tidying work station.

For example, the control device may generate a first handling instruction according to the to-be-handled carriers and the target carriers, where the first handling instruction is used to instruct a handling device (such as a handling robot) to handle at least one to-be-handled carrier and the target carrier, where the plurality of target containers are placed, to the handling workstation. And the carrying equipment receives and carries at least one to-be-managed carrier and the target carrier to the management workstation according to the first carrying instruction.

The control device may also generate a tally instruction according to the target order and the target container, where the tally instruction is used to instruct the tally workstation to transfer the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier to the target carrier. And the tally workstation conveys the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier to the target carrier according to the tally instruction, so that most or all of goods required by the target order are placed on the target carrier with the completed tally. The application can realize that goods required by the target orders are placed on as few carriers as possible after the goods are managed, and a plurality of goods required by the target orders can be placed on one target carrier, so that more or even all containers on the target carrier can be hit when the target carrier is selected, and the selecting efficiency is improved.

In some examples, when the target carrier and the to-be-sorted carrier are transported to the sorting workstation for sorting, the target carrier and at least one to-be-sorted carrier may be simultaneously transported to the sorting workstation, the target carrier and the to-be-sorted carrier may be sequentially transported to the sorting workstation, or the target carrier and one to-be-sorted carrier may be simultaneously transported to the sorting workstation, and then the other to-be-sorted carriers may be sequentially transported to the sorting workstation. When the robot sequentially conveys the target carrier and the carrier to be tidied to the tidying work station, the robot can firstly convey the target carrier to the tidying work station and then convey the carrier to be tidied to the tidying work station; the carrier to be tidied can be transported to the tidying work station first, and then the target carrier can be transported to the tidying work station. The carrying sequence of the to-be-managed carrier and the target carrier is not limited in the embodiment of the application. It is to be understood that, whether the target carrier arrives at the cargo handling workstation first or the to-be-handled carrier arrives at the cargo handling workstation first, the robot for transporting the target carrier and the robot for transporting the to-be-handled carrier may be the same robot or different robots, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

When the time for the to-be-sorted carrier to reach the tally workstation is earlier than the time for the target carrier to reach the tally workstation, the target carrier does not reach the tally workstation yet, so that the container taking and placing device of the tally workstation can be controlled to carry the target container (namely, the to-be-sorted container) on the to-be-sorted carrier to the cache position of the tally workstation for caching. And after the target carrier arrives at the tally workstation, carrying the container to be tally placed on the buffer position of the tally workstation onto the target carrier.

When the time for the target carrier to reach the tally workstation is earlier than the time for the to-be-tally carrier to reach the tally workstation, the container taking and placing device of the tally workstation can be controlled to directly convey the to-be-tally container on the to-be-tally carrier to the target carrier because the target carrier reaches the tally workstation when the container taking and placing device of the tally workstation conveys the to-be-tally container on the to-be-tally carrier.

For example, taking the target carrier corresponding to 10 carriers to be sorted (i.e. the containers to be sorted on the 10 carriers need to be sorted on the target carrier), the target carrier is carrier a, the carriers to be sorted are carriers B1 to B10, the time for the carrier B1 to arrive at the sorting workstation is earlier than that of the target carrier a, and the time for the carriers B2 to B10 to arrive at the sorting workstation is later than that of the target carrier a. When the to-be-sorted carrier B1 is moved to the sorting workstation, the target carrier a does not yet reach the sorting workstation, so that the to-be-sorted container on the to-be-sorted carrier B1 may be placed on the buffer position of the sorting workstation first, and after the target carrier a reaches the sorting workstation, the to-be-sorted container placed on the buffer position of the sorting workstation may be moved to the target carrier a. After reaching the cargo handling workstation, the target carrier a can stay at the cargo handling workstation all the time, and the cargo handling carriers B2 to B10 can be sequentially carried to the cargo handling workstation. When the to-be-sorted carrier B2 arrives at the sorting workstation, the sorting workstation can be controlled to directly carry the to-be-sorted container on the to-be-sorted carrier B2 to the target carrier a. And the like, until the to-be-tidied containers on the to-be-tidied carriers B3 to B10 are all tidied on the target carrier A, and then controlling the carrying equipment to carry the target carrier A away from the cargo-tidying workstation.

For another example, taking the target carrier corresponding to 10 carriers to be sorted, the target carrier is carrier a, the carriers to be sorted are carriers B1 to B10, and the time for the carriers to be sorted B1 to B10 to reach the sorting workstation is earlier than that of the target carrier a, when the carriers to be sorted B1 to B10 are moved to the sorting workstation, the target carrier a does not reach the sorting workstation yet. Therefore, the to-be-sorted containers on the to-be-sorted carriers B1 to B10 may be placed on the buffer storage position of the sorting workstation, and after the target carrier a arrives at the sorting workstation, the to-be-sorted containers placed on the buffer storage position of the sorting workstation may be transported to the target carrier a.

