Detailed Description
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which various details of embodiments of the invention are included to assist understanding, and which are to be considered as merely exemplary. Accordingly, those of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that various changes and modifications of the embodiments described herein can be made without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention. Also, descriptions of well-known functions and constructions are omitted in the following description for clarity and conciseness.
Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of the main steps of a method for racking articles on and off a concentric polygon based warehouse according to an embodiment of the present invention. As a reference embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2, the main steps of the method for loading and unloading articles based on a concentric polygon warehouse according to an embodiment of the present invention may include:
step S201: after receiving an article racking instruction, determining a racking storage position of an article to be racked according to the storage position layout and the historical task list of the concentric polygon warehouse to complete racking;
step S202: after receiving an article shelving instruction, acquiring attribute information of at least one article to be shelved and storage position information of the at least one article to be shelved in the concentric polygon warehouse;
step S203: and based on the shelving rules of the concentric polygon warehouse, dividing at least one article to be shelved into at least one shelving task group according to the attribute information and the storage position information, and shelving the article according to the at least one shelving task group.
As can be seen from the above steps S201, S202 and S203, the method for loading and unloading articles based on a concentric polygon warehouse according to the embodiment of the present invention mainly includes two parts, namely, an article loading part and an article unloading part. Step S201 introduces a method for shelving an article, which is specifically to first obtain a storage area layout of a concentric polygon warehouse when the article is shelved, where the storage area layout may include information of a position of each storage area of the concentric polygon warehouse and an empty storage location in each storage area, and also obtain a historical task list, and may obtain information of the article to be shelved from the historical task list, so that the shelving storage area layout and the historical task list of the concentric polygon warehouse may be combined to match a shelving storage location for the article to be shelved, and then the article to be shelved may be placed on the matched shelving storage location to complete shelving of the article, thereby implementing effective recommendation of the shelving storage location, and implementing dynamic adjustment of article mobility. Step S202 and step S203 provide a method for shelving an article, which is to firstly obtain attribute information of all articles to be shelved when the article is shelved, and the attribute information of the article in the embodiment of the present invention may include information such as the type of the article, the date of production of the article, and the expiration date of the article. In addition to the attribute information of the article to be shelved, the storage position information of the article to be shelved in the concentric polygon warehouse, that is, the information of which specific storage position the article to be shelved exists in the concentric polygon warehouse is obtained. Then, all the articles to be shelved are grouped according to the shelving rules of the concentric polygon warehouse and by combining the acquired attribute information and the storage position information, so that a task group for shelving is obtained. And finally, the goods are placed according to the obtained placing task group, so that the goods picking time in the goods placing process can be reduced, the goods picking efficiency is improved, and the production efficiency of the warehouse is further improved.
As can be seen from the above description, the method for loading and unloading articles provided by the embodiment of the present invention is based on a concentric polygon warehouse, and therefore one of the innovative points of the embodiment of the present invention is the design of the concentric polygon warehouse. As still another referential embodiment of the present invention, the concentric polygon repository may include: at least one concentric polygonal storage area, a warehouse access and a rechecking table; aiming at a concentric polygon storage area, the concentric polygon storage area is provided with at least one inlet and outlet, and the inlet and outlet of the concentric polygon storage area are arranged opposite to the inlet and outlet of the adjacent concentric polygon storage area corresponding to the concentric polygon storage area; the warehouse access opening is arranged between at least one concentric polygon storage area and the rechecking table.
