CN112837002A

CN112837002A - Method and device for delivering articles out of warehouse, electronic equipment and storage medium

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Publication number: CN112837002A
Application number: CN201911154086.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 卢鹏飞
Original assignee: Beijing Jingdong Zhenshi Information Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Jingdong Zhenshi Information Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-11-22
Filing date: 2019-11-22
Publication date: 2021-05-25

Abstract

The invention discloses a method and a device for delivering articles out of a warehouse, electronic equipment and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of computers. One embodiment of the method comprises: receiving a picking task issued by a picking system; determining N containers which are full when goods to be picked are delivered from the warehouse based on the quantity of the full containers corresponding to the delivery quantity and the goods identification; sending a full first ex-warehouse request to a vertical warehouse management system; receiving first response information sent by a vertical library management system; and sending full container information to the goods picking system, wherein the full container information comprises the identifications of the N containers and the capacities of the N containers, so that the goods picking system determines the goods delivery mode of the goods to be delivered according to the identifications of the N containers and the capacities of the N containers. The implementation mode can reduce the interaction between the goods picking system and the full-box delivery system, and reduce the message loss probability and the data transmission error rate during interaction.

Description

Method and device for delivering articles out of warehouse, electronic equipment and storage medium

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of computers, in particular to a method and a device for delivering articles out of a warehouse, electronic equipment and a storage medium.

Background

In the warehouse management system, when the manifest containing a large number of the same articles is delivered, the mode of full-box delivery is usually considered as a priority, that is, for the articles in the manifest, the portion capable of filling the whole box is fully picked, the remaining portion less than the full box is normally picked, and then the delivery is checked again. The specific mode of full-box ex-warehouse is determined by a goods picking system, a full-box ex-warehouse system and a vertical warehouse management system in the warehouse management system. Specifically, the goods picking system issues a goods picking task for a certain goods order to the full-box delivery system, the full-box delivery system sends a request to the vertical warehouse management system after determining that the goods order can be delivered in full boxes, the vertical warehouse management system receives the request and determines a container for delivery in full boxes, container information is returned to the vertical warehouse management system, specific information of delivery in full boxes of the goods order is determined to the vertical warehouse management system, and the determined specific information is sent to the goods picking system, so that the goods picking system can deliver goods.

In the above process, if the goods in the manifest need to pass through a plurality of containers for delivery, the full-box delivery system needs to send a plurality of requests to the inventory management system, and meanwhile, the full-box delivery system also receives container information returned by the inventory management system for a plurality of times, and returns the information and information of the part of the manifest which cannot be filled with the full boxes (needs to be picked normally) to the picking system one by one.

In the process of implementing the invention, the inventor finds that at least the following problems exist in the prior art:

when goods in the manifest need to be delivered from the warehouse through a plurality of containers, the warehouse-standing management system can return container information for a plurality of times, and the full-box warehouse-discharging system can immediately send the container information to the goods-picking system after receiving the container information every time, so that the goods-picking system, the full-box warehouse-discharging system and the warehouse-standing management system need to be frequently interacted for a plurality of times to complete. However, the probability of message loss during interaction is increased under the condition of multiple interactions, so that the error rate of data transmission is increased, and the delivery efficiency of the manifest is reduced.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of this, embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus, a system, and a storage medium for delivering an item out of a warehouse, which can reduce interactions among a picking system, a full-box delivery system, and a vertical warehouse management system, reduce a probability of message loss and a data transmission error rate during the interactions, and avoid reducing the delivery efficiency of a manifest.

To achieve the above object, according to an aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of discharging an article.

The method for delivering the articles out of the warehouse in the embodiment of the invention comprises the following steps: receiving a picking task issued by a picking system, wherein the picking task comprises an item identifier of an item to be picked and the delivery quantity of the item to be picked; determining N containers which are full of the goods to be picked when the goods to be picked are delivered from the warehouse based on the delivery quantity and the quantity of the full containers corresponding to the goods identification, wherein N is an integer larger than zero, and the quantity of the full containers represents the quantity of the goods to be delivered from the warehouse when the containers are full of the goods to be delivered from the warehouse; sending a full first delivery request to a vertical warehouse management system, wherein the first delivery request is used for requesting the vertical warehouse management system to determine the goods to be picked for delivering N containers; receiving first response information sent by the vertical warehouse management system, wherein the first response information comprises the identifiers of the N containers for the goods to be delivered out of the warehouse and the capacities of the N containers; and sending the full container information to the picking system, wherein the full container information comprises the identifications of the N containers and the capacities of the N containers, so that the picking system determines the delivery mode of the articles to be delivered according to the identifications of the N containers and the capacities of the N containers.

In one embodiment, before said sending full container information to said picking system, further comprising: determining a picking number for the non-full containers of items to be picked based on the ex-warehouse number and the sum of the capacities of the N containers; said sending said full container information to said picking system comprises: and sending the full container information and the picking quantity to the picking system so that the picking system determines the delivery mode of the items to be delivered according to the full container information and the picking quantity.

In yet another embodiment, said determining a pick count for said non-full container of items to be picked based on a sum of said ex-warehouse count and said N container capacity comprises: determining the remaining quantity obtained by subtracting the sum of the capacities of the N containers from the ex-warehouse quantity; if the remaining quantity is less than the full container quantity, determining the remaining quantity as the picking quantity of the non-full containers of the goods to be picked; if the residual quantity is larger than or equal to the full container quantity, determining M containers required by the residual quantity of the goods to be picked for delivery from the warehouse based on the residual quantity and the full container quantity, wherein M is an integer larger than zero; sending a second ex-warehouse request for requesting the M containers to the vertical warehouse management system; receiving second response information sent by the vertical library management system, wherein the second response information comprises the identifications and the capacities of the M containers; determining a picking number for the non-full container shipment of the item to be picked based on the sum of the remaining number and the capacity of the M containers; the full container information further includes the identifications of the M containers and their capacities.

In yet another embodiment, before said sending said full container information to said picking system, further comprising: judging whether the sum of the capacities of the N containers is larger than the ex-warehouse quantity; if not, determining the identifiers of the N containers and the capacities of the N containers as the full container information; if yes, determining one container in the N containers as an unused container, and enabling the sum of the capacities of other containers except the unused container in the N containers to be smaller than or equal to the ex-warehouse quantity; sending a cancellation message to the librarian management system, the cancellation message including an identification of the unused container; and taking the identification of the other containers except the unused container in the N containers and the capacity of the containers as the full container information.

In another embodiment, the sending the first ex-warehouse request to the vertical warehouse management system includes: sending the N first ex-warehouse requests to a vertical warehouse management system; the receiving the first response information sent to the vertical library management system includes: and receiving the N pieces of first response information sent to the vertical warehouse management system, wherein the N pieces of first response information are respectively in one-to-one correspondence with the N pieces of first ex-warehouse requests.

In yet another embodiment, the pick up task further comprises a pick up identifier; the full container information further includes the pick identifier and the item identifier.

To achieve the above object, according to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for discharging an article.

