CN113762858A

CN113762858A - Inventory management method and device

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Publication number: CN113762858A
Application number: CN202011331700.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 罗金
Original assignee: Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co Ltd; Beijing Wodong Tianjun Information Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Jingdong Century Trading Co Ltd; Beijing Wodong Tianjun Information Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-11-24
Filing date: 2020-11-24
Publication date: 2021-12-07

Abstract

The invention discloses a warehouse management method and device, and relates to the technical field of warehouse logistics. One embodiment of the method comprises: receiving an ex-warehouse task, wherein the ex-warehouse task indicates the article identification to be ex-warehouse and the ex-warehouse quantity; determining one or more target warehousing information matched with the article identification to be delivered from the warehousing information, wherein the warehousing information indicates the warehousing time of the corresponding article; sorting one or more target warehousing information according to the warehousing time; according to the sorting result and the ex-warehouse quantity, taking the article corresponding to the target warehousing information of which the difference value between the current time and the warehousing time meets the preset condition as the article corresponding to the ex-warehouse task; and executing the ex-warehouse task according to the determined articles. The embodiment realizes the prior delivery of the articles which are delivered in the warehouse first, reduces the probability of article detention, improves the inventory management effect, and can timely select the articles out of the warehouse according to the warehousing time, particularly for some articles with short shelf life, thereby avoiding the waste of resources.

Description

Inventory management method and device

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of warehouse logistics, in particular to a warehouse management method and device.

Background

With the rapid development of economy and the increasing number of consumer groups, suppliers need to produce and store articles in large quantities, and sellers need to prepare sufficient quantities of articles to meet the increasing sales. Inventory management is becoming increasingly important in the face of increasing inventory pressures for both suppliers and sellers, as more and more items are being placed on the market.

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

currently, after receiving a warehouse-out task, a corresponding number of items are picked from a warehouse according to the number of items required by the warehouse-out task to execute the warehouse-out task. This manner of picking items and leaving the warehouse based solely on quantity may result in certain items in the warehouse being stranded due to long-term unsoiled, thereby not facilitating inventory management.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of this, embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for inventory management, which are capable of determining, after receiving a warehouse-out task, target warehousing information matched with an identifier of an article to be warehoused, which is indicated in the warehouse-out task, from the warehousing information according to the identifier, where the warehousing information includes warehousing time of the corresponding article. And then, according to the warehousing time, the target warehousing information is sequenced, and then the ex-warehouse task is executed on the articles corresponding to the target warehousing information of which the difference value between the current time and the warehousing time meets the preset condition according to the sequencing result and the ex-warehouse quantity indicated in the ex-warehouse task, so that the prior ex-warehouse of the articles warehoused firstly is realized, the probability of article retention in a warehouse is reduced, the inventory management effect is improved, particularly for some articles with short shelf lives, the articles can be timely sorted out of the warehouse according to the warehousing time, and the waste of resources is avoided.

To achieve the above object, according to an aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an inventory management method.

The inventory management method of the embodiment of the invention comprises the following steps:

receiving an ex-warehouse task, wherein the ex-warehouse task indicates the article identification to be ex-warehouse and the ex-warehouse quantity;

determining one or more target warehousing information matched with the article identification to be delivered from the warehousing information, wherein the warehousing information indicates the warehousing time of the corresponding article;

sorting one or more target warehousing information according to the warehousing time;

according to the sorting result and the ex-warehouse quantity, taking the article corresponding to the target warehousing information of which the difference value between the current time and the warehousing time meets the preset condition as the article corresponding to the ex-warehouse task;

and executing the ex-warehouse task according to the determined articles.

Alternatively,

the warehousing information also indicates the batch information of the articles, and the articles with the same batch information have the same warehousing time;

determining one or more first batch information corresponding to the target warehousing information;

sorting the one or more first batch information according to the warehousing time respectively indicated by the one or more first batch information;

and according to the sequencing result, selecting one or more second batches of information of which the quantity meets the ex-warehouse quantity from the first batches of information, and taking the articles corresponding to the second batches of information as the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task.

Alternatively,

and when the quantity of the articles corresponding to the first batch information with the longest warehousing time indicated by the sequencing result is not less than the ex-warehousing quantity, taking the first batch information with the longest warehousing time as second batch information.

Alternatively,

when the quantity of the articles corresponding to the first batch information with the longest warehousing time is less than the ex-warehousing quantity,

judging whether the sum of available stocks of the first batch information is less than the ex-warehouse quantity;

and when the available inventory sum is not less than the ex-warehouse quantity, selecting second batch information of which the available inventory sum is not less than the ex-warehouse quantity from the plurality of first inventory batches according to the sorting result.

Alternatively,

according to the sorting result, taking the first batch information with the longest warehousing time as the current batch information;

circularly executing the following steps until all articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task are determined:

taking the articles corresponding to the current batch information as the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task, and determining the difference value between the ex-warehouse quantity and the article quantity corresponding to the current batch information;

and according to the sorting result, taking the next first batch information of the current batch information as the current batch information, and according to the difference value, determining the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task from the articles corresponding to the current batch information.

Alternatively,

determining the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task from the articles corresponding to the current batch information according to the difference, wherein the step comprises the following steps:

when the quantity of the articles corresponding to the current batch information is not larger than the difference value, taking all the articles corresponding to the current batch information as the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task;

and when the quantity of the articles corresponding to the current batch information is larger than the difference value, selecting the articles with the quantity equal to the difference value from the articles corresponding to the current batch information as the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task.

Alternatively,

the method comprises the following steps of taking the article corresponding to the target warehousing information with the difference value between the current time and the warehousing time meeting the preset condition as the article corresponding to the ex-warehouse task, wherein the method comprises the following steps:

and pre-occupying the articles corresponding to the target warehousing information so that the articles are not selected by warehousing tasks except the ex-warehouse task.

Alternatively,

the method further comprises the following steps:

determining returned goods, and determining historical batch information of the returned goods when the returned goods are delivered out of the warehouse;

and taking the returned articles as articles corresponding to the historical batch information, and increasing the number of the articles corresponding to the historical batch information according to the number of the returned articles.

Alternatively,

when there are a plurality of the historical lot information of the returned item,

sorting the plurality of historical batch information according to the warehousing time indicated by the historical batch information;

and sequentially determining returned articles as articles corresponding to the historical batch information according to the sequencing results of the plurality of historical batch information and the ex-warehouse quantity of each historical batch information.