For another example, taking the target carrier corresponding to 10 carriers to be sorted, the target carrier is carrier a, the carriers to be sorted are carriers B1 to B10, the time for the carriers to be sorted B1 to B10 to reach the sorting workstation is later than that of the target carrier a, the target carrier a can stay at the sorting workstation all the time after reaching the sorting workstation, and the carriers to be sorted B1 to B10 can be sequentially carried to the sorting workstation. When any one of the carriers B1 to B10 arrives at the cargo handling workstation, the container to be handled on the any one of the carriers B1 to B10 can be directly transferred to the target carrier a.

The order in which the carriers to be sorted and the target carriers arrive at the sorting work station is not limited, and in practical application, the order in which the carriers to be sorted and the target carriers are carried to the sorting work station can be determined according to the number of empty robots in the warehouse system, the number of cache positions of the sorting work station, the number of target containers on the carriers to be sorted, the number of sorting work stations of the sorting work station, and the like.

In some embodiments, when the target container on the to-be-sorted carrier (i.e., the to-be-sorted container) is sorted onto the target carrier, the to-be-sorted container on the to-be-sorted carrier can be sorted onto the same surface of the target carrier, so as to reduce the number of times of turning the target carrier, and further improve the sorting efficiency. In some examples, when the number of to-be-sorted containers required to be sorted on the target carrier is large, the to-be-sorted containers may be sorted on the same surface of the target carrier first, and after one surface is full (i.e. one surface of the target carrier has no empty cargo space), the target carrier is transported to the surface turning position for surface turning; and in the process of carrying out the face of turning on the target carrier, the container to be tidied on the carrier to be tidied which does not finish the tidying can be firstly placed on the buffer position of the tidying work station, and after the face of turning on the target carrier is finished, the container to be tidied placed on the buffer position is carried on the target carrier, so that the tidying flow is not broken, and the tidying efficiency is improved.

When the target container on the to-be-sorted carrier is sorted onto the target carrier, it is required to consider whether there is an empty cargo space (which may also be referred to as an empty storage space) on the target carrier and/or the to-be-sorted carrier, and several sorting modes are described below by way of example in connection with whether there is an empty cargo space on the target carrier and/or the to-be-sorted carrier.

Illustratively, in the case that there is an empty cargo space on the target carrier, controlling the tally workstation to carry the target container placed on the carrier to be tally onto the empty cargo space of the target carrier; under the condition that no idle goods space exists on the target carrier, the tally workstation is controlled to exchange the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier with the non-hit container placed on the target carrier so as to convey the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier to the target carrier.

The non-hit container on the target carrier refers to a container that the target order corresponding to the target carrier does not hit. In order to arrange the target containers on the to-be-sorted carrier on the target carrier, whether the target carrier has an idle storage position can be determined first, and if the target carrier has the idle storage position, the target container on the to-be-sorted carrier can be directly carried to the idle storage position on the target carrier. If there are no free storage bits on the target carrier, then a non-hit container (e.g., a container that is not hit by the target order) on the target carrier needs to be swapped with a target container placed on the to-be-sorted carrier to sort the target container onto the target carrier.

When exchanging the target container placed on the to-be-managed carrier with the non-hit container placed on the target carrier, further considering whether an idle storage position exists on the to-be-managed carrier, and if the idle storage position exists on the to-be-managed carrier, exchanging the containers through the idle storage position on the to-be-managed carrier; if the idle storage bit does not exist on the to-be-managed carrier, container exchange can be realized through the buffer bit of the management workstation.

Illustratively, the controlling the tally workstation exchanges the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier with the non-hit container placed on the target carrier to transfer the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier to the target carrier, including: under the condition that an idle cargo space exists on the to-be-managed cargo carrier, controlling a cargo management workstation to convey the non-hit container placed on the target carrier to the idle cargo space of the to-be-managed cargo carrier, and then conveying the target container placed on the to-be-managed cargo carrier to the original cargo space of the non-hit container on the target carrier; under the condition that no idle goods space exists on the to-be-managed carrier, the management workstation is controlled to convey the non-hit container placed on the target carrier to the cache position of the management workstation, and then the target container placed on the to-be-managed carrier is conveyed to the original goods space of the non-hit container on the target carrier.

Under the condition that the idle storage bit does not exist on the target carrier, in order to arrange the target containers on the to-be-managed carrier on the target carrier, whether the idle storage bit exists on the to-be-managed carrier can be further judged. If the idle storage position exists on the to-be-managed carrier, the non-hit container which is not hit by the target order on the target carrier can be transported to the idle storage position on the to-be-managed carrier, and at the moment, the original cargo position of the non-hit container on the target carrier is in an idle state, so that the target container on the to-be-managed carrier can be transported to the original cargo position of the non-hit container on the target carrier.

Under the condition that no free storage position exists on the target carrier and no free storage position exists on the to-be-managed carrier, in order to manage target containers on the to-be-managed carrier to the target carrier, non-hit containers which are not hit by the target order on the target carrier can be carried to a cache position of a tally workstation, and at the moment, the original positions of the non-hit containers on the target carrier are in an idle state, so that the target containers on the to-be-managed carrier can be carried to the original positions of the non-hit containers on the target carrier. After the target container is carried to the original goods position of the non-hit container on the target carrier, the non-hit container on the cache position of the tally workstation can be carried to the original goods position of the target container on the carrier to be tally.