The invention relates to a device for delivering articles out of a warehouse, which comprises: the receiving unit is used for receiving a picking task issued by a picking system, and the picking task comprises an item identifier of an item to be picked and the delivery quantity of the item to be picked; the determining unit is used for determining N containers which are full of the goods to be picked when the goods to be picked are delivered from the warehouse based on the delivery quantity and the quantity of the full containers corresponding to the goods identification, wherein N is an integer larger than zero, and the quantity of the full containers represents the quantity of the goods to be delivered from the warehouse when the containers are full of the goods to be delivered from the warehouse; the picking device comprises a sending unit, a picking unit and a picking unit, wherein the sending unit is used for sending a full first ex-warehouse request to a vertical warehouse management system, and the first ex-warehouse request is used for requesting the vertical warehouse management system to determine N containers of goods to be picked for ex-warehouse; the receiving unit is further configured to receive first response information sent by the vertical warehouse management system, where the first response information includes identifiers of the N containers used for the articles to be delivered from the warehouse and capacities of the N containers; the sending unit is further configured to send the full-package container information to the picking system, where the full-package container information includes the identifiers of the N containers and the capacities of the N containers, so that the picking system determines the delivery manner of the items to be delivered according to the identifiers of the N containers and the capacities of the N containers.

In one embodiment, the determining unit is further configured to determine the picking number of the non-full containers for the goods to be picked based on the sum of the ex-warehouse number and the capacities of the N containers; the sending unit is specifically configured to send the full-package container information and the picking number to the picking system, so that the picking system determines the delivery mode of the items to be delivered according to the full-package container information and the picking number.

In another embodiment, the determining unit is specifically configured to: determining the remaining quantity obtained by subtracting the sum of the capacities of the N containers from the ex-warehouse quantity; if the remaining quantity is less than the full container quantity, determining the remaining quantity as the picking quantity of the non-full containers of the goods to be picked; if the residual quantity is larger than or equal to the full container quantity, determining M containers required by the residual quantity of the goods to be picked for delivery from the warehouse based on the residual quantity and the full container quantity, wherein M is an integer larger than zero; sending a second ex-warehouse request for requesting the M containers to the vertical warehouse management system; receiving second response information sent by the vertical library management system, wherein the second response information comprises the identifications and the capacities of the M containers; determining a picking number for the non-full container shipment of the item to be picked based on the sum of the remaining number and the capacity of the M containers; the full container information further includes the identifications of the M containers and their capacities.

In yet another embodiment, further comprising:

the judging unit is used for judging whether the sum of the capacities of the N containers is larger than the ex-warehouse quantity or not; the determining unit is further configured to determine, if not, the identifiers of the N containers and the capacities thereof as the full container information; the determining unit is further configured to determine, if yes, one of the N containers as an unused container, so that a sum of capacities of other containers, except the unused container, of the N containers is less than or equal to the ex-warehouse quantity; the sending unit is further configured to send a cancellation message to the library management system, where the cancellation message includes an identifier of the unused container; the determining unit is further configured to use, as the full container information, identifiers of other containers of the N containers except the unused container and capacities thereof.

In another embodiment, the sending unit is specifically configured to send the N first ex-warehouse requests to a vertical warehouse management system; the receiving unit is specifically configured to receive the N pieces of first response information sent to the library-based management system, where the N pieces of first response information correspond to the N pieces of first ex-warehouse requests one to one.

To achieve the above object, according to still another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an electronic apparatus.

An electronic device of an embodiment of the present invention includes: one or more processors; the storage device is used for storing one or more programs, and when the one or more programs are executed by the one or more processors, the one or more processors realize the method for exporting the articles, which is provided by the embodiment of the invention.

To achieve the above object, according to still another aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable medium.

A computer-readable medium of an embodiment of the present invention stores thereon a computer program, which when executed by a processor implements the method for delivering an item provided by an embodiment of the present invention.

One embodiment of the above invention has the following advantages or benefits: in the embodiment of the invention, after the full-box delivery system receives the identifier and the volume of the container returned by the vertical warehouse management system, the full-box delivery system can uniformly send the identifier and the volume to the picking system through the full-package container information. Therefore, in the process of determining the delivery of the articles, particularly when the articles in the manifest need to be delivered through a plurality of containers, the full-box delivery system sends the full-container information to the picking system at one time, interaction between the full-box delivery system and the picking system is reduced, the probability of message loss during interaction is reduced, the error rate of data transmission is reduced, and further the efficiency of order delivery is prevented from being reduced.

Further effects of the above-mentioned non-conventional alternatives will be described below in connection with the embodiments.

Drawings

The drawings are included to provide a better understanding of the invention and are not to be construed as unduly limiting the invention. Wherein:

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a principal flow of a method of warehousing items according to the prior art;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a main flow of a method of ex-warehouse items according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of yet another major flow of a method of out-warehousing items according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of yet another major flow of a method of out-warehousing items according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the main units of an apparatus for the removal of items from a warehouse, according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is an exemplary system architecture diagram in which embodiments of the present invention may be employed;

FIG. 7 is a schematic block diagram of a computer system suitable for use in implementing embodiments of the present invention.

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.

It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict.

In warehouse management systems, the specific manner in which items in a manifest are removed from a warehouse is typically determined by a picking system, a full-bin removal system, and a vertical management system. The specific way is shown in figure 1.

And S101, the goods picking system issues goods picking tasks to the full-box delivery system.

The goods picking system comprises a goods list needing to be delivered out of the warehouse, and the goods in the goods list needing to be delivered out of the warehouse are the goods to be picked. When the goods bill needs to be delivered out of the warehouse, the goods picking system issues a goods picking task to the full-box delivery system, and the issued goods picking task comprises the identification of the goods picking task and the information of goods to be picked, such as the delivery quantity of the goods to be picked and the like.

And S102, the full-box ex-warehouse system sends out-warehouse requests to the vertical warehouse relational system.

After the full-box delivery system receives the picking task issued by the picking system, whether the goods to be picked can be delivered from the full-filling container or not, namely whether the goods can be delivered from the full-box or not can be judged according to the information of the goods to be picked in the picking task, and if the goods can be delivered from the full-filling container, a delivery request can be sent to the vertical warehouse system. The full-box delivery system sends a delivery request once, which means that a container for delivering the goods to be picked from the full-filled container is requested from the vertical warehouse management system. The vertical warehouse management system determines a proper container based on the warehouse-out request and returns the information of the determined container to the full-box warehouse-out system. If the goods to be picked in the manifest are large in quantity and can be delivered out of the warehouse through a plurality of containers, the full-box delivery system needs to send multiple delivery requests to the vertical warehouse management system, and meanwhile container information returned by the vertical warehouse management system for multiple times can be received. Taking the example that the goods to be picked need 5 containers to be delivered, the full-box delivery system sends 5 delivery requests to the vertical warehouse management system through the full-box delivery interface fclQuery, that is, the processes executed in step S102, step S103, step S104, step S105, and step S106.

And S102, the full-box ex-warehouse system sends out-warehouse requests to the vertical warehouse relational system. S103, the full-box ex-warehouse system sends out-warehouse requests to the vertical warehouse relational system. And S104, the full-box ex-warehouse system sends an ex-warehouse request to the vertical warehouse relational system. And S105, the full-box ex-warehouse system sends an ex-warehouse request to the vertical warehouse relation system. And S106, the full-box ex-warehouse system sends an ex-warehouse request to the vertical warehouse relational system.

The full-box ex-warehouse system can send an ex-warehouse request fclQueryReq to the librarian management system by calling a request full-box out-interface fclQuery.

Wherein fclQueryReq ═ { orderNum, goodsNo, quality 1 }. orderNum represents the identity of the picking task, giddso represents the item identity of the item to be picked, and quality 1 represents the number of shipments of the item to be picked. The full-box ex-warehouse system transmits an ex-warehouse request to the liberal management system through step S102, step S103, step S104, step S105, and step S106.

After receiving the ex-warehouse request sent by the full-box ex-warehouse system, the librarian management system may determine a container corresponding to the ex-warehouse request based on a parameter in the ex-warehouse request, and send a return parameter fclQueryRet including container information of the determined container to the full-box ex-warehouse system, that is, a process executed in step S107, step S108, step S109, step S110, and step S111. The return parameters include container information for determining the container, such as the identification of the container and the capacity of the container.

