CN113947317A

CN113947317A - Material warehousing method, material ex-warehouse method, device, scheduling equipment and system

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Publication number: CN113947317A
Application number: CN202111233983.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 马运; 曾黎明; 李文彬
Original assignee: Shenzhen Kubo Software Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen Kubo Software Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-10-22
Filing date: 2021-10-22
Publication date: 2022-01-18
Also published as: WO2023066278A1

Abstract

The embodiment of the disclosure provides a material warehousing method, a material ex-warehouse method, a device, a scheduling device and a system, wherein the material warehousing method comprises the following steps: aiming at each type of material to be warehoused, acquiring the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of each batch of the type; distributing bin gates of the bins for the materials to be warehoused according to the type of the material to be warehoused belonging to the batch, and if the material storage quantity of a first gate corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the previous batch of the current batch is smaller than the upper limit storage quantity corresponding to the type, determining the bin gate corresponding to each material to be warehoused of the current batch according to the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of the current batch and the material storage quantity of the first gate so as to enable a gate corresponding to at least one material to be warehoused of the current batch to be a first gate; and generating a warehousing instruction of the type of materials to be warehoused according to the bin gate corresponding to the material to be warehoused of each batch, so that the mixed batch material storage is realized, and the space utilization rate of the bin is improved.

Description

Material warehousing method, material ex-warehouse method, device, scheduling equipment and system

Technical Field

The disclosure relates to the technical field of intelligent warehousing, in particular to a material warehousing method, a material ex-warehousing device, scheduling equipment and a material ex-warehousing system.

Background

With the rapid development of the logistics industry, higher requirements are put forward on the goods taking and placing efficiency of the warehousing system.

Most of the existing material warehousing strategies are based on the batch corresponding to the material, and the materials of the same batch are placed in a material box or in the same grid, so that the operation of the material box during delivery is simplified.

For materials with high requirements on storage timeliness, such as food, medicine, clothes, electronic components and the like, a user often adopts a strategy based on consumption capacity replenishment, so that a storage system can receive storage orders of more batches of materials, and the storage strategy is adopted, so that the storage space of a material box is wasted, and the space utilization rate of a warehouse of the storage system is reduced.

Disclosure of Invention

The utility model provides a material warehouse-in method, a material warehouse-out method, a device, a dispatching device and a system, which realize the storage strategy of the mixed batch materials with the same grid, improve the utilization rate of the storage space of a material box, and further improve the space utilization rate of the warehouse of a storage system.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a material warehousing method, where the material warehousing method includes: aiming at each type of material to be put in storage, acquiring the storage quantity of the material to be put in storage of each batch of the type; for each type of material to be warehoused, distributing bin gates of the bins for the material to be warehoused of each type according to the batch to which the type of material to be warehoused belongs, and if the material storage quantity of a first gate corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the last batch of the current batch of the type is smaller than the upper limit storage quantity corresponding to the type, determining the bin gate corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type according to the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type and the material storage quantity of the first gate so as to enable a gate corresponding to at least one material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type to be the first gate; and aiming at each type of material to be warehoused, generating a warehousing instruction of the type of material to be warehoused according to the grid of the bin corresponding to each batch of material to be warehoused of the type.

Optionally, determining the bin gate of the bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the current type batch according to the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of the current type batch and the material storage quantity of the first gate corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the previous type batch, including: if the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused of the type current batch is smaller than or equal to a first quantity, determining that a grid corresponding to the materials to be warehoused of the type current batch is the first grid, wherein the sum of the first quantity and the material storage quantity of the first grid corresponding to the materials to be warehoused of the type previous batch is equal to the upper limit storage quantity of the first grid for storing the materials to be warehoused of the type; or if the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused of the type current batch is greater than the first quantity, determining a first quantity of grid openings corresponding to the materials to be warehoused of the type current batch as the first grid openings, so that the quantity of the materials to be warehoused of the type corresponding to the first grid openings reaches the upper limit storage quantity of the first grid openings for storing the materials to be warehoused of the type; and determining at least one second grid opening as a grid opening corresponding to the rest materials to be warehoused in the current batch of the type according to the difference value between the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused in the current batch of the type and the first quantity, wherein the second grid opening is an idle grid opening of a first material box or an idle grid opening of a second material box corresponding to the first grid opening, and the first material box and the second material box are different material boxes.