It will be appreciated that after the tallying of step 304 is completed, each target carrier is placed with the goods required for the target order corresponding to the target carrier. In actual production, there may be some orders where all of the goods required cannot be managed onto one target carrier, but the goods required for the target order may be physically handled onto as few carriers as possible by the above-described management operation. That is, after the above-mentioned cargo handling operation, most or even all of the cargo required for the target order is handled on the target carrier.

Step 305, controlling the handling device to handle the target carrier to the picking workstation according to the target carrier and/or the target order, and controlling the picking workstation to pick the goods required by the target order on the target carrier.

After goods required by the target orders corresponding to the target carriers are tidied in the tidying stage, the tidied target orders or the target carriers can be preferentially sorted in the sorting stage, so that when the target carriers are sorted in the sorting workstation, all containers on the target carriers can be guaranteed to be in one-time hit, the benefit of carrying the target carriers once is high, and the sorting efficiency is improved.

In some embodiments, the control device may generate the second handling instructions and the first picking instructions based on the target carrier and/or the target order; the carrying equipment carries the target carrier to the picking workstation based on the second carrying instruction; the picking workstation picks the goods required by the target order on the target carrier based on the first picking instruction.

Illustratively, in the picking stage, a push type algorithm may be used for picking, a pull type algorithm may be used for picking, and a combination of the push type algorithm and the pull type algorithm may be used for picking.

The push algorithm is to take the order as a main view angle, and collect the managed target order together for order taking and dispatch based on the result of the tally after the tally is completed, so that the target order with completed tally can be ensured to preempt the goods on the target carrier.

In some examples, where a push algorithm is employed for picking, as shown in FIG. 5, step 305 may include the following steps 3051-3052.

Step 3051, performing actual hit on the target order, and determining a target carrier hit by the target order.

Step 3052, controlling the handling device to handle the target carrier to the picking workstation, and controlling the picking workstation to pick the goods placed in the target container on the target carrier.

When the push algorithm is adopted for hit and dispatch, the target order can be taken as a main view angle, and the target order and the target carrier are bound in the pre-hit stage, so that the target order can hit the corresponding target carrier when the target order is actually hit in the picking stage. And when the target carrier is conveyed to a picking workstation for picking, the goods required by the target order can be picked. Because most of goods and even all goods required by the target order are placed on the target carrier, when the picking workstation picks the goods required by the target order, all target containers of the target carrier can be hit, so that the benefit of carrying the target carrier once is large, and the picking efficiency can be improved. Moreover, the push algorithm is adopted for hit, so that the target order with completed tally can be ensured to be preempted for goods on the target carrier with completed tally, and the target order with completed tally is subjected to dispatch preferentially during dispatch, therefore, the expected effect of the tally stage can be realized during the picking stage, the robot consumed during the tally stage and the working time of the working station can bring the maximized benefit to the picking stage, and the operation efficiency of the warehouse system is greatly improved while the picking efficiency is improved.

The pull algorithm is to take the carrier as a main view angle, so that the carrier capable of meeting more orders is preferentially selected at a selecting workstation, and goods required for hitting all orders on the carrier are selected when the selecting workstation selects. However, since the pull algorithm picks all of the orders required to hit the order on the carrier, the picking station picks all of the orders requiring the order on the target carrier when the target carrier is transported to the picking station, which may not be the target order for the target carrier. If picking in this manner would disrupt the results of the picking stage, as the target carriers delivered to the picking station can always be utilized as much as possible, which would result in the use of unexpected orders for the goods on the target carriers (i.e., orders other than the target order to which the target carrier corresponds), so that target orders that would otherwise be expected to be satisfied by target carriers subsequently delivered to the picking station may have been completely picked.

In order to ensure that the pull-type algorithm can pick according to the tally result, the picking efficiency is improved, and only the target order corresponding to the target carrier can be picked when the target carrier is conveyed to the picking workstation. The target orders and the target carriers obtained in the sorting stage are fed back to the subsequent actual hit and dispatch stage, so that after the target carriers are conveyed to the picking workstation, the target orders corresponding to the target carriers are hit and dispatched preferentially, and the effect expected to be achieved in the sorting stage can be ensured.

In some examples, where a pull algorithm is employed for picking, as shown in FIG. 6, step 305 may include the following steps 3053-3054.

Step 3053, performing actual hit according to the multiple pending orders, determining a second hit carrier with the largest number of hit orders; the second hit carrier includes the target carrier.

Step 3054, controlling the handling equipment to handle the target carrier to the picking workstation, and controlling the picking workstation to pick the goods required by the target order on the target carrier according to the target order.

When the pull algorithm is adopted for hit and dispatch, the target carrier can be taken as a main view angle, and the target carrier is a carrier for finishing the tally, so that when a plurality of pending orders are used for actual hit, the target carrier meeting more orders is preferentially carried to a picking workstation. When the order is ordered, namely, the order is selected by the order selecting workstation, and the order is selected by the order selecting workstation; therefore, when the target carrier is taken as a main view angle, the target order with the completed tally can occupy the goods on the target carrier preferentially, and the picking workstation can not pick the goods required by other orders except the target order on the target carrier, so that the result of the tally stage can not be disturbed in the picking stage. Moreover, when the goods required by the target order are picked by the picking workstation in the mode, all target containers of the target carrier can be hit, so that the benefit of carrying the target carrier once is large, and the picking efficiency can be improved.