And S107, the vertical library relation system sends the return parameters corresponding to the step S102 to the full-box ex-warehouse system. And S108, the vertical warehouse relation system sends the return parameters corresponding to the step S103 to the full-box warehouse-out system. And S109, the vertical library relation system sends the return parameters corresponding to the step S104 to the full-box ex-warehouse system. And S110, the vertical warehouse relation system sends the return parameters corresponding to the step S105 to the full-box warehouse-out system. And S111, the vertical library relation system sends the return parameters corresponding to the step S106 to the full-box ex-warehouse system.

And the vertical library relation system sends a return parameter fclQueryRet ═ orderNum, loadUnit, goodsNo, qualification 2, status1 to the full-box ex-warehouse system. orderNum indicates the identification of the picking task, loadUnit indicates the identification of the container that the vertical warehouse management system has determined, goodsNo indicates the item identification of the item to be picked, quality 2 indicates the capacity of the container that the vertical warehouse management system has determined, status1 indicates the out-warehouse status, 0 indicates that the warehouse is available, and 1 indicates that the warehouse is unavailable. Since there may be no container suitable for the warehouse-out request in the vertical warehouse management system, the container corresponding to the warehouse-out request cannot be determined, at this time, status1 in the return parameter is 1, and loadUnit and qualification 2 are empty. When the container suitable for the warehouse-out request exists in the warehouse-standing management system and can be determined according to the warehouse-out request, status1 in the return parameters is 0, the loadUnit is the identifier for determining the container, and the qualification 2 is the capacity for determining the container.

After the full-box warehouse-out system receives the return parameters sent by the warehouse-standing management system, the value of status1 may be determined. If status1 has a value of 1, it indicates that there is no suitable container and the full-bin destage system may send a destage request to the staging management system. If status1 has a value of 0, indicating that there is a suitable container, container information for the shipment of the items in the manifest, i.e., the identification and capacity of the container, may be determined based on the return parameters and the container information needs to be returned to the picking system for the picking system to pick the items in the manifest. Steps S112, S113, S114, S115 and S116 in fig. 1 perform a process of returning the container information to the picking system.

S112, the full-bin delivery system sends the container information received in step S107 to the picking system. And S113, the full-box delivery system sends the container information received in the step S108 to the picking system. And S114, the full-box delivery system sends the container information received in the step S109 to the picking system. S115, the full-bin delivery system sends the container information received in step S110 to the picking system. And S116, the full-box delivery system sends the container information received in the step S111 to the picking system.

After the full-container delivery system determines the containers required by the full-container delivery of the goods in the manifest, the full-container delivery system needs to determine whether non-full-container delivery is required. If it is determined that the item still needs to be delivered from the non-full container, the picking quantity of the non-full container of the item is calculated again, and the picking quantity of the non-full container is sent to the picking system, and step S117 is executed.

And S117, the full-box delivery system sends the picking number of the non-full-containers to the picking system.

The full-box delivery system can return to the common picking interface fclremainndo by calling confirmation, and the picking quantity of the non-full containers is sent to the picking system. fclrimain do ═ goodsNo, quality 3, goodsNo indicates the item identity of the item to be picked, quality 3 indicates the pick count for non-full containers.

After the full-container warehouse-out system receives the return parameters sent by the warehouse-standing management system through step S107, step S108, step S109, step S110, and step S111, it may be determined whether the container can be fully loaded for warehouse-out according to the container information in the return parameters. And if the container can be used for full container ex-warehouse, sending a parameter fclDo for confirming the full container ex-warehouse to the vertical warehouse management system, and if the container cannot be used for full container ex-warehouse, sending a parameter fclCancel for canceling the full container ex-warehouse to the vertical warehouse management system. Wherein fclDoReq ═ { loadUnit }, loadUnit represents the identifier of the container in the corresponding return parameter, fclcarcel ═ { loadUnit }, and loadUnit represents the identifier of the container in the corresponding return parameter.

As can be understood from the process shown in fig. 1, since the full-container delivery system sends a delivery request to the inventory management system once, and the inventory management system determines the containers meeting the request, if the articles in the manifest need to be delivered through a plurality of containers, the full-container delivery system needs to send a plurality of requests to the inventory management system, and meanwhile, the full-container delivery system also receives container information returned by the inventory management system for a plurality of times, and returns the information and information of the parts of the manifest that cannot be delivered with fully-filled containers (which need to be picked up by ordinary goods) to the goods picking system one by one. So stand storehouse management system returns container information many times, and full case warehouse-out system can send container information for choosing the goods system after receiving container information at every turn, and this will lead to choosing the goods system, need frequent interaction many times between full case warehouse-out system and the stand storehouse management system just can accomplish, and the probability that the message was lost when the interactive condition can improve the interaction many times leads to the data transmission error rate to improve, and then can reduce the efficiency that the manifest was warehouse-out.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for delivering an article from a warehouse, where the method may be performed by a full-box delivery system, as shown in fig. 2, and the method includes:

s201: receiving the picking task issued by the picking system.

The picking task comprises an item identification of the goods to be picked and the delivery quantity of the goods to be picked.

When the goods list in the goods picking system needs to be delivered out of the warehouse, the goods picking system issues goods picking tasks to the full-box delivery system, and the goods picking tasks comprise the identification of the goods picking tasks and specific information of goods to be picked, such as the item identification of the goods to be picked and the delivery quantity of the goods to be picked. The article identification of the goods to be picked is used for distinguishing the goods to be picked, and the quantity of the goods to be picked in the delivery list represents the total quantity of the goods to be picked in the delivery list.

S202: and determining N containers which are full of the goods to be picked when the goods to be picked are delivered from the warehouse based on the delivery quantity and the quantity of the full containers corresponding to the goods identification.

It should be noted that the number of full containers indicates the number of articles in the container when the articles are fully loaded in the container, the number of full containers corresponding to the article identifier is the number of full containers corresponding to the articles to be picked, and since the number of full containers corresponding to different containers is different, the number of full containers may be specifically an average value, a median value, or a minimum value, etc. of the number of full containers corresponding to each container corresponding to the article identifier. Because of the different sizes of different articles, the number of full containers corresponding to different articles is also different. The full container quantity of each article can be preset in the full-box delivery system, and then after a picking task is received, the full container quantity corresponding to the article identification is inquired through the identification of the article to be picked, namely the full container quantity corresponding to the article. Because the full containers are likely to be delivered only if the delivery quantity of the goods to be picked is greater than the full containers, the full-box delivery system can firstly judge whether the delivery quantity is greater than zero and whether the delivery quantity is greater than the full containers. If the warehouse-out quantity is not more than zero or the warehouse-out quantity is less than the full container quantity, the warehouse-out quantity of the goods to be picked is represented as that the full container can not be picked, and the full-box warehouse-out system can directly return the result to the picking system. If the warehouse-out quantity is not less than the full container quantity, the warehouse-out quantity of the goods to be picked is represented to be capable of being discharged from the full container, and the full-box warehouse-out system can continue to execute the following procedures. If the warehouse-out quantity of the goods to be picked is large, the full containers need to be unloaded through a plurality of containers, N containers needed by the full containers to be unloaded can be preliminarily determined in the step, and N is an integer larger than zero.

In this step, the integer number of the result obtained by dividing the warehouse-out number by the number of the full containers corresponding to the article identifier can be determined as N, where N is an integer greater than 0. For example, assuming that the number of ex-warehouses is 110 and the number of full containers is 20, it can be found that N is 5.

S203: and sending a first ex-warehouse request to the vertical warehouse management system.