Optionally, the step of allocating the bin grid for the material to be warehoused of the type target lot includes: determining a target bin which is closest to the corresponding batch of the materials and the target batch from a first type bin with a storage shelf filled with the materials of the type, wherein the material storage quantity of at least one target grid of the first type bin is smaller than the upper limit storage quantity corresponding to the type, and the arrival time corresponding to the type target batch is earlier than the arrival times corresponding to other batches of the type; and determining the bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the type target batch according to the material storage quantity of at least one target bin of the target bin and the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of the type target batch, wherein the bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the type target batch comprises at least one target bin.

Optionally, the method further includes: and generating a carrying instruction of the target material box so as to carry the target material box to a position corresponding to the material to be put in storage, and placing at least one material to be put in storage in a target batch in the target material box.

Optionally, the method further includes: according to the type of the material to be put in storage and the batch corresponding to each grid opening of the material box filled with the material to be put in storage, the storage position of the storage shelf corresponding to the material box is determined, so that the material box is placed on the corresponding storage position.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a material warehouse-out method, where, for a warehousing system using the material warehouse-in method provided in any embodiment of the first aspect of the present disclosure, the material warehouse-out method includes: determining at least one bin to be delivered from the candidate bins according to the delivery quantity of the type of materials and the batches of the type of materials corresponding to the grids of the candidate bins aiming at each type of materials in the delivery order; generating a warehouse-out instruction according to the corresponding position of the at least one warehouse bin to be warehoused; the candidate bin is a bin which is stored on a storage shelf and is used for placing the type of materials, the at least one bin to be discharged comprises a first target bin, the first target bin is one of the candidate bins, and the arrival time of the type of materials stored in at least one grid opening of the first target bin is earlier than the arrival time of the type of materials stored in other candidate bins.

Optionally, determining at least one bin to be delivered from the candidate bins according to the quantity of the delivered types of the materials and the batches of the types of the materials corresponding to the grids of the candidate bins, including: acquiring a first corresponding relation, wherein the first corresponding relation comprises types and batches of materials stored in each grid opening of each candidate bin and the quantity of the materials of the batches of the types; and according to the delivery quantity of the types of materials and the first corresponding relation, sequentially determining the candidate bins corresponding to each grid opening as the bins to be delivered according to the sequence of the arrival time corresponding to the batches of the materials stored in the grid openings from early to late.

Optionally, determining, according to the number of delivered bins of the types of the materials and the first corresponding relationship, the candidate bins corresponding to each bin as the bins to be delivered according to the sequence of the arrival times corresponding to the batches of the materials stored in the bins from early to late, includes: sorting the grids of each candidate bin in the first corresponding relation according to the sequence of the arrival time corresponding to the batch of the materials stored in the grids from early to late to obtain a first sorting result; and according to the output quantity of the type of materials and the first sequencing result, sequentially determining the candidate bin corresponding to each grid opening as the bin to be output.

Optionally, determining at least one bin to be delivered from the candidate bins according to the quantity of the delivered types of the materials and the batches of the types of the materials corresponding to the grids of the candidate bins, including:

acquiring a first corresponding relation, wherein the first corresponding relation comprises types and batches of materials stored in each grid opening of each candidate bin and the quantity of the materials of the batches of the types; and according to the ex-warehouse quantity of the type of materials and the first corresponding relation, sequentially determining the candidate bins as the bins to be ex-warehouse according to the sequence of the first time corresponding to the candidate bins from early to late, wherein the first time is the earliest arrival time in the arrival times corresponding to the batches of the type of materials stored in the cells of the candidate bins.