According to the method, the output result (such as the target carrier and the target order) of the tallying stage can be fed back to the subsequent actual assignment and the order dispatching stage, so that the target order for completing the tallying can preempt the corresponding goods on the target carrier, and the target order for completing the tallying is dispatched preferentially during dispatching, so that the subsequent picking can be ensured without disturbing the result of the tallying, the expected effect of the tallying stage can be realized in the picking stage, and the picking efficiency is improved.

In order to further improve the operation efficiency of the warehousing system, the order after the tally is picked by adopting a push algorithm, and the order without the tally is picked by adopting a pull algorithm. Fig. 7 is a flowchart of another order processing method according to an embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 7, after the step 3052, steps 306-307 may be further included.

Step 306, performing actual hit on the non-tally orders, and determining the first hit carrier with the largest number of hit non-tally orders.

The unreasonable order may include only the orders of the plurality of pending orders that have not been unreasonable due to limited time or resources, or may include only the orders that have been newly received over time, or may include both the orders of the plurality of pending orders that have not been unreasonable and the orders that have been newly received.

For example, it is possible to complete the tally for all of the known plurality of pending orders during the tally stage, or only a portion of the orders may complete the tally. When the tallying stage completes tallying all of the known plurality of pending orders, the non-tallying order in step 306 may be a newly received order (e.g., an order received after the plurality of pending orders). When the tally stage completes tally for only a portion of the known plurality of pending orders due to time or resource constraints, the non-tally orders in step 306 include the orders of the plurality of pending orders that have not been tally and the newly received orders.

The pull algorithm is adopted to actually hit the unreasonable orders, so that the first hit carriers meeting the most unreasonable orders can be preferentially selected at the selecting workstation, and therefore the first hit carriers with the most hit unreasonable orders can be determined.

Step 307, controlling the handling device to handle the first hit carrier to the picking workstation, and controlling the picking workstation to pick the goods required by the unreasonable order on the first hit carrier according to the unreasonable order.

For example, the control device may generate the third transfer instruction and the second picking instruction based on the first hit carrier after determining the first hit carrier having the largest number of hit outstanding orders; the handling equipment handles the first hit carrier to the picking work station based on the third handling instruction, and the picking work station picks goods required by the unreasonable order on the first hit carrier according to the unreasonable order based on the second picking instruction.

It can be understood that the application adopts push algorithm to perform order-sorting and dispatch on the order after finishing the tally in the picking stage, so as to ensure that the target order preemptively occupies the goods on the target carrier after finishing the tally, thereby realizing the expected effect in the tally stage in the picking stage; when the unreasonable orders are hit and dispatched by adopting a pull algorithm, the first hit carrier meeting more orders can be preferentially picked, and when the first hit carrier is picked, all the orders needing goods on the first hit carrier are picked, so that the first hit carrier can pick the goods with more orders at a picking workstation, the benefit of carrying the first hit carrier for the first time is larger, and the picking efficiency can be improved.

It should be noted that, the pull algorithm of step 307 is slightly different from that of step 3054, when the step 307 is picking, all the non-ordered orders hitting the goods on the first hit carrier may be picked, and when the step 3054 is picking, only the goods required by the target order corresponding to the target carrier may be picked, but not the goods required by the orders other than the target order. That is, even if other orders except the target order hit the goods on the target carrier, the other orders are not picked in step 3054, but only the goods required by the target order corresponding to the target carrier are picked, so that the result of the picking stage is not disturbed, and the robot and the working hours of the workstation consumed in the picking stage are ensured to bring the maximum benefit to the picking stage. In step 307, the unmarked orders are picked, so that in order to improve the picking efficiency, the first hit carrier can be utilized to the maximum extent, so that more orders can be satisfied by carrying the first hit carrier once, thereby improving the picking efficiency.

According to the order processing method provided by the embodiment of the application, the known multiple orders to be processed are pre-hit, the target carrier and the target orders corresponding to the target carrier are determined from the pre-hit carriers, and the target containers on the carriers to be processed are processed on the target carrier at the processing work station, so that the target containers hit by the target orders are placed on the target carrier. In the picking stage, the target carrier and the target order obtained by the tallying can be used for hitting and dispatching the order; the application can feed the target carrier and the target order obtained in the tallying stage back to the subsequent actual assignment and dispatch stage, so that the target order for completing tallying can preempt the corresponding goods on the target carrier; and the target order for finishing the tally is dispatched preferentially when dispatching, so that the result of the tally cannot be disturbed in subsequent picking can be ensured, the expected effect in the tally stage can be realized in the picking stage, the robot consumed in the tally stage and the working time of the workstation can bring the maximized benefit to the picking stage, and the operation efficiency of the warehouse system is greatly improved while the picking efficiency is improved. In addition, most of goods and even all of goods required by the target order are placed on the target carrier, so that when the picking workstation picks the goods required by the target order, all target containers of the target carrier can be hit, the benefit of carrying the target carrier once is high, and the picking efficiency can be further improved.

Fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of an order processing device according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 8, the order processing apparatus 800 includes an acquisition module 801, a pre-hit module 802, a determination module 803, and a control module 804. Wherein:

An acquisition module 801 is configured to acquire a plurality of pending orders.

A pre-hit module 802 configured to pre-hit a plurality of pending orders, determine a plurality of pre-hit containers and a plurality of pre-hit carriers corresponding to the plurality of pending orders; the pre-hit carrier is a carrier for placing the pre-hit container.

A determining module 803 configured to determine at least one target carrier among the plurality of pre-hit carriers and determine a target order corresponding to each target carrier among the plurality of pending orders; the target carrier is used for placing goods required by the target order; and determining a plurality of target containers for placing goods required for the target order based on the target order.

The control module 804 is configured to control the handling device to respectively handle at least one to-be-handled carrier and the target carrier, where the plurality of target containers are placed, to the handling workstation, and control the handling workstation to handle the target container placed on the to-be-handled carrier to the target carrier.

The control module 804 is further configured to control the handling device to handle the target carrier to the picking workstation according to the target carrier and/or the target order, and control the picking workstation to pick the goods required by the target order on the target carrier.

In some embodiments, the determining module 803 is configured to determine a hit parameter corresponding to each of the predicted hit carriers; the hit parameters include at least one of a number of complete hit orders, hit rate, and a number of hit containers; and determining at least one target carrier in the plurality of pre-hit carriers according to the hit parameters corresponding to each pre-hit carrier.

Illustratively, a determining module 803 configured to determine a pre-hit vehicle for which the hit parameter exceeds the threshold parameter as the target vehicle; or sorting the hit parameters from large to small, and determining the pre-hit carriers which are sorted to be the front as target carriers according to the sorting result.

In some embodiments, the determining module 803 is configured to determine, as the target order, a pending order that hits the placed container on the target carrier, from among the plurality of pending orders; and if the number of the target containers required by the to-be-processed orders which hit the placed containers on the target carrier is smaller than the threshold number, determining the to-be-processed orders which miss the placed containers on the target carrier in the to-be-processed orders as target orders.

In some embodiments, a determining module 803 configured to determine a plurality of candidate containers and a plurality of candidate vehicles for target order hits based on the target order; the candidate carrier is a carrier for placing the candidate container; and determining a to-be-sorted carrier among the plurality of candidate carriers based on the cargo information of the cargo placed on each candidate carrier and the cargo information of the cargo placed on the target carrier, and determining the candidate container on the to-be-sorted carrier as the target container.

In some embodiments, the determining module 803 is configured to determine, as the to-be-tally carrier, a candidate carrier having a cargo type similar to or the same as a cargo type of the cargo placed on the target carrier, from among the plurality of candidate carriers.

In some embodiments, the control module 804 is configured to control the tally workstation to carry the target container placed on the target carrier onto the empty cargo space of the target carrier if the empty cargo space exists on the target carrier; under the condition that no idle goods space exists on the target carrier, the tally workstation is controlled to exchange the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier with the non-hit container placed on the target carrier so as to convey the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier to the target carrier.

In some embodiments, the control module 804 is configured to control the tally workstation to transfer the non-hit container placed on the target carrier to the empty cargo space of the to-be-tally carrier, and then to transfer the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier to the original cargo space of the non-hit container on the target carrier, if the empty cargo space exists on the to-be-tally carrier; under the condition that no idle goods space exists on the to-be-managed carrier, the management workstation is controlled to convey the non-hit container placed on the target carrier to the cache position of the management workstation, and then the target container placed on the to-be-managed carrier is conveyed to the original goods space of the non-hit container on the target carrier.

In some embodiments, the control module 804 is configured to actually hit the target order, determine the target vehicle and the target container that the target order hits; the control handling equipment is used for handling the target carrier to the picking work station and controlling the picking work station to pick the goods placed in the target container on the target carrier.

In some embodiments, the control module 804 is further configured to make actual hits to the non-ordered, determine the first hit carrier that hits the most number of non-ordered; the control handling equipment is used for handling the first hit carrier to the picking work station, and the picking work station is controlled to pick goods required by the unreasonable order on the first hit carrier according to the unreasonable order.

In some embodiments, the control module 804 is configured to make actual hits according to the plurality of pending orders, and determine the second hit carrier with the largest number of hit orders; the second hit carrier includes a target carrier; the control handling equipment is used for handling the target carrier to the picking work station, and the picking work station is controlled to pick goods required by the target order on the target carrier according to the target order.

Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application. In some embodiments, the electronic device includes one or more processors and memory. The memory is configured to: one or more programs are stored. Wherein the one or more processors implement the order processing method of the above embodiments when the one or more programs are executed by the one or more processors.

As shown in fig. 9, the electronic device 900 includes: a processor 901 and a memory 902. Illustratively, the electronic device 900 may further include: a communication interface (Communications Interface) 903, and a communication bus 904.