The first ex-warehouse request is used for requesting the vertical warehouse management system to determine N containers for the ex-warehouse of goods to be picked.

After the full-box ex-warehouse system determines N, a first ex-warehouse request can be sent to the vertical warehouse management system to request the vertical warehouse management system to allocate a responding container for the goods to be picked. Step S202 determines N, and in this step, a warehouse-out request is sent to request N containers.

The manner of sending the first ex-warehouse request for requesting N containers in this step is not limited, for example, only one first ex-warehouse request may be sent to request N containers, or N first warehouse requests may also be sent, where each request is used to request one container.

The first ex-warehouse request can also comprise the item identification of the to-be-picked item, the identification of the picking task, the expected ex-warehouse quantity corresponding to the request, the full container quantity and other parameters.

S204: and receiving first response information sent by the vertical library management system.

The first response information comprises the identification of the N containers for the goods to be delivered and the capacity of the containers.

After receiving the first ex-warehouse request sent by the full-box ex-warehouse system, the vertical warehouse management system can determine a corresponding container according to the first ex-warehouse request, and send container information of the determined container to the full-box ex-warehouse system. Since the ex-warehouse request in step S203 is to request N containers, the library management system may determine N containers and return container information of the N containers. The container information includes the identifier of the container and the capacity of the container, that is, the response information includes the identifiers of the N containers and the capacities of the N containers.

The sending method of the first response information including the identifiers of the N containers and the capacities thereof in this step is not limited, and for example, only one first response information including the identifiers of the N containers and the capacities thereof may be sent, and the N first response information may also be sent, where each first response information includes container information corresponding to the ex-warehouse request.

For example, in an implementation manner of the embodiment of the present invention, step S202 is specifically executed to send N first ex-warehouse requests to the library management system; step S202 is specifically executed to receive N pieces of first response information sent to the library management system, where the N pieces of first response information are respectively in one-to-one correspondence with the N pieces of first ex-warehouse requests.

The first response information may also include an item identification of the item to be picked, an identification of the picking task, etc. In particular, the return parameter shown in fig. 1 may be used.

It should be noted that, there may be no container suitable for the first ex-warehouse request in the vertical warehouse management system, and the returned first response information may have no container information, at this time, the full-box vertical warehouse system may send the first ex-warehouse request to the vertical warehouse management system again until the first response information returned by the vertical warehouse management system includes the container information.

In another implementation manner of the embodiment of the present invention, since the full-container warehouse-out system calculates N based on the number of full containers, but the capacity of the container determined in the warehouse-standing management system may not be exactly equal to the number of full containers, the sum of the capacities of N containers may not be the sum of the numbers of N full containers. For example, assuming that the number of ex-warehouse is 110 and the number of full containers is 20, it can be derived that N is 5, that is, 5 containers with 20 full capacity are requested to be ex-warehouse, and the remaining 10 are the picking numbers of non-full containers. However, the inventory management system determines that the capacities of 5 containers are 23, so that the sum of the capacities of the 5 containers is 115, and the number 110 of ex-warehouses that the capacity of the 5 containers exceeds at this time, if the 5 containers are ex-warehoused, some containers are not full. To avoid the above situation, the full-bin ex-warehouse system may further perform the following process before performing step S205: judging whether the sum of the capacities of the N containers is larger than the ex-warehouse quantity; if not, determining the identifiers of the N containers and the capacity of the N containers as full-container information; if yes, determining one container in the N containers as an unused container, and enabling the sum of the capacities of other containers except the unused container in the N containers to be smaller than or equal to the ex-warehouse quantity; sending a cancellation message to the vertical library management system, wherein the cancellation message comprises an identifier of an unused container; and taking the identification of the containers except the unused container and the capacity of the containers in the N containers as full container information.

After the full-container warehouse-out system executes step S204, it can be determined whether the sum of the capacities of the N containers is greater than the warehouse-out number. If the sum of the capacities of the N containers is less than or equal to the number of outgoing containers, it indicates that the N containers can be filled when the goods to be picked are outgoing from the warehouse, and at this time, the identifiers of the N containers and the capacities thereof may be determined as full container information, and step S205 is performed. If the sum of the capacities of the N containers is larger than the ex-warehouse quantity, the goods to be picked cannot be filled with the N containers when being out-warehouse, and one container can be determined from the N containers as an unused container so as to ensure that the sum of the capacities of the N containers except the unused container is smaller than or equal to the ex-warehouse quantity. The unused containers indicate containers that are not used for the shipment of the item to be picked, and the containers included in the last received first response message among the N containers may be generally selected as the unused containers. After the full-bin destage system determines that the container is not used, an identification cancellation message including the unused container may be sent to the staging management system to inform the staging management system that the unused container may be allocated to the destage of other items. Meanwhile, the full-container ex-warehouse system may use the identifiers of the other containers except the unused container and the capacity thereof as full-container information, and perform step S205.

S205: and sending full container information to the picking system.

The full container information comprises the identifications of the N containers and the capacities of the N containers, so that the goods picking system determines the delivery mode of the goods to be delivered according to the identifications of the N containers and the capacities of the N containers.

After the response information received in step S204, the full-box ex-warehouse system may obtain the container information of the containers allocated by the vertical warehouse management system for ex-warehouse of the goods to be picked, and the full-box ex-warehouse system may summarize the container information into full-container information and send the full-container information to the picking system at one time through this step.

The full container information may also include an identification of the picking task, an item identification of the item to be picked, and the full container information may be specifically denoted fclQueryRet, { ordernut, loadUnit4, goodsNo, quality 4 }. orderNum indicates the identity of the picking task, loadUnit4 indicates the identity of the N containers, goodsNo indicates the item identity of the item to be picked, and quality 4 indicates the capacity of the N containers.

In the embodiment of the invention, after the full-box delivery system receives the identifier and the volume of the container returned by the vertical warehouse management system, the full-box delivery system can uniformly send the identifier and the volume to the picking system through the full-package container information. Therefore, in the process of determining the delivery of the articles, particularly when the articles in the manifest need to be delivered through a plurality of containers, the full-box delivery system sends the full-container information to the picking system at one time, interaction between the full-box delivery system and the picking system is reduced, the probability of message loss during interaction is reduced, the error rate of data transmission is reduced, and further the efficiency of order delivery is prevented from being reduced.

In conjunction with the method of the embodiment shown in fig. 2, another method for delivering an item from a warehouse is provided in the embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3, which includes the following steps.

S301: receiving the picking task issued by the picking system.

S302: and determining N containers which are full when goods to be picked are delivered from the warehouse based on the delivery quantity and the quantity of the full containers corresponding to the goods identification.

S303: and sending a first ex-warehouse request to the vertical warehouse management system.

S304: and receiving first response information sent by the vertical library management system.

It should be noted that the flow and principle of the data processing in step S301 to step S304 are the same as those of the data processing in step S201 to step S204, and are not described again here.

S305: and determining the picking quantity of the non-full containers to be picked based on the quantity of the delivered goods and the sum of the capacities of the N containers.

After the full-package delivery system determines the container information for the full containers through step S304, the number of the containers that can hold the goods to be picked, i.e. the sum of the capacities of the N containers, can be obtained. Then, the picking number of the goods to be picked which are not full of the containers can be obtained through the difference between the warehouse-out number and the sum of the capacities of the N containers, namely, the zero picking number corresponding to the goods to be picked. For example, assuming that the number of ex-warehouse is 110 and the number of full containers is 20, it can be concluded that N is 5, i.e. 5 containers with 20 full capacity are requested, the inventory management system determines that the 5 containers with 20 full capacity are all 5, so that the sum of the 5 containers with 100 full capacity and the remaining 10 are the picking number of non-full containers for the goods to be picked.