In the current storage area layout of the warehouse shown in fig. 1, when goods are off-shelved, containers and picking trucks need to be picked from the entrance, after picking, the containers need to be pushed to the rechecking station, and then the picking trucks and containers are occasionally arranged at the entrance. Under the condition, the working procedures (sorting, collecting and picking trucks and containers) are increased, and more space is occupied to a certain extent. In order to solve the problems, the concentric polygon warehouse provided by the embodiment of the invention is provided with the entrance and exit integrated with each other, namely, the warehouse exit and the warehouse entrance are arranged at the same position, and the entrance and exit are arranged between the rechecking table and the concentric polygon storage area, so that the trucks and containers can be conveniently picked, the space utilization rate is effectively improved, and the picking time and the invalid path are reduced. In addition, the concentric polygon storage of embodiments of the present invention has at least one storage bay doorway per concentric polygon storage area and a passageway between two adjacent concentric polygon storage areas, which has the advantage of allowing rapid access from one storage area to its adjacent storage area. In the method for shelving the articles, the layout structure of the storage areas is considered when the task group is generated, so that the requirement that the articles in one task group are all located in the same storage area is met, or the requirement that the articles in one task group are located in two adjacent storage areas is met, the path for shelving the articles can be reduced, the efficiency for shelving the articles is improved, and the production efficiency of a warehouse is further improved.
Where two adjacent concentric polygonal reservoirs are mentioned above having a channel between them, in embodiments of the present invention the adjacent concentric polygonal reservoirs corresponding to the concentric polygonal reservoirs may comprise: a concentric polygon reservoir having a shortest distance to the concentric polygon reservoir within a preset distance. For example, assuming that there are 3 concentric polygonal reservoirs S1, S2, and S3, if the shortest distance between S1 and S2 is greater than the shortest distance between S1 and S3, there is a connecting passage between S1 and S3, that is, one reservoir entrance of S1 is disposed opposite to one reservoir entrance of S3.
In addition, in order to further shorten the invalid path, the concentric polygon storage according to the embodiment of the present invention may further include: a central reservoir and at least one marginal reservoir, and the marginal reservoir and the reservoir access opening are circumferentially disposed about the central reservoir. That is, for a concentric polygon reservoir having a central reservoir and a peripheral reservoir and a reservoir access opening disposed around the central reservoir, the embodiment of the present invention in which the reservoir is disposed as a concentric polygon can improve space utilization and shorten the length of the dead path.
It should also be noted that the purpose of the concentric polygon warehouse provided by the embodiment of the present invention is to facilitate the loading and unloading of articles. Thus, in addition to the opposed placement of the bin access openings of adjacent concentric polygonal bins, the concentric polygonal warehouse also has at least one particular concentric polygonal bin therein. The concentric polygonal storage area having at least one specific storage area entrance and exit, which is disposed opposite to the warehouse entrance and exit, is referred to as a specific polygonal storage area.
For ease of understanding, a specific concentric polygon store example is provided below for illustration. Fig. 3 to 5 are schematic views of the storage layout of a concentric polygon warehouse according to an embodiment of the present invention. The concentric polygon warehouse shown in fig. 3 has A, B, C, D and E five concentric polygon storages, and a warehouse entrance and exit integrated with the check table are provided between the concentric polygon storages and the check table. Wherein, A and B are storage areas close to the rechecking table, so A and B are special concentric polygon storage areas, and both have two storage area inlets and outlets; c is a reservoir between A, B, D and E, and channels are required to be arranged between the reservoir and the reservoirs A, B, D and E, so that the C is provided with four inlets and outlets; d and E are reservoirs farthest from the review station, and each reservoir has only one access opening. The doorway a1 of the A is arranged opposite to the warehouse doorway, and the doorway a2 is arranged opposite to the doorway C1 of the C; the doorway B1 of the B is arranged opposite to the warehouse doorway, and the doorway B2 is arranged opposite to the doorway C2 of the C; the D inlet and outlet D1 is opposite to the C inlet and outlet C3; the doorway E1 of the E is provided opposite to the doorway C4 of the C.
In order to more clearly show the storage area layout of the concentric polygon warehouse according to the embodiment of the present invention, a layout diagram of the concentric polygon warehouse having 3 storage areas shown in fig. 4 and a layout diagram of the concentric polygon warehouse having 8 storage areas shown in fig. 5 are provided. In FIG. 4, F and G are reservoirs near the review station, i.e., a particular concentric polygon reservoir, each having two entrances and exits; h is a reservoir remote from the review station and there is a passageway between H and A, B reservoirs. The doorway F1 of the F is arranged opposite to the warehouse doorway, and the doorway F2 is arranged opposite to the doorway H1 of the H; the doorway G1 of the G is provided to face the warehouse doorway, and the doorway G2 is provided to face the doorway H2 of the H.