Alternatively,

the warehousing information also indicates the source of the corresponding article;

receiving a return instruction, wherein the return instruction comprises third batch information of the article to be returned;

and executing the ex-warehouse task aiming at the articles corresponding to the third batch of information so as to return the articles corresponding to the third batch of information to the corresponding article source.

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

An inventory management device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: the system comprises a task receiving module, a target warehousing information determining module, a sequencing module, an article determining module and a task executing module; wherein:

the task receiving module is used for receiving the ex-warehouse tasks, and the ex-warehouse tasks indicate the article identifiers to be ex-warehouse and the ex-warehouse quantity;

the information determining module is used for determining one or more target warehousing information matched with the article identification to be delivered from the warehouse, which is received by the task receiving module, from the warehousing information, wherein the warehousing information indicates the warehousing time of the corresponding article;

the sorting module is used for sorting one or more target warehousing information according to the warehousing time determined by the information determining module;

the article determining module is used for taking the article corresponding to the target warehousing information of which the difference value between the current time and the warehousing time meets the preset condition as the article corresponding to the ex-warehouse task according to the sorting result obtained by the sorting module and the ex-warehouse quantity received by the task receiving module;

and the task execution module is used for executing the ex-warehouse task according to the articles determined by the article determination module.

Alternatively,

the information determining module is further used for determining one or more first batch information corresponding to the target warehousing information;

the sorting module is further used for sorting the one or more first batch information according to the warehousing time respectively indicated by the one or more first batch information;

the article determining module is further used for selecting one or more second batches of information of which the quantity meets the ex-warehouse quantity from the first batches of information according to the sorting result, and taking the articles corresponding to the second batches of information as the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task.

Alternatively,

and when the quantity of the articles corresponding to the first batch of information with the longest warehousing time indicated by the sequencing result is not less than the ex-warehousing quantity, the information determining module is also used for taking the first batch of information with the longest warehousing time as second batch of information.

Alternatively,

when the quantity of the articles corresponding to the first batch of information with the longest warehousing time is less than the ex-warehouse quantity, the information determining module is further configured to:

Alternatively,

the information determination module is further to: according to the sorting result, taking the first batch information with the longest warehousing time as the current batch information;

the item determination module is further to:

Alternatively,

the item determination module is further to:

Alternatively,

the item determination module is further to:

Alternatively,

the item determination module is further to:

Alternatively,

when there are a plurality of historical batch information of returned items, the item determination module is further configured to:

Alternatively,

the task execution module is further configured to: receiving a return instruction, wherein the return instruction comprises third batch information of the article to be returned; and executing the ex-warehouse task aiming at the articles corresponding to the third batch of information so as to return the articles corresponding to the third batch of information to the corresponding article sources.

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

An inventory management electronic device according to 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 one or more processors, the one or more processors realize the inventory management method of the embodiment of the invention.

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

A computer-readable storage medium of an embodiment of the present invention has a computer program stored thereon, and when the program is executed by a processor, an inventory management method of an embodiment of the present invention is implemented.

One embodiment of the above invention has the following advantages or benefits: after the ex-warehouse task is received, target warehousing information matched with the identification can be determined from the warehousing information according to the identification of the article to be ex-warehouse indicated in the ex-warehouse task, wherein the warehousing information comprises warehousing time of the corresponding article. And then, according to the warehousing time, the target warehousing information is sequenced, and then the ex-warehouse task is executed on the articles corresponding to the target warehousing information of which the difference value between the current time and the warehousing time meets the preset condition according to the sequencing result and the ex-warehouse quantity indicated in the ex-warehouse task, so that the prior ex-warehouse of the articles warehoused firstly is realized, the probability of article retention in a warehouse is reduced, the inventory management effect is improved, particularly for some articles with short shelf lives, the articles can be timely sorted out of the warehouse according to the warehousing time, and the waste of resources is avoided.

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

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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 the main steps of an inventory management method according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the main steps of another inventory management method according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the main steps of yet another inventory management method according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating the main steps of a method for performing a ex-warehouse task for a plurality of batch information according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the main steps of a method of inventory management for returned items according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of the main steps of a method of inventory management for returned items according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of the main modules of an inventory management device according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 8 is an exemplary system architecture diagram in which embodiments of the present invention may be employed;

fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a computer system suitable for implementing a terminal device or a server according to an embodiment 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 of the present invention and the technical features of the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of main steps of an inventory management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 1, an inventory management method according to an embodiment of the present invention mainly includes the following steps:

step S101: receiving an ex-warehouse task, wherein the ex-warehouse task indicates the article identification to be ex-warehouse and the ex-warehouse quantity;

step S102: determining one or more target warehousing information matched with the article identification to be delivered from the warehousing information, wherein the warehousing information indicates the warehousing time of the corresponding article;

step S103: sorting one or more target warehousing information according to the warehousing time;

step S104: according to the sorting result and the ex-warehouse quantity, taking the article corresponding to the target warehousing information of which the difference value between the current time and the warehousing time meets the preset condition as the article corresponding to the ex-warehouse task;

step S105: and executing the ex-warehouse task according to the determined articles.

In the warehouse, the articles may be stored in shelves or containers, and the same article may not be stored in the same place of the warehouse, and if the articles indicated by the delivery task are sorted according to the delivery quantity, some articles stored in the lowest layer of the shelves or containers, or articles stored in the corners of the warehouse may not be sorted in the continuous delivery and storage operation, and thus stay in the warehouse, especially for some articles with short shelf life, such as fresh milk, fresh food, fruits and vegetables, and the like, and the stay in the warehouse is easily out of date, resulting in waste of resources. In the embodiment of the invention, after the ex-warehouse task is received, the articles indicated by the ex-warehouse task are selected according to the warehousing time, the articles with the difference value between the current time and the warehousing time meeting the preset condition are taken as the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task, and then the articles meeting the ex-warehouse quantity are selected from the articles to be ex-warehouse, so that the prior ex-warehouse of the articles which are firstly put in the warehouse is realized, and the problem that the articles are not selected and ex-warehouse all the time, so that the articles are retained in the warehouse, is solved to a great extent. Particularly, when the inventory management is carried out on the milk, the fresh fruits, the vegetables and other articles with short quality guarantee period, the beneficial effect of the scheme is more obvious.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the identifier of the article to be delivered is an identifier capable of specifically determining a certain article, and may be a sku (stock keeping unit) of the article, or an internal number of the article, and the present scheme is not specifically limited.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the warehousing information further indicates batch information of the articles, the batch information may be generated when the articles are warehoused, and the articles with the same batch information have the same warehousing time and the same article identification. For example, when 10 "green, 8+256G millet 10" mobile phones and 5 "silver, 6+128G millet 10" mobile phones are purchased from merchant a, and there are 4 "green, 8+256G millet 10" mobile phones and 3 "silver, 6+128G millet 10" mobile phones in storage in 9, 16 days of 2020, and the remaining 6 "green, 8+256G millet 10" mobile phones and 2 "silver, 6+128G millet 10" mobile phones in storage in 18 days of 2020, 9, 18 days of 2020, four batches of information are generated in total, each of which is: "Green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200916", "silver-6 + 128G-millet 10-20200916", "green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200918" and "silver-6 + 128G-millet 10-20200918".