S306: and sending the full container information and the picking quantity to a picking system.

The goods to be picked of the picking quantity of the non-full-filling containers do not meet the requirement of full-filling container delivery, and the full-box delivery system needs to inform the picking quantity to the picking system so that the picking system can correctly deliver the goods to be picked. In the step, the information of the full containers and the picking quantity are sent to the picking system together, so that the picking system determines the delivery mode of the articles to be delivered according to the information of the full containers and the picking quantity, and interaction between the picking system and the full-box delivery system can be further reduced.

The picking quantity in this step can be specifically expressed as fclrimaindo ═ orderNum, goodsNo, quantityRemain }. orderNum represents the identification of the picking task, goodso represents the item identification of the item to be picked, and quantityRemain represents the number of picks for non-full containers.

Therefore, the information of the full containers and the picking quantity are sent to the picking system together, interaction between the picking system and the full-box delivery system is further reduced, the probability of message loss during interaction can be further reduced, the data transmission error rate is reduced, and further the efficiency of order delivery is prevented from being reduced.

It should be noted that, since the full-container warehouse-out system calculates N based on the number of full containers, the capacity of the container determined in the warehouse-out management system may not be exactly equal to the number of full containers, and therefore the sum of the capacities of N containers may not be the sum of the number of N full containers. For example, assuming that the number of ex-warehouse is 110 and the number of full containers is 20, it can be concluded that N is 5, i.e. 5 containers with 20 capacity are ex-warehouse, and the remaining 10 are the picking number of non-full containers. However, if the inventory standing management system determines that the capacities of 5 containers are all 18, and thus the sum of the capacities of 5 containers is 90, the remaining 20 containers can be unloaded again, and at this time, the full-container unloading system needs to request the inventory standing management system for the containers full of containers again.

Step S305 may be specifically performed as: determining the residual quantity obtained by subtracting the sum of the capacities of the N containers from the ex-warehouse quantity; if the remaining quantity is less than the quantity of the full containers, determining the remaining quantity as the picking quantity of the goods to be picked which are not full containers; if the residual quantity is larger than or equal to the quantity of the full containers, determining M containers required by the residual quantity of the goods to be picked for delivery from the warehouse based on the residual quantity and the quantity of the full containers, wherein M is an integer larger than zero; sending a second ex-warehouse request for requesting the M containers to the vertical warehouse management system; receiving second response information sent by the vertical library management system, wherein the second response information comprises the identifications of the M containers and the capacities of the M containers; the pick count for non-full containers of items to be picked is determined based on the sum of the remaining count and the capacity of the M containers. The full container information in step S306 further includes the identifications of the M containers and their capacities.

After the full container ex-warehouse system determines the container information for ex-warehouse of the full containers through step S304, the sum of the capacities of the N containers is subtracted from the ex-warehouse quantity to obtain the remaining quantity of the ex-warehouse quantity except for the quantity of the N containers, and then the full container ex-warehouse system compares the remaining quantity with the full container quantity. If the remaining quantity is less than the full container quantity, the remaining quantity of the goods to be picked is not considered to satisfy the full container delivery, the remaining quantity can be determined as the picking quantity of the goods to be picked which is not full container, and then step S306 is executed. And if the residual quantity is larger than or equal to the quantity of the full containers, the residual quantity of the goods to be picked is considered to meet the requirement of full container delivery, the full-box delivery system needs to determine the integral digit of the result of dividing the residual quantity by the quantity of the full containers to be M, the result indicates that the delivery of the goods to be picked from the full containers needs M containers, and then a second delivery request for requesting the M containers is sent to the vertical warehouse management system. And after the M containers are determined to the vertical library management system, the identifiers and the capacities of the M containers are returned through the second response information. And after the full-box delivery system receives the second response information, the picking quantity of the non-full containers of the goods to be picked can be determined by subtracting the sum of the capacities of the M containers from the residual quantity. The identities of the N containers and their capacities, the identities of the M containers and their capacities, and the pick count may then be sent to the picking system together, via step S306.

In conjunction with the method of the embodiment shown in fig. 2 or fig. 3, the embodiment of the present invention provides a method for delivering goods from warehouse, in which the number of full containers is expressed as the minimum value of the number of full containers corresponding to the goods to be picked, and the delivery number of the goods to be picked is set to 110, and the number of full containers corresponding to the goods to be picked is set to 20, as shown in fig. 4, the method of the embodiment shown in fig. 2 or fig. 3 is specifically described, and includes the following steps.

S401: and the goods picking system issues goods picking tasks to the full-box delivery system.

The picking task comprises an identification of the picking task, an item identification of the item to be picked, and the delivery quantity 110 of the item to be picked.

It should be noted that, after the full-box ex-warehouse system receives the picking task, it may be determined whether the ex-warehouse quantity is greater than zero. If the ex-warehouse quantity is not more than zero, the picking task is wrong, and the execution is stopped or an error message is replied to the picking system; if the number of ex-warehouse is larger than zero, the execution can be continued. After the full-box delivery system receives the picking task, the full-container quantity 20 corresponding to the article identifier needs to be acquired according to the article identifier, and then the full-box delivery system can judge whether the delivery quantity is greater than the full-container quantity 20. If the delivery quantity is not more than 20, the delivery quantity of the goods to be picked cannot be delivered from the full containers, and the full-box delivery system can directly return the delivery quantity to the picking system as the picking quantity of the non-full containers; if the warehouse-out quantity is greater than 20, the warehouse-out quantity of the goods to be picked is represented as that the full containers can be unloaded, namely the goods to be picked need to be unloaded from the full containers, and the full-box warehouse-out system can continue to execute the following process. In the embodiment of the invention, the warehouse-out number 110 is greater than the full container number 20, and the goods to be picked need to be fully loaded and unloaded. After the full-box delivery system determines that the goods to be picked need to be delivered from the full containers, N can be calculated according to the delivery quantity and the full containers, in the embodiment of the present invention, an integer number is 5 after the integer number is divided by 20 by 110, and N is 5, which indicates that 5 goods to be picked need to be delivered from the full containers. And after the full-box ex-warehouse system determines that the N is 5, the full-box ex-warehouse interface can be called, and an ex-warehouse request is sent to the vertical warehouse management system.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the warehouse-out request may be expressed as good, which is { orderNum, goodsNo, qualification 5, max, status2 }. orderNum represents the picking task identifier and the request identifier, goodsO represents the item identifier, quality 5 represents the warehouse-out quantity corresponding to the current request, max represents the full container quantity, and status2 represents the warehouse-out state of the full containers to be picked in the full-box warehouse-out system.

When the full-box ex-warehouse system only needs to request one container from the vertical warehouse management system, namely only needs to send one ex-warehouse request, the orderNum can be only the identification of the picking task. When the full-box ex-warehouse system needs to request a plurality of containers from the vertical warehouse management system, namely a plurality of ex-warehouse requests need to be sent, the orderNum also needs to represent a request identifier so as to distinguish the plurality of ex-warehouse requests through the orderNum, namely when the full-box ex-warehouse system needs to send the plurality of ex-warehouse requests, the orderNum of each ex-warehouse request are different from each other, and specific values can be set according to requirements.

quality 5 indicates the number of dequeues corresponding to the current request. The number of items to be picked awaiting shipment is reduced by the number of full containers since a full bin shipment system will be considered to acquire a container with a capacity of the number of full containers for each shipment request sent by the full bin shipment system, so the value of quality 5 in the next shipment request is the difference between the number of shipments in the picking order and the product of the number of full containers times the number of sent shipment requests. The qualification 5 includes the number of shipments for the picking task when the full bin shipping system only needs to request a container from the vertical warehouse management system, i.e., only needs to send a shipping request. The qualitys 5 and nax in the outbound request may be used for the vertical warehouse management system to select the appropriate container for the outbound request.

status2 ∈ {0, 1, 2}, which indicates the status of items to be picked in a full bin shipping system. Wherein 0 represents an initial state, 1 represents a full container warehouse-out in-progress state, and 2 represents a full container warehouse-out completion state.