Wherein the processor 901, the memory 902 and the communication interface 903 communicate with each other via a communication bus 904. The communication interface 903 is used to communicate with network elements of other devices, such as clients or other servers.

In some embodiments, the processor 901 is configured to execute the program 905, and may specifically perform the relevant steps in the above-described order processing method embodiment. In particular, program 905 may comprise program code comprising computer executable instructions.

The processor 901 may be, for example, a central processing unit CPU, or an Application SPECIFIC INTEGRATED Circuit (ASIC), or one or more integrated circuits configured to implement embodiments of the present application. The one or more processors that electronic device 900 may include may be the same type of processor, such as one or more CPUs; but may also be different types of processors such as one or more CPUs and one or more ASICs.

In some embodiments, memory 902 is used to store programs 905. The Memory 902 may include a high-speed RAM Memory or may further include a Non-Volatile Memory (NVM), such as at least one magnetic disk Memory.

The program 905 may specifically be invoked by the processor 901 to cause the electronic device 900 to perform the operations of the order processing method.

Embodiments of the present application provide a computer readable storage medium storing at least one executable instruction that, when executed on an electronic device 900, causes the electronic device 900 to perform the order processing method in the foregoing embodiments.

The executable instructions may be particularly useful for causing the electronic device 900 to perform the operations of the order processing method described above.

For example, the computer readable storage medium may be Read-Only Memory (ROM), random-access Memory (Random Access Memory, RAM), compact disc Read-Only Memory (CD-ROM), magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical data storage device, and the like.

The beneficial effects achieved by the order processing device, the electronic device and the computer readable storage medium provided by the embodiment of the application can refer to the beneficial effects provided by the corresponding order processing method, and are not repeated here.

It is noted that in the present application, relational terms such as first and second, and the like are used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Moreover, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising one does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises an element.

In this specification, each embodiment is described in a related manner, and identical and similar parts of each embodiment are all referred to each other, and each embodiment mainly describes differences from other embodiments. In particular, for the device embodiments, since they are substantially similar to the method embodiments, the description is relatively simple, and reference is made to the description of the method embodiments in part.

Logic and/or steps represented in the flowcharts or otherwise described herein, e.g., a ordered listing of executable instructions for implementing logical functions, can be embodied in any computer-readable medium for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device, such as a computer-based system, processor-containing system, or other system that can fetch the instructions from the instruction execution system, apparatus, or device and execute the instructions.

For the purposes of this description, a "computer-readable medium" can be any means that can contain, store, communicate, propagate, or transport the program for use by or in connection with the instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.

More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the computer-readable medium would include the following: an electrical connection (electronic device) having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette (magnetic device), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), an optical fiber device, and a portable compact disc read-only memory (CDROM).

Additionally, the computer-readable medium may even be paper or other suitable medium upon which the program is printed, as the program may be electronically captured, via, for instance, optical scanning of the paper or other medium, then compiled, interpreted or otherwise processed in a suitable manner, if necessary, and then stored in a computer memory. It is to be understood that portions of the present application may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or a combination thereof.

In the above-described embodiments, the various steps or methods may be implemented in software or firmware stored in a memory and executed by a suitable instruction execution system. For example, if implemented in hardware, as in another embodiment, may be implemented using any one or combination of the following techniques, as is well known in the art: discrete logic circuits having logic gates for implementing logic functions on data signals, application specific integrated circuits having suitable combinational logic gates, programmable Gate Arrays (PGAs), field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), and the like.

The embodiments of the present application described above do not limit the scope of the present application.

Claims (26)

1. An order processing method, applied to a control device, comprising:

Acquiring a plurality of to-be-processed orders, and performing pre-hit according to the plurality of to-be-processed orders, and determining a plurality of pre-hit containers and a plurality of pre-hit carriers corresponding to the plurality of to-be-processed orders; wherein the pre-hit carrier is a carrier for placing the pre-hit container;

determining at least one target carrier in the plurality of pre-hit carriers, and determining a target order corresponding to each target carrier in the plurality of pending orders; the target carrier is used for placing goods required by the target order;

Determining a plurality of target containers for placing goods required by the target order based on the target order;

Controlling a carrying device to carry at least one to-be-sorted carrier and the target carrier placed with the plurality of target containers to a sorting workstation respectively, and controlling the sorting workstation to carry the target containers placed on the to-be-sorted carrier to the target carriers;

and according to the target carrier and/or the target order, controlling a carrying device to carry the target carrier to a picking workstation, and controlling the picking workstation to pick the goods required by the target order on the target carrier.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said determining at least one target carrier among the plurality of pre-hit carriers comprises:

Determining hit parameters corresponding to the hit carriers; the hit parameters include at least one of a number of complete hit orders, a hit rate, and a number of hit containers;

And determining the at least one target carrier in the plurality of pre-hit carriers according to the hit parameters corresponding to the pre-hit carriers.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the at least one target vehicle among the plurality of pre-hit vehicles according to the hit parameter corresponding to each of the pre-hit vehicles comprises:

determining a pre-hit vehicle for which the hit parameter exceeds a threshold parameter as the target vehicle; or alternatively

And sorting the hit parameters from large to small, and determining the pre-hit carriers which are sorted to be the front as target carriers according to the sorting result.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein determining a target order for each of the target vehicles in the plurality of pending orders comprises:

Determining a pending order hitting a placed container on the target carrier as the target order among the plurality of pending orders;

And if the number of the target containers required for hitting the to-be-processed order with the placed containers on the target carrier is smaller than the threshold number, determining the to-be-processed order without hitting the placed containers on the target carrier in the to-be-processed order as the target order.