In the embodiment of the present invention, the batch information may further include a supplier code and/or a supplier name of the corresponding item, so as to deal with the problem of "one item with multiple suppliers". The term "one product and multiple suppliers" means that multiple suppliers supply the same sku at the same time, and at this time, the conventional mode of managing inventory only by sku cannot distinguish which supplier supplies a sku, which further causes difficulties in subsequent links such as statistics, settlement and analysis. After the supplier code and/or the supplier name of the article are/is added into the batch information, an accurate 'supplier-sku' dimension data can be provided for a system which must use the supplier information for subsequent statistics, settlement, analysis and the like, meanwhile, the accurate data can also support an evaluation and analysis system of the supplier dimension, and basic data of long-library-age sku management and evaluation of the supplier dimension is also provided for an acquisition and sales person.

Because the scheme has more remarkable beneficial effects on the objects with shorter quality guarantee period, such as milk, fresh fruits, vegetables and the like, an example is taken again for illustration: for fresh milk, the shelf life is usually 3 to 5 days, a warehouse has a new fresh milk warehouse every day, 10 bottles of fresh milk are purchased from a dairy plant C, the fresh milk is warehoused in two batches, 5 bottles are respectively warehoused in 20 days of 9 and 22 days of 9 and 2020, 5 bottles are respectively warehoused in 22 days of 9 and 2020, 7 bottles of fresh milk are purchased from a dairy plant D, and the fresh milk is warehoused in 21 days of 9 and 2020, three batches of information are generated in total, wherein the three batches of information are respectively: "fresh milk-Dairy plant C-20200920", "fresh milk-Dairy plant D-20200921" and "fresh milk-Dairy plant C-20200922".

In the embodiment of the present invention, the batch information may further include one or more of information of a warehouse, a distribution center, an affiliated organization, an initial inventory, an available inventory, a pre-occupied inventory, an in-transit inventory, and the like of the corresponding item, so as to accurately record the information of the corresponding item of the batch, which is convenient for management.

In the embodiment of the invention, the batch information can be generated by warehousing the purchased articles, or by inventory warehousing when inventory is checked. If the batch information is generated by warehousing the purchased articles, the generation rule is as follows: acquiring purchase order information of sku dimension when purchasing and warehousing; and generating batch information according to the purchase order information. The purchase order refers to a purchase request order under a supplier providing sku, and the content of the purchase order may include: purchase order number, purchase sku, purchase time, purchase quantity, warehouse, distribution center, organization to which the order issuer belongs, supplier brevity code and other supplier information. If the batch information is generated by inventory filling and warehousing when inventory is checked, the generation rule is as follows: receiving the inventory data; if the sufficient data can find the corresponding purchase order according to the sku, finding the corresponding batch, and adding available inventory to the corresponding batch; and if the purchase order corresponding to the sku cannot be found by the sufficient data, the number of the default purchase order is 0, and a new batch is generated according to the purchase order rule.

In the embodiment of the present invention, taking an article corresponding to target warehousing information for which a difference between current time and warehousing time meets a preset condition as an article corresponding to an ex-warehousing task includes: and pre-occupying the articles corresponding to the target warehousing information so that the articles are not selected by warehousing tasks except the ex-warehouse task.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the pre-occupation may include the following specific steps: inquiring whether the pre-occupation information exists according to the ex-warehouse task; if the pre-occupation information exists, the pre-occupation operation is executed aiming at the ex-warehouse task, and the pre-occupation operation is not executed any more; if the pre-occupation information does not exist, pre-occupation information is set for the article corresponding to the target warehousing information, wherein the difference value between the current time and the warehousing time meets the preset condition: increasing ex-warehouse quantity on the original pre-occupied inventory to serve as a new pre-occupied inventory, and using the supplier codes on the batch information as the supplier codes of the pre-occupied articles; setting batch information: taking the service order number of the pre-occupation information as a service order number and taking the service type of the pre-occupation information as a service type; then, subtracting the quantity of the articles pre-occupied this time from the available inventory of the target warehousing information, and recording the pre-occupied information this time in a pre-occupied log, such as: current time, etc.; and finally, setting the pre-occupation state as a success state.

Since the warehousing information also indicates batch information of the articles, and the articles with the same batch information have the same warehousing time, another inventory management method is provided in the embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2, which mainly includes the following steps:

step S201: receiving an ex-warehouse task, wherein the ex-warehouse task indicates the article identification to be ex-warehouse and the ex-warehouse quantity;

step S202: determining one or more target warehousing information matched with the article identification to be delivered from the warehousing information, wherein the warehousing information indicates the warehousing time of the corresponding article;

step S203: determining one or more first batch information corresponding to the target warehousing information;

step S204: sorting the one or more first batch information according to the warehousing time respectively indicated by the one or more first batch information;

step S205: according to the sorting result, selecting one or more second batches of information of which the quantity meets the ex-warehouse quantity from the first batches of information, and taking the articles corresponding to the second batches of information as the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task;

step S206: and executing the ex-warehouse task according to the determined articles.