S402: and the full-box ex-warehouse system sends a first ex-warehouse request to the vertical warehouse management system.

The delivery request is used for requesting the container of the full container to be picked from the vertical warehouse management system. In the embodiment of the present invention, an example in which one outbound request requests one container is described. Since the full-box ex-warehouse system determines that N is 5, 5 ex-warehouse requests need to be sent to the vertical warehouse management system. In this step, if the first warehouse-out request is sent by the full-box warehouse-out system, the qualification 5 of the warehouse-out request in this step is 110, and the value of status2 is 1.

S403: and the full-box ex-warehouse system sends a second ex-warehouse request to the vertical warehouse management system.

Wherein, the full-box ex-warehouse system determines that N is 5, so 5 ex-warehouse requests need to be sent to the vertical warehouse management system. In this step, if the second ex-warehouse request is sent by the full-box ex-warehouse system, the qualification 5 of the ex-warehouse request in this step is 110-20-90, and the status2 has a value of 1.

S404: and the full-box ex-warehouse system sends a third ex-warehouse request to the vertical warehouse management system.

Wherein, the full-box ex-warehouse system determines that N is 5, so 5 ex-warehouse requests need to be sent to the vertical warehouse management system. In this step, if the third ex-warehouse request is sent by the full-box ex-warehouse system, the qualification 5 of the ex-warehouse request in this step is 110-20 × 2-70, and the value of status2 is 1.

S405: and the full-box ex-warehouse system sends a fourth ex-warehouse request to the vertical warehouse management system.

Wherein, the full-box ex-warehouse system determines that N is 5, so 5 ex-warehouse requests need to be sent to the vertical warehouse management system. In this step, if the fourth ex-warehouse request is sent by the full-box ex-warehouse system, the qualification 5 of the ex-warehouse request in this step is 110-20 × 3-50, and the status2 has a value of 1.

S406: and the full-box ex-warehouse system sends a fifth ex-warehouse request to the vertical warehouse management system.

Wherein, the full-box ex-warehouse system determines that N is 5, so 5 ex-warehouse requests need to be sent to the vertical warehouse management system. In this step, if the fifth ex-warehouse request is sent by the full-box ex-warehouse system, the qualification 5 of the ex-warehouse request in this step is 110-20 × 4-30, and the status2 has a value of 1.

It should be noted that the process from step S402 to step S406 executed by the full-box ex-warehouse system may be executed in parallel, and is not related to whether the inventory standing management system returns response information. After the full-box ex-warehouse system sends out-warehouse requests through steps S402 to S406, the library establishment management system may determine, based on each out-warehouse request, a container corresponding to the out-warehouse request, and send container information of the corresponding container to the full-box ex-warehouse system through response information.

The format of the response information may be the same as the format of the return parameter in the embodiment shown in fig. 1, and the embodiment of the present invention takes the format of the response information as the format of the return parameter as an example, the format of the response information may be specifically denoted as fclQueryRet, where fclQueryRet ═ orderNum, loadUnit, goodsNo, qualification 2, status1 }. The orderNum is the same as the orderNum corresponding to the ex-warehouse request, the goodsNo is the same as the goodsNo corresponding to the ex-warehouse request, the loadUnit indicates that the vertical warehouse management system determines the identifier of the container corresponding to the ex-warehouse request, the quality 2 indicates that the vertical warehouse management system determines the capacity of the container corresponding to the ex-warehouse request, and the status1 indicates the ex-warehouse state.

S407: and the full-box ex-warehouse system receives the first response information sent by the vertical warehouse management system.

The first response information is response information corresponding to the first ex-warehouse request and comprises container information of a container determined by the vertical warehouse management system according to the first ex-warehouse request. In the first response message of this step, orderNum is the same as orderNum of the first ex-warehouse request, the loadUnit determines the identifier of the container corresponding to the first ex-warehouse request for the vertical warehouse management system, and the qualification 2 determines the capacity of the container corresponding to the first ex-warehouse request for the vertical warehouse management system.

After receiving the response information sent by the vertical warehouse management system, the full-box warehouse-out system can judge which warehouse-out request corresponds to the response information according to the orderNum in the response information. The full-box ex-warehouse system can also set a mark field for each sent ex-warehouse request so as to judge which ex-warehouse requests receive corresponding response information. If the response information corresponding to the request is not received, setting the mark field to be a first value; when response information corresponding to the request is received, the flag field is set to a second value. The full-box ex-warehouse system can judge which ex-warehouse requests receive corresponding response information by counting the values of the marked fields.

After the full-box ex-warehouse system receives the response information each time, the following processes are executed: the full bin warehouse out system may first determine whether status1 is 0. If the number is 0, the warehouse-out is indicated; if the number is 1, the ex-warehouse is not allowed, and the ex-warehouse request needs to be sent again at the moment. If status1 is 0, the full-box warehouse-out system needs to determine whether the response message is the last received response message in the response messages corresponding to the warehouse-out request included in the picking task. And if the response information is not the last received response information in the response information of the ex-warehouse request corresponding to the picking task, judging whether the ex-warehouse quantity is larger than or equal to the container capacity and larger than or equal to the full container quantity, if so, replying a confirmation message of the inventory establishment management system, and if not, replying a cancellation message of the inventory establishment management system. If the response information is the last received response information in the response information of the ex-warehouse request corresponding to the picking task, judging whether the sum of the containers of each container is greater than the ex-warehouse quantity, if so, replying a cancellation message of the inventory management system, and if not, replying a confirmation message of the inventory management system. The acknowledgement message indicates that the container included in the response message is determined to be used, and the cancel message indicates that the container included in the response message is not used.

The embodiment of the present invention will be described by taking an example in which the capacity of the container in the response message is 20 and status1 is 0. Then the step is received as the first response message, and status1 is 0, 100 ≧ 20, which satisfies the number of ex-warehouse ≧ container capacity ≧ full container number, then reply to the liberal management system acknowledgement message.

S408: and the full-box ex-warehouse system receives second response information sent by the vertical warehouse management system.

The second response information is response information corresponding to the second ex-warehouse request and comprises container information of a container determined by the vertical warehouse management system according to the second ex-warehouse request. In the second response message of this step, orderNum is the same as orderNum of the second ex-warehouse request, the loadUnit determines the identifier of the container corresponding to the second ex-warehouse request for the vertical warehouse management system, and the qualification 2 determines the capacity of the container corresponding to the second ex-warehouse request for the vertical warehouse management system.

The embodiment of the present invention will be described by taking an example in which the capacity of the container in the response message is 20 and status1 is 0. Then the step receives the second response message, and status1 is 0, 100 ≧ 20, which satisfies the number of ex-warehouse ≧ container capacity ≧ full container number, then reply to the library management system acknowledgement message.

S409: and the full-box ex-warehouse system receives third response information sent by the vertical warehouse management system.

And the third response information is response information corresponding to the third ex-warehouse request and comprises container information of the container determined by the vertical warehouse management system according to the third ex-warehouse request. In the third response message in this step, orderNum is the same as orderNum of the third ex-warehouse request, the loadUnit determines the identifier of the container corresponding to the third ex-warehouse request for the vertical warehouse management system, and the qualification 2 determines the capacity of the container corresponding to the third ex-warehouse request for the vertical warehouse management system.