As can be seen from fig. 5, the storage area J has two entrances and exits disposed opposite to the warehouse entrance and exit, and also has entrances and exits disposed opposite to the storage areas L and M; reservoir L and reservoir M are each surrounded by four surrounding reservoirs, and therefore they each have four access openings; the reservoirs N and P are located in the reservoir which is farthest away from the review station, and the reservoirs N and P only have a passage with an adjacent reservoir, so that each reservoir N and P only has one access; each of the storage areas I and K has an entrance and an exit disposed opposite to the entrance and the exit of the warehouse, and each of them has an entrance and an exit disposed opposite to the entrance of the adjacent storage area, so that they both have two entrances and exits; reservoir O is a reservoir that is relatively far from the review station, but which has access to reservoir L and reservoir M, and therefore has two access ports.
It should be noted that in the schematic storage area layouts of the concentric polygon warehouse shown in fig. 3 to 5, the storage area doors disposed opposite to the warehouse doors are all inclined, and these doors (a 1 and b1 in fig. 3, f1 and g1 in fig. 4, i1, j1, j2, and k1 in fig. 5) may be disposed directly opposite to the warehouse doors, which is not limited by the present invention. Of course, the layout design of the concentric polygon warehouse with five, three or eight storage areas is described above, and the number and specific layout of the storage areas can be designed according to practical situations without limitation on the principle that the entrances and exits of two adjacent storage areas are oppositely arranged. As can also be seen in fig. 3 to 5, each reservoir comprises a central reservoir and a peripheral reservoir arranged around this central reservoir.
The method for loading and unloading articles provided by the embodiment of the invention is designed based on a concentric polygon warehouse. Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a main flow of a method for racking articles based on a concentric polygon warehouse according to an embodiment of the present invention. As can be seen from fig. 6, the main flow of the method for shelving items based on a concentric polygon warehouse according to the embodiment of the present invention may include steps S601 to S604.
In step S601, an empty storage bit set of the concentric polygon warehouse is obtained according to the storage bit layout of the concentric polygon warehouse. The bin layout of a concentric polygon store in embodiments of the present invention may include the location of each bin and the storage information for the bins in the respective bins. After the bin layout for the warehouse is obtained, the empty bin sets in the concentric polygon warehouse may be determined. It should be noted that the empty set of storage bits herein includes a set in which the storage bits are empty, and the storage bits can be used normally.
Step S602 is to obtain the frequency information and collocation information of the articles to be shelved according to the historical task list. The historical task list can be a list of articles needing to be shelved received by the warehouse within a period of time, the occurrence frequency of the articles to be shelved can be obtained according to the list, if the occurrence frequency is more, the articles to be shelved need to be frequently shelved, and therefore the articles to be shelved need to be placed in a storage area which is close to the rechecking table as far as possible, and the purpose of reducing the path of shelving can be achieved. The collocation information of the articles refers to the articles which are often collocated with the articles to be placed on the shelf from the task list, for example, the writing brush and the ink are the articles which are often collocated to be placed on the shelf, so that the two articles can be placed in the same storage area as far as possible, and the purpose of reducing the path of placing the articles on the shelf can be achieved.
Step S603 is to calculate a storage bit value of each empty storage bit, specifically: and aiming at one empty storage position in the empty storage position set, acquiring the position information of the empty storage position, and calculating the storage position value of the empty storage position according to the position information of the empty storage position, the frequency information of the articles to be placed on the shelf and the collocation information. That is to say, the position information of the empty storage position, the frequency information of the articles to be placed on the shelf and the collocation information are provided with a weight value, and then the storage position value of the empty storage position is calculated according to the weight value. In the method for shelving the articles, the frequency information and the collocation information of the articles are considered, so that the dynamic adjustment of article flowing can be realized.