5. The method of any of claims 1-4, wherein the determining a plurality of target containers for placing goods required for the target order based on the target order comprises:

determining a plurality of candidate containers and a plurality of candidate vehicles hit by the target order based on the target order; the candidate carrier is a carrier for placing the candidate container;

And determining the to-be-sorted carriers from the plurality of candidate carriers based on the cargo information of the cargoes placed on the candidate carriers and the cargo information of the cargoes placed on the target carrier, and determining the candidate container on the to-be-sorted carriers as the target container.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the cargo information includes a cargo type, and wherein determining the cargo to be tidied among the plurality of candidate vehicles based on the cargo information of the cargo placed on each of the candidate vehicles and the cargo information of the cargo placed on the target vehicle comprises:

And determining the candidate carrier with the similar or same cargo type as the cargo placed on the target carrier as the cargo to be managed.

7. The method of any one of claims 1-4, wherein the controlling the tally station to handle the target container placed on the carrier to be tally to the target carrier comprises:

Under the condition that an idle cargo space exists on the target carrier, controlling the tally workstation to convey the target container placed on the carrier to be tally to the idle cargo space of the target carrier;

And under the condition that no idle goods space exists on the target carrier, controlling the tally workstation to exchange the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier with the non-hit container placed on the target carrier so as to convey the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier to the target carrier.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the controlling the tally workstation to exchange a target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier with a non-hit container placed on the target carrier to transfer the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier to the target carrier comprises:

Under the condition that an idle cargo space exists on the to-be-sorted carrier, controlling the sorting workstation to convey a non-hit container placed on a target carrier to the idle cargo space of the to-be-sorted carrier, and then conveying the target container placed on the to-be-sorted carrier to an original cargo space of the non-hit container on the target carrier;

And under the condition that no idle goods space exists on the to-be-managed carrier, controlling the goods-managing workstation to convey the non-hit container placed on the target carrier to the cache position of the goods-managing workstation, and then conveying the target container placed on the to-be-managed carrier to the original goods space of the non-hit container on the target carrier.

9. The method of any one of claims 1-4, wherein controlling a handling device to handle the target carrier to a pick-up workstation and controlling the pick-up workstation to pick the goods on the target carrier required for the target order in accordance with the target carrier and/or the target order comprises:

Performing actual hit on the target order, and determining the target carrier and the target container hit by the target order;

and controlling the conveying equipment to convey the target carrier to the picking work station, and controlling the picking work station to pick the goods placed in the target container on the target carrier.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the method further comprises:

Carrying out actual hit on the unreasonable order, and determining a first hit carrier with the largest number of hit unreasonable orders;

And controlling the carrying equipment to carry the first hit carrier to the picking work station, and controlling the picking work station to pick the goods required by the unreasonable order on the first hit carrier according to the unreasonable order.

11. The method of any one of claims 1-4, wherein controlling a handling device to handle the target carrier to a pick-up workstation and controlling the pick-up workstation to pick the goods on the target carrier required for the target order in accordance with the target carrier and/or the target order comprises:

according to the multiple to-be-processed orders, actual hit is carried out, and a second hit carrier with the largest hit order number is determined; the second hit carrier includes the target carrier;

And controlling the carrying equipment to carry the target carrier to the picking work station, and controlling the picking work station to pick the goods required by the target order on the target carrier according to the target order.

12. A warehousing system, comprising:

A plurality of carriers including at least one target carrier;

A control device configured to: acquiring a plurality of to-be-processed orders, and performing pre-hit according to the plurality of to-be-processed orders, and determining a plurality of pre-hit containers and a plurality of pre-hit carriers corresponding to the plurality of to-be-processed orders in the plurality of carriers; determining the at least one target carrier in the plurality of pre-hit carriers, and determining a target order corresponding to each target carrier in the plurality of pending orders; determining a plurality of target containers for placing goods required by the target order based on the target order; generating a first carrying instruction and a tally instruction based on the target order and the plurality of target containers, and generating a second carrying instruction and a first picking instruction based on the target carrier and/or the target order; wherein the target carrier is used for placing goods required by the target order;

A handling device configured to handle at least one to-be-handled carrier or the target carrier, on which the plurality of target containers are placed, to a handling workstation based on the first handling instruction; and carrying the target carrier to a picking workstation based on the second carrying instruction;

the tally workstation is configured to convey the target container placed on the to-be-tally carrier to the target carrier based on the tally instruction;

the picking workstation is configured to pick the goods required by the target order on the target carrier based on the first picking instruction.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the control device is configured to:

Determining hit parameters corresponding to the hit carriers; the hit parameters include at least one of a number of complete hit orders, a hit rate, and a number of hit containers;

And determining the at least one target carrier in the plurality of pre-hit carriers according to the hit parameters corresponding to the pre-hit carriers.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the control device is configured to:

determining a pre-hit vehicle for which the hit parameter exceeds a threshold parameter as the target vehicle; or alternatively

And sorting the hit parameters from large to small, and determining the pre-hit carriers which are sorted to be the front as target carriers according to the sorting result.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the control device is configured to:

Determining a pending order hitting a placed container on the target carrier as the target order among the plurality of pending orders;

And if the number of the target containers required for hitting the to-be-processed order with the placed containers on the target carrier is smaller than the threshold number, determining the to-be-processed order without hitting the placed containers on the target carrier in the to-be-processed order as the target order.

16. The system according to any one of claims 12-15, wherein the control device is configured to:

determining a plurality of candidate containers and a plurality of candidate vehicles hit by the target order based on the target order; the candidate carrier is a carrier for placing the candidate container;

And determining the to-be-sorted carriers from the plurality of candidate carriers based on the cargo information of the cargoes placed on the candidate carriers and the cargo information of the cargoes placed on the target carrier, and determining the candidate container on the to-be-sorted carriers as the target container.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the cargo information includes a cargo type, and wherein the control device is configured to determine, as the candidate vehicle, a candidate vehicle having a cargo type that is similar to or the same as a cargo type of the cargo placed on the target vehicle.

18. The system of any of claims 12-15, wherein the tally workstation is configured to:

under the condition that an idle cargo space exists on the target carrier, carrying the target container placed on the to-be-managed carrier to the idle cargo space of the target carrier;

And under the condition that no idle goods space exists on the target carrier, exchanging the target container placed on the to-be-managed carrier with the non-hit container placed on the target carrier so as to convey the target container placed on the to-be-managed carrier to the target carrier.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the tally workstation is configured to:

under the condition that an idle cargo space exists on the to-be-managed cargo carrier, carrying a non-hit container placed on a target carrier to the idle cargo space of the to-be-managed cargo carrier, and carrying the target container placed on the to-be-managed cargo carrier to the original cargo space of the non-hit container on the target carrier;

And under the condition that no idle goods space exists on the to-be-managed carrier, carrying the non-hit container placed on the target carrier to a cache position of the management workstation, and carrying the target container placed on the to-be-managed carrier to an original goods space of the non-hit container on the target carrier.

20. The system according to any one of claims 12-15, wherein the control device is configured to:

Performing actual hit on the target order, and determining the target carrier and the target container hit by the target order;

And generating the second conveying instruction and the first picking instruction based on the target carrier and the target container so as to control the conveying equipment to convey the target carrier to the picking workstation and control the picking workstation to pick the goods placed in the target container on the target carrier.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the control device is further configured to:

Carrying out actual hit on the unreasonable order, and determining a first hit carrier with the largest number of hit unreasonable orders;

And generating a third carrying instruction and a second picking instruction based on the first hit carrier so as to control the carrying equipment to carry the first hit carrier to the picking work station and control the picking work station to pick the goods required by the unreasonable order on the first hit carrier according to the unreasonable order.

22. The system according to any one of claims 12-15, wherein the control device is configured to:

according to the multiple to-be-processed orders, actual hit is carried out, and a second hit carrier with the largest hit order number is determined; the second hit carrier includes the target carrier;

And generating a second carrying instruction and a first picking instruction based on the target carrier so as to control carrying equipment to carry the target carrier to the picking work station and control the picking work station to pick goods required by the target order on the target carrier according to the target order.

23. An order processing apparatus, comprising:

the acquisition module is configured to acquire a plurality of pending orders;

the pre-hit module is configured to pre-hit according to the plurality of pending orders, and a plurality of pre-hit containers and a plurality of pre-hit carriers corresponding to the plurality of pending orders are determined; wherein the pre-hit carrier is a carrier for placing the pre-hit container;

a determining module configured to determine at least one target carrier among the plurality of pre-hit carriers, and determine a target order corresponding to each of the target carriers among the plurality of pending orders; determining a plurality of target containers for placing goods required by the target order based on the target order; the target carrier is used for placing goods required by the target order;

the control module is configured to control the carrying equipment to carry at least one to-be-sorted carrier and the target carrier which are placed with the plurality of target containers to a sorting work station respectively, and control the sorting work station to carry the target containers placed on the to-be-sorted carrier to the target carriers;

The control module is further configured to control the conveying equipment to convey the target carrier to a picking work station according to the target carrier and/or the target order, and control the picking work station to pick goods required by the target order on the target carrier.

24. An electronic device, comprising:

one or more processors; and

A memory configured to: storing one or more programs;

Wherein the one or more processors implement the order processing method of any of claims 1-11 when the one or more programs are executed by the one or more processors.

25. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored which, when being executed by a processor, implements the order processing method according to any of claims 1-11.

26. A computer program product comprising a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the order processing method according to any of claims 1-11.