For example, the item to be delivered indicated by the delivery task is identified as: "green, 8+256G millet 10", the ex-warehouse quantity is 5, and the warehousing information includes four batch information, is respectively: "green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200916", "silver-6 + 128G-millet 10-20200916", "green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200918" and "silver-6 + 128G-millet 10-20200918", then the target warehousing information matched with the identification of the article to be delivered from the warehouse in the warehousing information is: "green-8 + 256G-millet 10", then determine two first batch information according to the target warehousing information, which are respectively: "Green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200916" and "Green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200918". And then sorting the two first batch information according to the warehousing time to obtain 'green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200916' and 'green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200918', wherein the 'green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200916' has 4 parts, and the 'green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200918' has 6 parts. And taking the article corresponding to the green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200918 meeting the ex-warehouse quantity as the article corresponding to the ex-warehouse task, and executing the ex-warehouse task. When the quantity of the articles corresponding to the first batch of information meets the ex-warehouse quantity, for example, the ex-warehouse quantity is 2, and the execution sequence of the ex-warehouse process is as follows: judging the quantity first, knowing that the quantity of the two first batches of information meets the ex-warehouse quantity, judging the warehousing time, knowing that the green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200916 is warehoused first, taking the second batch of information as the second batch of information, taking the corresponding article as the article corresponding to the ex-warehouse task, and executing the ex-warehouse task.

Another example is as follows: the goods to be delivered indicated by the delivery task are marked as follows: the number of the fresh milk discharged from the warehouse is 6 bottles, and three batches of information matched with the identification of the articles to be discharged from the warehouse are respectively as follows: "fresh milk-Dairy plant C-20200920", "fresh milk-Dairy plant C-20200922" and "fresh milk-Dairy plant D-20200921". And then sequencing the three first batch information according to the warehousing time to obtain: "fresh milk-dairy C-20200920", "fresh milk-dairy D-20200921" and "fresh milk-dairy C-20200922", wherein "fresh milk-dairy C-20200920" has 5 bottles, "fresh milk-dairy D-20200921" has 7 bottles, and "fresh milk-dairy C-20200922" has 5 bottles. The fresh milk corresponding to the fresh milk-dairy plant D-20200921 which meets the ex-warehouse quantity is taken as the article corresponding to the ex-warehouse task, and the ex-warehouse task is executed.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the execution sequence of the ex-warehouse process may also be: firstly, the warehousing time is judged, and then the number is judged, as shown in fig. 3, the method mainly comprises the following steps:

step S301: receiving an ex-warehouse task, wherein the ex-warehouse task indicates the article identification to be ex-warehouse and the ex-warehouse quantity;

step S302: determining one or more target warehousing information matched with the article identification to be delivered from the warehousing information, wherein the warehousing information indicates the warehousing time of the corresponding article;

step S303: determining one or more first batch information corresponding to the target warehousing information;

step S304: sorting the one or more first batch information according to the warehousing time respectively indicated by the one or more first batch information;

step S305: when the quantity of the articles corresponding to the first batch information with the longest warehousing time indicated by the sequencing result is not less than the ex-warehousing quantity, taking the first batch information with the longest warehousing time as second batch information;

step S306: when the quantity of the articles corresponding to the first batch information with the longest warehousing time is less than the ex-warehouse quantity, judging whether the sum of available inventory of the first batch information is less than the ex-warehouse quantity;

step S307: when the sum of the available stocks is not less than the ex-warehouse quantity, selecting second batch information of which the sum of the available stocks is not less than the ex-warehouse quantity from the plurality of first stock batches according to the sequencing result;

step S308: and taking the article corresponding to the second batch of information as an article corresponding to the ex-warehouse task, and executing the ex-warehouse task.

For example, the item to be delivered indicated by the delivery task is identified as: "green, 8+256G millet 10", the ex-warehouse quantity is 5, and the warehousing information includes four batch information, is respectively: "green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200916", "silver-6 + 128G-millet 10-20200916", "green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200918" and "silver-6 + 128G-millet 10-20200918", then the target warehousing information matched with the identification of the article to be delivered from the warehouse in the warehousing information is: "green-8 + 256G-millet 10", then determine two first batch information according to the target warehousing information, which are respectively: "Green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200916" and "Green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200918". And then sorting the two first batch information according to the warehousing time to obtain 'green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200916' and 'green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200918', wherein the 'green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200916' has 4 parts, and the 'green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200918' has 6 parts. Firstly, judging that the quantity of 'green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200916' with the earliest warehousing time is less than the ex-warehouse quantity, then judging whether the quantity of all first batch information corresponding to the target warehousing information of 'green-8 + 256G-millet 10', namely the sum of available inventory can meet the ex-warehouse quantity, judging that the sum of available inventory is 10 and can meet the ex-warehouse quantity of 5, and therefore, selecting 5 from two batches of 'green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200916' and 'green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200918' as articles corresponding to second batch information to execute the ex-warehouse task.

As another example, the article identifier to be delivered indicated by the delivery task is: the number of the fresh milk discharged from the warehouse is 6 bottles, and three batches of information matched with the identification of the articles to be discharged from the warehouse are respectively as follows: "fresh milk-Dairy plant C-20200920", "fresh milk-Dairy plant C-20200922" and "fresh milk-Dairy plant D-20200921". And then sequencing the three first batch information according to the warehousing time to obtain: "fresh milk-dairy C-20200920", "fresh milk-dairy D-20200921" and "fresh milk-dairy C-20200922", wherein "fresh milk-dairy C-20200920" has 5 bottles, "fresh milk-dairy D-20200921" has 7 bottles, and "fresh milk-dairy C-20200922" has 5 bottles. Firstly, judging that the quantity of the fresh milk-dairy plant C-20200920 with the earliest warehousing time is less than the ex-warehouse quantity, then judging whether the quantity of all first batch information corresponding to the target warehousing information of the fresh milk, namely the sum of available inventory can meet the ex-warehouse quantity, judging that the sum of available inventory is 17 bottles and can meet the ex-warehouse quantity of 6 bottles, and therefore, selecting 6 bottles from two batches of the fresh milk-dairy plant C-20200920 and the fresh milk-dairy plant D-20200921 as articles corresponding to the second batch information to execute the ex-warehouse task.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the available inventory refers to the quantity of the items corresponding to each first lot information in the warehouse, and the total available inventory refers to the total quantity of the available inventory of the one or more first lot information.

In the embodiment of the present invention, when the quantity of the articles corresponding to the first lot information with the longest warehousing time is less than the ex-warehouse quantity and the total available inventory of the plurality of first lot information is not less than the ex-warehouse quantity, it is described that the total available inventory of the articles corresponding to the target warehousing information matched with the article identifier to be ex-warehouse can satisfy the ex-warehouse quantity, and then the ex-warehouse task needs to be executed for the plurality of first lot information.