The embodiment of the present invention will be described by taking an example in which the capacity of the container in the response message is 20 and status1 is 0. Then the third response message is received in this step, status1 is 0, 100 ≧ 20 satisfies the ex-warehouse quantity ≧ container capacity ≧ full container quantity, and the librarian management system acknowledges the message.

S410: and the full-box ex-warehouse system receives fourth response information sent by the vertical warehouse management system.

And the fourth response information is response information corresponding to the fourth ex-warehouse request and comprises container information of a container determined by the vertical warehouse management system according to the fourth ex-warehouse request. In the fourth response message in this step, orderNum is the same as orderNum of the fourth ex-warehouse request, the loadUnit determines the identifier of the container corresponding to the fourth ex-warehouse request for the vertical warehouse management system, and the qualification 2 determines the capacity of the container corresponding to the fourth ex-warehouse request for the vertical warehouse management system.

The embodiment of the present invention will be described by taking an example in which the capacity of the container in the response message is 20 and status1 is 0. Then the fourth response message is received in this step, status1 is 0, 100 ≧ 20 satisfies the ex-warehouse quantity ≧ container capacity ≧ full container quantity, and the librarian management system acknowledges the message.

S411: and the full-box ex-warehouse system receives fifth response information sent by the vertical warehouse management system.

And the fifth response information is response information corresponding to the fifth ex-warehouse request and comprises container information of the container determined by the standing management system according to the fifth ex-warehouse request. In the fifth response message in this step, orderNum is the same as orderNum of the fifth ex-warehouse request, the loadUnit determines the identifier of the container corresponding to the fifth ex-warehouse request for the vertical warehouse management system, and the qualification 2 determines the capacity of the container corresponding to the fifth ex-warehouse request for the vertical warehouse management system.

The embodiment of the present invention will be described by taking an example in which the capacity of the container in the response message is 20 and status1 is 0. Then the step receives a fifth response message and status1 is 0, and it is necessary to determine if the sum of the capacities of the 5 containers is greater than the ex-warehouse number 110. And if the 5 multiplied by 20 is not larger than 110, replying the vertical library management system confirmation message.

It should be noted that, through the above process, the full-package delivery system determines that the goods to be picked are used for the full-package containers, and the full-package container information can be summarized according to the container information of the 5 containers. And the full-box delivery system can determine the picking number of the non-full containers to be picked according to the sum of the delivery number and the capacity of the 5 containers. In the implementation of the invention, 110-5 × 20 is 10, the picking quantity of the goods to be picked which are not full containers is 10. Step S412 is further executed, and the value of status2 is set to 2.

S412: the full-box delivery system sends the full-container information and the picking quantity of the non-full-container to be picked to the picking system.

The container full information may be specifically expressed as fclQueryRet, { orderNum, loadUnit4, goodsNo, qualification 4 }.

The pick-up quantity may be specifically expressed as fclrimaindo ═ orderNum, goodsNo, qualityremain }.

It should be noted that, when the task to be picked includes multiple items to be picked, the steps S402 to S412 may be performed for each item to be picked, so as to achieve the full container delivery.

In the embodiment of the invention, the information of the full containers and the picking quantity of the non-full containers of goods to be picked can be sent to the picking system at one time, so that the interaction between the picking system and the full-box delivery system is reduced, the message loss probability during the interaction can be further reduced, the data transmission error rate is reduced, and the reduction of the delivery efficiency of orders is avoided.

In order to solve the problems in the prior art, an embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus 500 for delivering an article out of a warehouse, as shown in fig. 5, the apparatus 500 includes:

the receiving unit 501 is configured to receive a picking task issued by a picking system, where the picking task includes an item identifier of an item to be picked and the quantity of the item to be picked in the warehouse;

a determining unit 502, configured to determine, based on the ex-warehouse quantity and a full container quantity corresponding to the item identifier, N containers full of the items to be picked when they are out of the warehouse, where N is an integer greater than zero, and the full container quantity represents the quantity of the items to be ex-warehouse in the containers when the items to be ex-warehouse are full of the containers;

a sending unit 503, configured to send a full first delivery request to the vertical warehouse management system, where the first delivery request is used to request the vertical warehouse management system to determine that the goods to be picked are used for delivering N containers;

the receiving unit 501 is further configured to receive first response information sent by the vertical warehouse management system, where the first response information includes identifiers of the N containers used for the articles to be delivered from the warehouse and capacities of the N containers;

the sending unit 503 is further configured to send the full container information to the picking system, where the full container information includes the identifiers of the N containers and the capacities of the N containers, so that the picking system determines the delivery manner of the items to be delivered according to the identifiers of the N containers and the capacities of the N containers.

It should be understood that the manner of implementing the embodiment of the present invention is the same as the manner of implementing the embodiment shown in fig. 2, and the description thereof is omitted.

In an implementation manner of the embodiment of the present invention, the determining unit 502 is further configured to determine the picking quantity of the non-full containers to be picked based on the sum of the ex-warehouse quantity and the capacities of the N containers;

the sending unit 503 is specifically configured to send the full container information and the picking quantity to the picking system, so that the picking system determines the delivery manner of the items to be delivered according to the full container information and the picking quantity.

In another implementation manner of the embodiment of the present invention, the determining unit 502 is specifically configured to:

determining the remaining quantity obtained by subtracting the sum of the capacities of the N containers from the ex-warehouse quantity;

if the remaining quantity is less than the full container quantity, determining the remaining quantity as the picking quantity of the non-full containers of the goods to be picked;

if the residual quantity is larger than or equal to the full container quantity, determining M containers required by the residual quantity of the goods to be picked for delivery from the warehouse based on the residual quantity and the full container quantity, wherein M is an integer larger than zero;

sending a second ex-warehouse request for requesting the M containers to the vertical warehouse management system;

receiving second response information sent by the vertical library management system, wherein the second response information comprises the identifications and the capacities of the M containers;

determining a picking number for the non-full container shipment of the item to be picked based on the sum of the remaining number and the capacity of the M containers;

the full container information further includes the identifications of the M containers and their capacities.

In another implementation manner of the embodiment of the present invention, the method further includes:

the judging unit is used for judging whether the sum of the capacities of the N containers is larger than the ex-warehouse quantity or not;

the determining unit is further configured to determine, if not, the identifiers of the N containers and the capacities thereof as the full container information; if yes, determining one container in the N containers as an unused container, and enabling the sum of the capacities of other containers except the unused container in the N containers to be smaller than or equal to the ex-warehouse quantity;

the sending unit is further configured to send a cancellation message to the library management system, where the cancellation message includes an identifier of the unused container;

the determining unit is further configured to use, as the full container information, identifiers of other containers of the N containers except the unused container and capacities thereof.

In another implementation manner of the embodiment of the present invention, the sending unit is further configured to send the N first ex-warehouse requests to a vertical warehouse management system;

the receiving unit is specifically configured to receive the N pieces of first response information sent to the library-based management system, where the N pieces of first response information correspond to the N pieces of first ex-warehouse requests one to one.

In the embodiment of the present invention, after receiving the identifier and the volume of the container returned by the inventory standing management system, the article delivery device 500 may send the container information to the pickup system. Thus, in the process of determining that the articles are delivered from the warehouse, especially when the articles in the manifest need to be delivered from the warehouse through a plurality of containers, the article delivery device 500 sends the information of the full containers to the goods picking system at one time, so that the interaction between the full container delivery system and the goods picking system is reduced, the probability of message loss during interaction is reduced, the error rate of data transmission is reduced, and further the efficiency of order delivery is prevented from being reduced.