Finally, in step S604, the empty storage position with the largest storage position value is determined as the shelving storage position of the article to be shelved. In step S603, the storage position value of each empty storage position is calculated, and then the storage position with the largest storage position value is selected as the shelving storage position, and the article to be shelved is shelved at the shelving storage position.
According to the method for shelving the articles, disclosed by the embodiment of the invention, the method can be used for recommending the proper shelving storage positions for the articles to be shelved by combining the specific storage position layout of the concentric polygonal warehouse and the information of the articles to be shelved in the historical task list, so that the effective recommendation of the shelving storage positions can be realized, and the dynamic adjustment of the flowability of the articles can be realized.
The method for shelving the articles based on the concentric polygon warehouse provided by the embodiment of the invention comprises the following main steps: after receiving an article shelving instruction, acquiring attribute information of at least one article to be shelved and storage position information of the at least one article to be shelved in the concentric polygon warehouse; and based on the shelving rules of the concentric polygon warehouse, dividing at least one article to be shelved into at least one shelving task group according to the attribute information and the storage position information, and shelving the article according to the at least one shelving task group.
The method for placing the article has been specifically explained in step S202 and step S203, when the article is placed, the attribute information of all the articles to be placed is first acquired, and the attribute information of the article in the embodiment of the present invention may include information such as the type of the article, the production date of the article, and the expiration date of the article. In addition to the attribute information of the article to be shelved, the storage position information of the article to be shelved in the concentric polygon warehouse, that is, the information of which specific storage position the article to be shelved exists in the concentric polygon warehouse is obtained. Then, all the articles to be shelved are grouped according to the shelving rules of the concentric polygon warehouse and by combining the acquired attribute information and the storage position information, so that a task group for shelving is obtained. And finally, carrying out article shelving according to the obtained shelving task group. All the articles to be placed on the shelves are grouped by combining the acquired attribute information and storage position information, or weighted values are set for the attribute information and the storage position information, and the articles to be placed on the shelves are divided into a plurality of task groups to be placed on the shelves according to the set weighted values and the placing rules of the concentric polygon warehouse. Wherein, the lower rule of the concentric polygon warehouse may include: aiming at one off-shelf task group, the storage areas corresponding to the articles in the off-shelf task group are the same concentric polygon storage areas or the storage areas corresponding to the articles in the off-shelf task group are two adjacent concentric polygon storage areas. For ease of understanding, the storage area layout of the concentric polygon warehouse shown in fig. 3 is described. For example, if the items to be shelved are divided into 3 task groups for shelving, then all the items in the 1 st task group in the 3 task groups for shelving are located in storage area a, or the items in the 1 st task group are located in storage areas a and C, but the items in the 1 st task group cannot be located in both storage areas a and E. Because there is a aisle between bin a and bin C, but there is no direct aisle between bin a and bin E, if items in task group 1 are located in both bins a and E, the off-shelf path of the items is increased. Therefore, the goods sorting time in the goods placing process can be reduced, the goods sorting efficiency is improved, and the production efficiency of the warehouse is further improved by grouping according to the placing rules of the concentric polygon warehouse.
The following specific explanation is made with respect to the above description. Taking the storage area layout diagram of the concentric polygon warehouse shown in fig. 3 as an example, the following 5 items (item 1, item 2, item 3, item 4, and item 5) are assumed. When the article is put on shelf, the frequency of appearance of the article 1 and the article 3 is high according to the analysis of the historical task list. In this case, racking brings items 1 and 3 in proximity to storage area a (in the case of storage area a having empty storage locations).