As shown in fig. 4, fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of main steps of a method for performing a warehouse-out task for a plurality of first batch information, and mainly includes the following steps:

step S401: sorting the plurality of first batch information according to the warehousing time, and taking the first batch information with the longest warehousing time as the current batch information according to a sorting result;

step S402: taking the article corresponding to the current batch information as the article corresponding to the ex-warehouse task;

step S403: judging whether the difference value between the ex-warehouse quantity and the quantity of the articles corresponding to the current batch information is larger than zero, if so, executing a step S404, and if not, executing a step S405;

step S404: taking the article corresponding to the current batch information as the article corresponding to the ex-warehouse task, taking the next first batch information of the current batch information as the current batch information, taking the difference value as the ex-warehouse quantity, and returning to execute the step S402;

step S405: selecting articles equal to the difference value from the articles corresponding to the current batch information as articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task;

step S406: and executing the ex-warehouse tasks aiming at the articles corresponding to all the ex-warehouse tasks.

In the embodiment of the invention, when the quantity of the articles corresponding to the current batch information is not more than the difference value, all the articles corresponding to the current batch information are taken as the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task; and when the quantity of the articles corresponding to the current batch information is larger than the difference value, selecting the articles with the quantity equal to the difference value from the articles corresponding to the current batch information as the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task. For example, the above mobile phone is determined to indicate that the quantity of "green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200916" with the earliest warehousing time is smaller than the ex-warehouse quantity, and the sum of the available inventory of all the first lot information corresponding to the target warehousing information of "green-8 + 256G-millet 10" can satisfy the ex-warehouse quantity of 5 parts, so that "green-8 + 256G-millet 10-20200916" with the earliest warehousing time can be used as the current lot information, then the quantity of the article corresponding to the current lot information is subtracted from the 5 parts of the ex-warehouse quantity to obtain a difference value of 1 part larger than 0, which indicates that the available inventory of the current lot information is not enough to satisfy the ex-warehouse quantity, then 4 mobile phones corresponding to the current lot information are used as the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task, and then the next first lot information of the current lot information, that is "green-8 + 256G-10-20200918", is used as the current lot information And (3) the difference value 6 is used as a new ex-warehouse quantity, then the ex-warehouse quantity 1 is used for subtracting the article quantity 6 corresponding to the current batch information, the obtained difference value is less than 0, the available inventory of the current batch information can meet the ex-warehouse quantity, then the articles with the same quantity as the difference value, namely 1, are selected from the articles corresponding to the current batch information as the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse tasks, and finally the ex-warehouse tasks are executed aiming at the articles corresponding to all the ex-warehouse tasks.

Further, as an example of the above fresh milk, it is determined that the number of "fresh milk-producing factories C-20200920" with the earliest warehousing time is smaller than the ex-warehouse number, and the sum of the available inventory of all the first lot information corresponding to the target warehousing information of "fresh milk" can satisfy the ex-warehouse number of 6 bottles, so that "fresh milk-producing factories C-20200920" with the earliest warehousing time can be used as the current lot information, then the ex-warehouse number of 6 bottles is used to subtract the number of 5 bottles corresponding to the current lot information to obtain a difference value of 1 bottle greater than 0, which indicates that the available inventory of the current lot information is not enough to satisfy the ex-warehouse number, then 5 bottles of fresh milk corresponding to the current lot information are used as the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task, and then the next first lot information of the current lot information, i.e., fresh milk-producing factories D-20200921, is used as the current lot information, and taking the difference value of 1 bottle as a new ex-warehouse quantity, then subtracting the quantity of articles corresponding to the current batch information from the quantity of articles corresponding to the current batch information of 7 bottles by using the quantity of ex-warehouse 1 bottle to obtain a negative difference value smaller than 0, and selecting the articles equal to the difference value, namely 1 bottle, from the articles corresponding to the current batch information as the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task, and finally executing the ex-warehouse task aiming at the articles corresponding to all the ex-warehouse tasks.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the ex-warehouse task may further indicate a delivery center id, after it is determined that the difference between the current time and the in-warehouse time satisfies the target warehousing information of the preset condition, it is further required to determine whether a delivery center where the article corresponding to the target warehousing information is located corresponds to the delivery center id indicated by the ex-warehouse task, if so, it is described that the warehouse where the article corresponding to the target warehousing information is located and the destination to be sent after ex-warehouse belong to the same preset delivery area, it is further determined whether the article corresponding to the target warehousing information is already pre-occupied by other warehousing tasks, and if not, it is described that the article corresponding to the target warehousing information can be pre-occupied by the ex-warehouse task.

As shown in fig. 5, fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of the main steps of an inventory management method for returned items, which mainly comprises the following steps:

step S501: determining returned goods, and determining historical batch information of the returned goods when the returned goods are delivered out of the warehouse;

step S502: and taking the returned articles as articles corresponding to the historical batch information, and increasing the number of the articles corresponding to the historical batch information according to the number of the returned articles.

In the embodiment of the invention, the returned goods refer to goods which are sold out of the warehouse and need to be returned to the original warehouse after the transaction is cancelled. When the goods are sold out of the warehouse, the pre-occupied inventory is cleared, and the running water information is generated, wherein the running water information comprises: the method comprises the steps of corresponding to the business order number of an article, the delivery time, historical batch information when a delivery task is executed and the delivery quantity of the historical batch information. The historical batch information may be one or more second batch information, the quantity of which is selected from the first batch information and meets the ex-warehouse quantity, or the second batch information, the warehousing time of which is the longest, selected from the first batch information.

In the embodiment of the invention, when a return instruction is received, whether historical return information, namely reverse flow information exists in the flow information or not is inquired according to the flow information corresponding to the return instruction, and if not, the return instruction is directly executed; and if the historical goods returning information exists, judging whether the goods returning quantity corresponding to the historical goods returning information is larger than the goods returning quantity corresponding to the pipelining information, if not, subtracting the goods returning quantity corresponding to the historical goods returning information from the goods returning quantity corresponding to the pipelining information, and executing a goods returning instruction according to the obtained difference.