The invention also provides an electronic device and a readable storage medium according to the embodiment of the invention.

The electronic device of the present invention includes: at least one processor; and a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the processor, and the instructions are executed by the at least one processor to cause the at least one processor to execute the method for delivering the item provided by the embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 6 illustrates an exemplary system architecture 600 of a method or apparatus for item ex-warehouse to which embodiments of the present invention may be applied.

As shown in fig. 6, the system architecture 600 may include

terminal devices

601, 602, 603, a network 604, and a server 605. The network 604 serves to provide a medium for communication links between the

terminal devices

601, 602, 603 and the server 605. Network 604 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

601, 602, 603 to interact with the server 605 via the network 604 to receive or send messages or the like. The

terminal devices

601, 602, 603 may have installed thereon various communication client applications, such as shopping applications, web browser applications, search applications, instant messaging tools, mailbox clients, social platform software, etc. (by way of example only).

The

terminal devices

601, 602, 603 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 605 may be a server providing various services, such as a background management server (for example only) providing support for shopping websites browsed by users using the

terminal devices

601, 602, 603. 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, product information — just an example) to the terminal device.

It should be noted that the method for delivering the item provided by the embodiment of the present invention is generally executed by the server 605, and accordingly, the apparatus for delivering the item is generally disposed in the server 605.

It should be understood that the number of terminal devices, networks, and servers in fig. 6 is merely illustrative. There may be any number of terminal devices, networks, and servers, as desired for implementation.

Referring now to FIG. 7, a block diagram of a computer system 700 suitable for use in implementing embodiments of the present invention is shown. The computer system illustrated in FIG. 7 is only an example and should not impose any limitations on the scope of use or functionality of embodiments of the invention.

As shown in fig. 7, the computer system 700 includes a Central Processing Unit (CPU)701, which can perform various appropriate actions and processes in accordance with a program stored in a Read Only Memory (ROM)702 or a program loaded from a storage section 708 into a Random Access Memory (RAM) 703. In the RAM 703, various programs and data necessary for the operation of the system 700 are also stored. The CPU 701, the ROM 702, and the RAM 703 are connected to each other via a bus 704. An input/output (I/O) interface 705 is also connected to bus 704.

The following components are connected to the I/O interface 705: an input portion 706 including a keyboard, a mouse, and the like; an output section 707 including a display such as a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT), a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), and the like, and a speaker; a storage section 708 including a hard disk and the like; and a communication section 709 including a network interface card such as a LAN card, a modem, or the like. The communication section 709 performs communication processing via a network such as the internet. A drive 710 is also connected to the I/O interface 705 as needed. A removable medium 711 such as a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, a semiconductor memory, or the like is mounted on the drive 710 as necessary, so that a computer program read out therefrom is mounted into the storage section 708 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 can be downloaded and installed from a network through the communication section 709, and/or installed from the removable medium 711. The computer program performs the above-described functions defined in the system of the present invention when executed by the Central Processing Unit (CPU) 701.

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 unit, 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 units described in the embodiments of the present invention may be implemented by software or hardware. The described units may also be provided in a processor, and may be described as: a processor includes a receiving unit, a determining unit, and a transmitting unit. Where the names of these elements do not in some cases constitute a limitation of the element itself, for example, a receiving element may also be described as "an element of the function of the receiving element".

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 perform the method for exporting items provided by the present invention.

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.

Claims

1. A method of retrieving an item, comprising:

receiving a picking task issued by a picking system, wherein the picking task comprises an item identifier of an item to be picked and the delivery quantity of the item to be picked;

determining N containers which are full of the goods to be picked when the goods to be picked are delivered from the warehouse based on the delivery quantity and the quantity of the full containers corresponding to the goods identification, wherein N is an integer larger than zero, and the quantity of the full containers represents the quantity of the goods to be delivered from the warehouse when the containers are full of the goods to be delivered from the warehouse;

sending a full first delivery request to a vertical warehouse management system, wherein the first delivery request is used for requesting the vertical warehouse management system to determine the goods to be picked for delivering N containers;

receiving first response information sent by the vertical warehouse management system, wherein the first response information comprises the identifiers of the N containers for the goods to be delivered out of the warehouse and the capacities of the N containers;

and sending the full container information to the picking system, wherein the full container information comprises the identifications of the N containers and the capacities of the N containers, so that the picking system determines the delivery mode of the articles to be delivered according to the identifications of the N containers and the capacities of the N containers.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, prior to said sending full container information to said picking system:

determining a picking number for the non-full containers of items to be picked based on the ex-warehouse number and the sum of the capacities of the N containers;

said sending said full container information to said picking system comprises:

and sending the full container information and the picking quantity to the picking system so that the picking system determines the delivery mode of the items to be delivered according to the full container information and the picking quantity.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said determining a pick count for said non-full receptacle for items to be picked based on a sum of said ex-warehouse count and said N receptacle capacity comprises:

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising, prior to said sending the full container information to the picking system:

judging whether the sum of the capacities of the N containers is larger than the ex-warehouse quantity;

if not, determining the identifiers of the N containers and the capacities of the N containers as the full container information;

if yes, determining one container in the N containers as an unused container, and enabling the sum of the capacities of other containers except the unused container in the N containers to be smaller than or equal to the ex-warehouse quantity;

sending a cancellation message to the librarian management system, the cancellation message including an identification of the unused container;

and taking the identification of the other containers except the unused container in the N containers and the capacity of the containers as the full container information.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein sending a first ex-warehouse request to a library management system comprises:

sending the N first ex-warehouse requests to a vertical warehouse management system;

the receiving the first response information sent to the vertical library management system includes:

and receiving the N pieces of first response information sent to the vertical warehouse management system, wherein the N pieces of first response information are respectively in one-to-one correspondence with the N pieces of first ex-warehouse requests.

6. An apparatus for removing items from a warehouse, comprising:

the receiving unit is used for receiving a picking task issued by a picking system, and the picking task comprises an item identifier of an item to be picked and the delivery quantity of the item to be picked;

the determining unit is used for determining N containers which are full of the goods to be picked when the goods to be picked are delivered from the warehouse based on the delivery quantity and the quantity of the full containers corresponding to the goods identification, wherein N is an integer larger than zero, and the quantity of the full containers represents the quantity of the goods to be delivered from the warehouse when the containers are full of the goods to be delivered from the warehouse;

a sending unit, configured to send a full first delivery request to a vertical warehouse management system, where the first delivery request is used to request the vertical warehouse management system to determine that the goods to be picked are used for delivering N containers;

the receiving unit is further configured to receive first response information sent by the vertical warehouse management system, where the first response information includes identifiers of the N containers used for the articles to be delivered from the warehouse and capacities of the N containers;

the sending unit is further configured to send the full-package container information to the picking system, where the full-package container information includes the identifiers of the N containers and the capacities of the N containers, so that the picking system determines the delivery manner of the items to be delivered according to the identifiers of the N containers and the capacities of the N containers.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the determining unit is further configured to determine a picking number for the non-full container of items to be picked based on the ex-warehouse number and a sum of the capacities of the N containers;

the sending unit is specifically configured to send the full-package container information and the picking number to the picking system, so that the picking system determines the delivery mode of the items to be delivered according to the full-package container information and the picking number.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the determining unit is specifically configured to:

9. An electronic device, comprising:

one or more processors;

a storage device for storing one or more programs,

when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to implement the method of any one of claims 1-5.

10. A computer-readable medium, on which a computer program is stored, which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the method according to any one of claims 1-5.