When the items are off-shelved, it is assumed that the details of the particular storage area are as follows: item 1 is located in reservoir a, item 2 is located in reservoir B, item 3 is located in reservoir a, item 4 is located in reservoir D, and item 5 is located in reservoir E. There are 10 orders at this time, the specific details of which are as follows: an article 1 needs to be placed on shelf in Order1, an article 2 needs to be placed on shelf in Order2, an article 1 needs to be placed on shelf in Order3, an article 3 needs to be placed on shelf in Order4, an article 2 needs to be placed on shelf in Order5, an article 4 needs to be placed on shelf in Order6, an article 1 needs to be placed on shelf in Order7, an article 5 needs to be placed on shelf in Order8, an article 3 needs to be placed on shelf in Order9, and an article 2 needs to be placed on shelf in Order 10. At this time, all the items 1 needing to be put down in Order1, Order3 and Order7 are distributed as storage areas A, and the storage areas A can be used for generating the same task group to be put down. Both of Order4 and Order9 that need to be shelved are item 3, which is obtained from analysis, and item 3 is often collocated with item 1 for picking, so that a set of shelving tasks can be generated from Order1, Order3, Order7, Order4 and Order9 together.
According to the technical scheme of the concentric polygon warehouse for putting articles on and off the shelf, the novel concentric polygon warehouse can be provided, so that the problem that the path and time for putting articles on and off the shelf are prolonged due to the arrangement of the determinant storage area of the current warehouse can be solved, and the space utilization rate and the production efficiency of the warehouse can be improved. In addition, the goods on-shelf and off-shelf method based on the concentric polygon warehouse is further provided, the specific storage position layout of the concentric polygon warehouse and the information of the goods to be placed on the shelf in the historical task list can be combined, the proper storage position on the shelf is recommended for the goods to be placed on the shelf, the effective recommendation of the storage position on the shelf can be realized, the dynamic adjustment of the liquidity of the goods is realized, the goods to be placed off the shelf can be divided into off-shelf task groups according to the specific storage position information and the attribute information of the goods to be placed off the shelf and the off-shelf rule of the concentric polygon warehouse are combined, then the goods placing is completed, the goods picking time in the goods placing off-shelf process can be reduced, the goods picking efficiency is improved, and the production efficiency of the warehouse.
Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of the main modules of an apparatus for racking articles on and off a concentric polygon based warehouse according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 7, the apparatus 700 for loading and unloading articles based on a concentric polygon warehouse according to an embodiment of the present invention mainly includes the following modules: an upper rack module 701, a lower rack module 702, and a grouping module 703.
The shelving module 701 may be configured to determine a shelving storage location of an article to be shelved according to the storage location layout and the historical task list of the concentric polygon warehouse provided in the foregoing embodiment after receiving an article shelving instruction, so as to complete shelving; the shelving module 702 may be configured to, after receiving an article shelving instruction, obtain attribute information of at least one article to be shelved and storage location information of the at least one article to be shelved in the concentric polygon warehouse; the grouping module 703 may be configured to divide at least one article to be shelved into at least one shelving task group according to the acquired attribute information and storage location information based on a shelving rule of the concentric polygon warehouse, and perform shelving of the article according to the at least one shelving task group.
In this embodiment of the present invention, the shelving module 701 may further be configured to: according to the storage position layout of the concentric polygon warehouse provided by the embodiment, an empty storage position set of the concentric polygon warehouse is obtained; acquiring the frequency information and collocation information of the articles to be placed on the shelf according to the historical task list; aiming at one empty storage position in the empty storage position set, acquiring the position information of the empty storage position, and calculating the storage position value of the empty storage position according to the position information of the empty storage position, the frequency information of the articles to be shelved and the collocation information; and determining the empty storage position with the maximum storage position value as the shelving storage position of the article to be shelved.
In this embodiment of the present invention, the shelf-descending rule of the concentric polygon warehouse may include: aiming at one off-shelf task group, the storage areas corresponding to the articles in the off-shelf task group are the same concentric polygon storage area or the storage areas corresponding to the articles in the off-shelf task group are two adjacent concentric polygon storage areas.