In the embodiment of the invention, when a plurality of historical batch information of returned goods exist, the plurality of historical batch information can be sequenced according to the warehousing time indicated by the historical batch information; and determining returned goods as goods corresponding to the historical batch information in turn according to the sequencing results of the plurality of historical batch information and the ex-warehouse quantity of each historical batch information, and increasing the available inventory corresponding to the historical batch information in the system according to the quantity of the returned goods.

For example, the warehousing information of a certain article in a warehouse is shown in the following table:

batch number	Number of available stocks	SKU	Time of warehousing
				A001	2	S01	2020-08
A002	3	S01	2020-09

At this time, the item is sold 4, and thus the number of ex-warehouses is 4. After receiving the ex-warehouse task, the system finds that a single batch cannot support the requested deduction, and then the deduction is supported by a plurality of batches together, and the following flow information is generated:

running water ID	Historical batch ID	Number of delivery	Service ticket number	Time of warehousing
					L001	A001	2	Order001	2020-08
L002	A002	2	Order001	2020-09

When goods return occurs, the goods return bill has the service bill number of the current warehouse-out, and also has the quantity of goods returned, and the basic information is as follows:

returned bill number	Service ticket number	Number of returned goods	Time of warehousing
				T001	Order001	3	2020-08

At the moment, acquiring the running water according to the business order number in the returned order number to obtain two pieces of running water information: l001 and L002; according to the sorting of the warehousing time, the quantity of returned goods is preferentially added to the historical batch information corresponding to the running water L001, namely the available inventory of A001 is increased by 2, and only 2 outgoing running water is output. However, there are 3 returned items, and there are 1 remaining items, and the historical batch information corresponding to the streamline L002 is returned, that is, the available stock of a002 is increased by 1.

As shown in fig. 6, fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of the main steps of an inventory management method for returned items, mainly comprising the following steps:

step S601: receiving a return instruction, wherein the return instruction comprises third batch information of the article to be returned;

step S602: and executing the ex-warehouse task aiming at the articles corresponding to the third batch of information so as to return the articles corresponding to the third batch of information to the corresponding article source.

In the embodiment of the invention, the returned article is different from the returned article, the returned article is the article which is put in storage again, and the returned article is the source of the article which is taken out of the warehouse and returned to the warehouse. For example, when the number of delivered items in a certain time period is less than the preset threshold, which indicates that the sales volume of the item is low, the system automatically initiates a return instruction, where the return instruction includes third batch information of the item to be returned from, such as sku of the item or an internal number of the item, and the system executes a delivery task for the item corresponding to the third batch information to return the item corresponding to the third batch information to a corresponding item source, such as a supplier. Therefore, the sales volume of the articles in the warehouse can be detected, and the articles with poor sales volume can be processed in time, so that the stock turnover speed is increased, and the stock cost is reduced.

For another example, when the current time has passed the shelf life of the article, which indicates that the article is not available for sale, the system automatically initiates a return instruction, which includes the third batch of information of the article to be returned, such as sku of the article or the internal number of the article, and the system executes the warehouse-out task for the article corresponding to the third batch of information, so as to return the article corresponding to the third batch of information to the corresponding article source, such as the supplier. Therefore, the quality guarantee period of the articles in the warehouse can be detected, the expired articles can be processed in time, and the expired articles are prevented from being sold out of the warehouse.

For another example, when the quality of the article is bad, the supplier may request to retrieve the article, and at this time, the system initiates a return instruction according to the request of the supplier, where the return instruction includes third batch information of the article to be returned, such as sku of the article or an internal number of the article, and the system executes an ex-warehouse task for the article corresponding to the third batch information, so as to return the article corresponding to the third batch information to the supplier. Therefore, under the condition of 'one product and multiple suppliers', when the product of one supplier has a problem, the batch of products can be processed only without influencing the sale of the products of other suppliers, so that the management of the product is more refined.

According to the inventory management method, after the ex-warehouse task is received, the target warehousing information matched with the identification is determined from the warehousing information according to the identification of the article to be ex-warehouse indicated in the ex-warehouse task, wherein the warehousing information comprises the warehousing time of the corresponding article. And then, according to the warehousing time, the target warehousing information is sequenced, and then the ex-warehouse task is executed on the articles corresponding to the target warehousing information of which the difference value between the current time and the warehousing time meets the preset condition according to the sequencing result and the ex-warehouse quantity indicated in the ex-warehouse task, so that the prior ex-warehouse of the articles warehoused firstly is realized, the probability of article retention in a warehouse is reduced, the inventory management effect is improved, particularly for some articles with short shelf lives, the articles can be timely sorted out of the warehouse according to the warehousing time, and the waste of resources is avoided.

Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of main modules of an inventory management device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 7, an inventory management device 700 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a task accepting module 701, a target warehousing information determining module 702, a sorting module 703, an article determining module 704 and a task executing module 705; wherein:

the task receiving module 701 is used for receiving the ex-warehouse tasks, and the ex-warehouse tasks indicate the article identifiers to be ex-warehouse and the ex-warehouse quantity;

an information determining module 702, configured to determine, from the warehousing information, one or more target warehousing information that is matched with the identifier of the article to be delivered from the task accepting module 701, where the warehousing information indicates warehousing time of the corresponding article;

the sorting module 703 is configured to sort the one or more pieces of target warehousing information according to the warehousing time determined by the information determining module 702;

an article determining module 704, configured to take an article corresponding to the target warehousing information for which a difference between current time and warehousing time meets a preset condition as an article corresponding to the ex-warehouse task according to the sorting result obtained by the sorting module 703 and the ex-warehouse quantity received by the task receiving module 701;

and the task execution module 705 is configured to execute the outbound task according to the item determined by the item determination module 704.

In the embodiment of the invention, the warehousing information also indicates the batch information of the articles, and the articles with the same batch information have the same warehousing time; the information determining module 702 may be further configured to determine one or more first lot information corresponding to the target warehousing information; the sorting module 703 may be further configured to sort the one or more first batch information according to the warehousing times respectively indicated by the one or more first batch information; the article determining module 704 may be further configured to select one or more second batches of information, the quantity of which satisfies the ex-warehouse quantity, from the first batches of information according to the sorting result, and use the article corresponding to the second batch of information as the article corresponding to the ex-warehouse task.

In this embodiment of the present invention, when the quantity of the articles corresponding to the first batch of information with the longest warehousing time indicated by the sorting result is not less than the ex-warehousing quantity, the information determining module 702 may be further configured to use the first batch of information with the longest warehousing time as the second batch of information.