As can be seen from the foregoing description, the device for shelving goods on and off based on a concentric polygon warehouse according to the embodiment of the present invention can provide a novel concentric polygon warehouse, so that the problem that the path and time for shelving goods on and off are lengthened due to the current layout of the determinant storage area of the warehouse can be overcome, and the space utilization rate and the production efficiency of the warehouse can be improved. In addition, the goods on-shelf and off-shelf method based on the concentric polygon warehouse is further provided, the specific storage position layout of the concentric polygon warehouse and the information of the goods to be placed on the shelf in the historical task list can be combined, the proper storage position on the shelf is recommended for the goods to be placed on the shelf, the effective recommendation of the storage position on the shelf can be realized, the dynamic adjustment of the liquidity of the goods is realized, the goods to be placed off the shelf can be divided into off-shelf task groups according to the specific storage position information and the attribute information of the goods to be placed off the shelf and the off-shelf rule of the concentric polygon warehouse are combined, then the goods placing is completed, the goods picking time in the goods placing off-shelf process can be reduced, the goods picking efficiency is improved, and the production efficiency of the warehouse.
Fig. 8 illustrates an exemplary system architecture 800 of a method for shelving items in a concentric polygon based warehouse or an apparatus for shelving items in a concentric polygon based warehouse to which embodiments of the present invention may be applied.
As shown in fig. 8, the system architecture 800 may include terminal devices 801, 802, 803, a network 804, and a server 805. The network 804 serves to provide a medium for communication links between the terminal devices 801, 802, 803 and the server 805. Network 804 may include various types of connections, such as wire, wireless communication links, or fiber optic cables, to name a few.
A user may use the terminal devices 801, 802, 803 to interact with a server 805 over a network 804 to receive or send messages or the like. The terminal devices 801, 802, 803 may have installed thereon various communication client applications, such as shopping-like applications, web browser applications, search-like applications, instant messaging tools, mailbox clients, social platform software, etc. (by way of example only).
The terminal devices 801, 802, 803 may be various electronic devices having a display screen and supporting web browsing, including but not limited to smart phones, tablet computers, laptop portable computers, desktop computers, and the like.
The server 805 may be a server that provides various services, such as a back-office management server (for example only) that supports shopping-like websites browsed by users using the terminal devices 801, 802, 803. The backend management server may analyze and perform other processing on the received data such as the product information query request, and feed back a processing result (for example, target push information, product information — just an example) to the terminal device.
It should be noted that the method for shelving items in and out of the concentric polygon warehouse provided by the embodiment of the present invention is generally performed by the server 805, and accordingly, the device for shelving items in and out of the concentric polygon warehouse is generally disposed in the server 805.
It should be understood that the number of terminal devices, networks, and servers in fig. 8 is merely illustrative. There may be any number of terminal devices, networks, and servers, as desired for implementation.
Referring now to FIG. 9, shown is a block diagram of a computer system 900 suitable for use with a terminal device implementing an embodiment of the present invention. The terminal device shown in fig. 9 is only an example, and should not bring any limitation to the functions and the scope of use of the embodiments of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 9, the computer system 900 includes a Central Processing Unit (CPU)901 that can perform various appropriate actions and processes in accordance with a program stored in a Read Only Memory (ROM)902 or a program loaded from a storage section 908 into a Random Access Memory (RAM) 903. In the RAM 903, various programs and data necessary for the operation of the system 900 are also stored. The CPU 901, ROM 902, and RAM 903 are connected to each other via a bus 904. An input/output (I/O) interface 905 is also connected to bus 904.
The following components are connected to the I/O interface 905: an input portion 906 including a keyboard, a mouse, and the like; an output section 907 including components such as a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT), a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), and the like, and a speaker; a storage portion 908 including a hard disk and the like; and a communication section 909 including a network interface card such as a LAN card, a modem, or the like. The communication section 909 performs communication processing via a network such as the internet. The drive 910 is also connected to the I/O interface 905 as necessary. A removable medium 911 such as a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, a semiconductor memory, or the like is mounted on the drive 910 as necessary, so that a computer program read out therefrom is mounted into the storage section 908 as necessary.
In particular, according to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the processes described above with reference to the flowcharts may be implemented as computer software programs. For example, embodiments of the present disclosure include a computer program product comprising a computer program embodied on a computer readable medium, the computer program comprising program code for performing the method illustrated in the flow chart. In such an embodiment, the computer program may be downloaded and installed from a network through the communication section 909, and/or installed from the removable medium 911. The above-described functions defined in the system of the present invention are executed when the computer program is executed by a Central Processing Unit (CPU) 901.