In this embodiment of the present invention, when the quantity of the articles corresponding to the first lot information with the longest warehousing time is less than the ex-warehousing quantity, the information determining module 702 may be further configured to: judging whether the sum of available stocks of the first batch information is less than the ex-warehouse quantity; and when the available inventory sum is not less than the ex-warehouse quantity, selecting second batch information of which the available inventory sum is not less than the ex-warehouse quantity from the plurality of first inventory batches according to the sorting result.

In this embodiment of the present invention, the information determining module 702 may further be configured to: according to the sorting result, taking the first batch information with the longest warehousing time as the current batch information; the item determination module 704 may also be configured to: circularly executing the following steps until all articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task are determined: taking the articles corresponding to the current batch information as articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task, and determining the difference value between the ex-warehouse quantity and the article quantity corresponding to the current batch information; and according to the sorting result, taking the next first batch information of the current batch information as the current batch information, and according to the difference value, determining the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task from the articles corresponding to the current batch information.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the item determination module 704 may further be configured to: when the quantity of the articles corresponding to the current batch information is not larger than the difference value, taking all the articles corresponding to the current batch information as the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task; and when the quantity of the articles corresponding to the current batch information is larger than the difference value, selecting the articles with the quantity equal to the difference value from the articles corresponding to the current batch information as the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the item determination module 704 may further be configured to: and pre-occupying the articles corresponding to the target warehousing information so that the articles are not selected by warehousing tasks except the ex-warehouse task.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the item determination module 704 may further be configured to: determining returned goods, and determining historical batch information of the returned goods when the returned goods are delivered out of the warehouse; and taking the returned articles as articles corresponding to the historical batch information, and increasing the number of the articles corresponding to the historical batch information according to the number of the returned articles.

In an embodiment of the present invention, when there are a plurality of historical batch information of returned items, the item determining module 704 may further be configured to: sorting the plurality of historical batch information according to the warehousing time indicated by the historical batch information; and sequentially determining returned articles as articles corresponding to the historical batch information according to the sequencing results of the plurality of historical batch information and the ex-warehouse quantity of each historical batch information.

In the embodiment of the invention, the warehousing information also indicates the source of the corresponding article; the task execution module 705 may also be configured to: receiving a return instruction, wherein the return instruction comprises third batch information of the article to be returned; and executing the ex-warehouse task aiming at the articles corresponding to the third batch of information so as to return the articles corresponding to the third batch of information to the corresponding article sources.

According to the inventory management device provided by the embodiment of the invention, after the ex-warehouse task is received, the target warehousing information matched with the identifier is determined from the warehousing information according to the identifier of the article to be ex-warehouse indicated in the ex-warehouse task, wherein the warehousing information comprises the warehousing time of the corresponding article. And then, according to the warehousing time, the target warehousing information is sequenced, and then the ex-warehouse task is executed on the articles corresponding to the target warehousing information of which the difference value between the current time and the warehousing time meets the preset condition according to the sequencing result and the ex-warehouse quantity indicated in the ex-warehouse task, so that the prior ex-warehouse of the articles warehoused firstly is realized, the probability of article retention in a warehouse is reduced, the inventory management effect is improved, particularly for some articles with short shelf lives, the articles can be timely sorted out of the warehouse according to the warehousing time, and the waste of resources is avoided.

Fig. 8 shows an exemplary system architecture 800 of an inventory management method or an inventory management device to which embodiments of the invention may be applied.

As shown in fig. 8, the system architecture 800 may include

terminal devices

801, 802, 803, a network 804, and a server 805. The network 804 serves to provide a medium for communication links between the

terminal devices

801, 802, 803 and the server 805. Network 804 may include various types of connections, such as wire, wireless communication links, or fiber optic cables, to name a few.

A user may use the

terminal devices

801, 802, 803 to interact with a server 805 over a network 804 to receive or send messages or the like. The

terminal devices

801, 802, 803 may have installed thereon various communication client applications, such as shopping applications, web browser applications, search applications, instant messaging tools, mailbox clients, social platform software, and the like.

The

terminal devices

801, 802, 803 may be various electronic devices having a display screen including, but not limited to, smart phones, tablet computers, laptop portable computers, desktop computers, and the like.

The server 805 may be a server that provides various services, such as a back-office management server that provides support for warehouse management personnel to access the inventory management system using the

terminal devices

801, 802, 803. The background management server can analyze and process the received data such as the inventory query request and feed back the processing result (such as target warehousing information, available inventory and warehousing time) to the terminal equipment.

It should be noted that, an inventory management method provided by the embodiment of the present invention is generally executed by the electronic device 805, and accordingly, an inventory management apparatus is generally disposed in the electronic device 805.

It should be understood that the number of terminal devices, networks, and servers in fig. 8 is merely illustrative. There may be any number of terminal devices, networks, and servers, as desired for implementation.

Referring now to FIG. 9, shown is a block diagram of a computer system 900 suitable for use with a terminal device implementing an embodiment of the present invention. The terminal device shown in fig. 9 is only an example, and should not bring any limitation to the functions and the scope of use of the embodiments of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 9, the computer system 900 includes a Central Processing Unit (CPU)901 that can perform various appropriate actions and processes in accordance with a program stored in a Read Only Memory (ROM)902 or a program loaded from a storage section 908 into a Random Access Memory (RAM) 903. In the RAM 903, various programs and data necessary for the operation of the system 900 are also stored. The CPU 901, ROM 902, and RAM 903 are connected to each other via a bus 904. An input/output (I/O) interface 905 is also connected to bus 904.

The following components are connected to the I/O interface 905: an input portion 906 including a keyboard, a mouse, and the like; an output section 907 including components such as a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT), a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), and the like, and a speaker; a storage portion 908 including a hard disk and the like; and a communication section 909 including a network interface card such as a LAN card, a modem, or the like. The communication section 909 performs communication processing via a network such as the internet. The drive 910 is also connected to the I/O interface 905 as necessary. A removable medium 911 such as a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, a semiconductor memory, or the like is mounted on the drive 910 as necessary, so that a computer program read out therefrom is mounted into the storage section 908 as necessary.