It should be noted that the computer readable medium shown in the present invention can be a computer readable signal medium or a computer readable storage medium or any combination of the two. A computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any combination of the foregoing. More specific examples of the computer readable storage medium may include, but are not limited to: an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. In the present invention, a computer readable storage medium may be any tangible medium that can contain, or store a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. In the present invention, however, a computer readable signal medium may include a propagated data signal with computer readable program code embodied therein, for example, in baseband or as part of a carrier wave. Such a propagated data signal may take many forms, including, but not limited to, electro-magnetic, optical, or any suitable combination thereof. A computer readable signal medium may also be any computer readable medium that is not a computer readable storage medium and that can communicate, propagate, or transport a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. Program code embodied on a computer readable medium may be transmitted using any appropriate medium, including but not limited to: wireless, wire, fiber optic cable, RF, etc., or any suitable combination of the foregoing.
The flowchart and block diagrams in the figures illustrate the architecture, functionality, and operation of possible implementations of systems, methods and computer program products according to various embodiments of the present invention. In this regard, each block in the flowchart or block diagrams may represent a module, segment, or portion of code, which comprises one or more executable instructions for implementing the specified logical function(s). It should also be noted that, in some alternative implementations, the functions noted in the block may occur out of the order noted in the figures. For example, two blocks shown in succession may, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality involved. It will also be noted that each block of the block diagrams or flowchart illustration, and combinations of blocks in the block diagrams or flowchart illustration, can be implemented by special purpose hardware-based systems which perform the specified functions or acts, or combinations of special purpose hardware and computer instructions.
The modules described in the embodiments of the present invention may be implemented by software or hardware. The described modules may also be provided in a processor, which may be described as: a processor includes an on-shelf module, an off-shelf module, and a grouping module. The names of the modules do not limit the modules, for example, the shelving module can also be described as a module for determining a shelving storage position of an article to be shelved according to the storage position layout of the concentric polygon warehouse and a historical task list after receiving an article shelving instruction so as to complete shelving.
As another aspect, the present invention also provides a computer-readable medium that may be contained in the apparatus described in the above embodiments; or may be separate and not incorporated into the device. The computer readable medium carries one or more programs which, when executed by a device, cause the device to comprise: after receiving an article racking instruction, determining a racking storage position of an article to be racked according to the storage position layout and the historical task list of the concentric polygon warehouse to complete racking; after receiving an article shelving instruction, acquiring attribute information of at least one article to be shelved and storage position information of the at least one article to be shelved in the concentric polygon warehouse; and based on the shelving rules of the concentric polygon warehouse, dividing at least one article to be shelved into at least one shelving task group according to the attribute information and the storage position information, and shelving the article according to the at least one shelving task group.
According to the technical scheme of the embodiment of the invention, a novel concentric polygon warehouse can be provided, so that the problem that the ascending and descending paths and time of articles are lengthened due to the current layout of the determinant storage area of the warehouse can be solved, and the space utilization rate and the production efficiency of the warehouse can be improved. In addition, the goods on-shelf and off-shelf method based on the concentric polygon warehouse is further provided, the specific storage position layout of the concentric polygon warehouse and the information of the goods to be placed on the shelf in the historical task list can be combined, the proper storage position on the shelf is recommended for the goods to be placed on the shelf, the effective recommendation of the storage position on the shelf can be realized, the dynamic adjustment of the liquidity of the goods is realized, the goods to be placed off the shelf can be divided into off-shelf task groups according to the specific storage position information and the attribute information of the goods to be placed off the shelf and the off-shelf rule of the concentric polygon warehouse are combined, then the goods placing is completed, the goods picking time in the goods placing off-shelf process can be reduced, the goods picking efficiency is improved, and the production efficiency of the warehouse.
The above-described embodiments should not be construed as limiting the scope of the invention. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications, combinations, sub-combinations, and substitutions can occur, depending on design requirements and other factors. Any modification, equivalent replacement, and improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.