In particular, according to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the processes described above with reference to the flowcharts may be implemented as computer software programs. For example, embodiments of the present disclosure include a computer program product comprising a computer program embodied on a computer readable medium, the computer program comprising program code for performing the method illustrated in the flow chart. In such an embodiment, the computer program may be downloaded and installed from a network through the communication section 909, and/or installed from the removable medium 911. The above-described functions defined in the system of the present invention are executed when the computer program is executed by a Central Processing Unit (CPU) 901.

It should be noted that the computer readable medium shown in the present invention can be a computer readable signal medium or a computer readable storage medium or any combination of the two. A computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any combination of the foregoing. More specific examples of the computer readable storage medium may include, but are not limited to: an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. In the present invention, a computer readable storage medium may be any tangible medium that can contain, or store a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. In the present invention, however, a computer readable signal medium may include a propagated data signal with computer readable program code embodied therein, for example, in baseband or as part of a carrier wave. Such a propagated data signal may take many forms, including, but not limited to, electro-magnetic, optical, or any suitable combination thereof. A computer readable signal medium may also be any computer readable medium that is not a computer readable storage medium and that can communicate, propagate, or transport a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. Program code embodied on a computer readable medium may be transmitted using any appropriate medium, including but not limited to: wireless, wire, fiber optic cable, RF, etc., or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

The flowchart and block diagrams in the figures illustrate the architecture, functionality, and operation of possible implementations of systems, methods and computer program products according to various embodiments of the present invention. In this regard, each block in the flowchart or block diagrams may represent a module, segment, or portion of code, which comprises one or more executable instructions for implementing the specified logical function(s). It should also be noted that, in some alternative implementations, the functions noted in the block may occur out of the order noted in the figures. For example, two blocks shown in succession may, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality involved. It will also be noted that each block of the block diagrams or flowchart illustration, and combinations of blocks in the block diagrams or flowchart illustration, can be implemented by special purpose hardware-based systems which perform the specified functions or acts, or combinations of special purpose hardware and computer instructions.

The modules described in the embodiments of the present invention may be implemented by software or hardware. The described modules may also be provided in a processor, which may be described as: a processor includes a task acceptance module, a target warehousing information determination module, a ranking module, an item determination module, and a task execution module. Where the names of these modules do not in some cases constitute a limitation on the module itself, for example, a task acceptance module may also be described as a "module for receiving outbound tasks".

As another aspect, the present invention also provides a computer-readable medium that may be contained in the apparatus described in the above embodiments; or may be separate and not incorporated into the device. The computer readable medium carries one or more programs which, when executed by a device, cause the device to comprise: receiving an ex-warehouse task, wherein the ex-warehouse task indicates the article identification to be ex-warehouse and the ex-warehouse quantity; determining one or more target warehousing information matched with the article identification to be delivered from the warehousing information, wherein the warehousing information indicates the warehousing time of the corresponding article; sorting one or more target warehousing information according to the warehousing time; according to the sorting result and the ex-warehouse quantity, taking the article corresponding to the target warehousing information of which the difference value between the current time and the warehousing time meets the preset condition as the article corresponding to the ex-warehouse task; and executing the ex-warehouse task according to the determined articles.

According to the technical scheme of the embodiment of the invention, after the ex-warehouse task is received, the target warehousing information matched with the identification is determined from the warehousing information according to the identification of the article to be ex-warehouse indicated in the ex-warehouse task, wherein the warehousing information comprises the warehousing time of the corresponding article. And then, according to the warehousing time, the target warehousing information is sequenced, and then the ex-warehouse task is executed on the articles corresponding to the target warehousing information of which the difference value between the current time and the warehousing time meets the preset condition according to the sequencing result and the ex-warehouse quantity indicated in the ex-warehouse task, so that the prior ex-warehouse of the articles warehoused firstly is realized, the probability of article retention in a warehouse is reduced, the inventory management effect is improved, particularly for some articles with short shelf lives, the articles can be timely sorted out of the warehouse according to the warehousing time, and the waste of resources is avoided.

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. An inventory management method, comprising:

determining one or more target warehousing information matched with the article identification to be delivered from the warehousing information, wherein the warehousing information indicates warehousing time of corresponding articles;

sorting the one or more target warehousing information according to the warehousing time;

and executing the ex-warehouse task according to the determined articles.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the warehousing information further indicates lot information for the items, the items of the same lot information having the same warehousing time;

3. The method of claim 2,

and when the quantity of the articles corresponding to the first batch of information with the longest warehousing time indicated by the sequencing result is not less than the ex-warehousing quantity, taking the first batch of information with the longest warehousing time as the second batch of information.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein when the quantity of the items corresponding to the first lot information with the longest warehousing time is less than the ex-warehousing quantity,

judging whether the sum of available inventory of the plurality of first batch information is less than the ex-warehouse quantity;

5. The method of claim 4,

according to the sorting result, the first batch information with the longest warehousing time is used as the current batch information;

circularly executing the following steps until all the articles corresponding to the ex-warehouse task are determined:

taking the article corresponding to the current batch information as the article corresponding to the ex-warehouse task, and determining the difference value between the ex-warehouse quantity and the article quantity corresponding to the current batch information;

and according to the sorting result, taking the next first batch information of the current batch information as the current batch information, and according to the difference value, determining the article corresponding to the ex-warehouse task from the articles corresponding to the current batch information.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the determining the item corresponding to the ex-warehouse task from the items corresponding to the current batch information according to the difference value comprises:

7. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the step of taking the article corresponding to the target warehousing information of which the difference between the current time and the warehousing time meets the preset condition as the article corresponding to the ex-warehousing task comprises the following steps:

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining returned goods, and determining historical batch information of the returned goods when the returned goods are delivered out of a warehouse;

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein when there are a plurality of the historical lot information of the returned item,

and sequentially determining the returned articles as the articles corresponding to the historical batch information according to the sequencing results of the plurality of historical batch information and the ex-warehouse quantity of each historical batch information.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the warehousing information further indicates a source of the corresponding item;

receiving a return instruction, wherein the return instruction comprises third batch information of the item to be returned;

and executing the ex-warehouse task aiming at the articles corresponding to the third batch of information so as to return the articles corresponding to the third batch of information to the corresponding article sources.

11. The inventory management device is characterized by comprising a task receiving module, an information determining module, a sequencing module, an article determining module and a task executing module; wherein:

the sorting module is used for sorting the one or more target warehousing information according to the warehousing time determined by the information determining module;

12. An inventory management 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 1-10.

13. 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 1-10.