Optionally, determining, according to the number of delivered bins of the types of materials and the first corresponding relationship, the bins to be delivered in each candidate bin in sequence from morning to evening according to the first time corresponding to the candidate bin, including: sorting the candidate workbins according to the sequence of the first time corresponding to the candidate workbins from morning to night to obtain a second sorting result; and according to the output quantity of the types of materials and the second sorting result, sequentially determining each candidate bin as the bin to be output.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a material warehousing device, where the material warehousing device includes: the warehousing quantity acquisition module is used for acquiring the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused in each batch of each type aiming at each type of the materials to be warehoused; the bin port distribution module is used for distributing bin ports of the bins for the materials to be warehoused of each type according to the batch to which the materials to be warehoused of the type belong to each type, and if the material storage quantity of a first bin port corresponding to the materials to be warehoused of the last batch of the current batch of the type is smaller than the upper limit storage quantity corresponding to the type, the bin port of the bin corresponding to the materials to be warehoused of the current batch of the type is determined according to the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused of the current batch of the type and the material storage quantity of the first bin port, so that the bin port corresponding to at least one material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type is the first bin port; and the warehousing instruction generating module is used for generating warehousing instructions of the types of materials to be warehoused according to the grids of the bins corresponding to the types of the materials to be warehoused in each batch.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a material warehouse-out device, where, for a warehousing system using the material warehouse-in method provided in any embodiment of the first aspect of the present disclosure, the material warehouse-out device includes: the ex-warehouse bin determining module is used for determining at least one bin to be ex-warehouse from the candidate bins according to the ex-warehouse quantity of the type of materials and the batches of the type of materials corresponding to the grids of the candidate bins aiming at each type of materials in the ex-warehouse order; the warehouse-out instruction generating module is used for generating a warehouse-out instruction according to the corresponding position of the at least one bin to be warehoused; the candidate bin is a bin which is stored on a storage shelf and is used for placing the type of materials, the at least one bin to be discharged comprises a first target bin, the first target bin is one of the candidate bins, and the arrival time of the type of materials stored in at least one grid opening of the first target bin is earlier than the arrival time of the type of materials stored in other candidate bins.

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a scheduling apparatus, including: a memory and at least one processor; the memory stores computer-executable instructions; the at least one processor executes the computer-executable instructions stored in the memory, so that the at least one processor executes the material warehousing method provided in any embodiment corresponding to the first aspect of the present disclosure, and/or the material ex-warehouse method provided in any embodiment corresponding to the second aspect of the present disclosure.

In a sixth aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a warehousing system, including: the storage shelf and the scheduling device provided by the corresponding embodiment of the third aspect of the present disclosure, the storage shelf includes a plurality of storage positions, and each storage position can be used for storing at least one bin.

In a seventh aspect, this disclosed embodiment further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer executing instruction is stored in the computer-readable storage medium, and when a processor executes the computer executing instruction, the method provided in any embodiment corresponding to the first aspect and/or the second aspect of the present disclosure is implemented.

In an eighth aspect, the embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a computer program product, which includes a computer program, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the computer program implements the method provided in any embodiment corresponding to the first aspect and/or the second aspect of the present disclosure.

The material warehousing method, the material ex-warehouse method, the device, the dispatching equipment and the system provided by the embodiment of the disclosure aim at multiple batches of materials needing to be stored in a warehouse, such as materials which are warehoused for the first time or returned to the warehouse again, according to the types and batches of the materials, the bin ports of the bins are distributed for the materials to be warehoused, if the storage quantity of the material bins of the first bin port corresponding to the material bin to be warehoused of the previous batch of the current batch is smaller than the corresponding upper limit storage quantity, the bin port corresponding to the materials to be warehoused of the current batch is determined based on the warehousing quantity of the material bins to be warehoused of the current batch and the storage quantity of the materials of the first bin port, so as to store part of the materials to be warehoused of the current batch in the first bin port corresponding to the materials to be warehoused of the previous batch, so as to fill the bin ports, thus realizing the material warehousing strategy of mixing multiple materials in the same bin port, and comparing with the storage mode of only storing the same batch of materials in the same bin port, the space utilization rate of the material box is improved, the space utilization rate of the storage shelf is further improved, meanwhile, when materials are discharged from the warehouse, the number of the material boxes hit by orders is reduced, and the warehousing efficiency of the materials is improved.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the present disclosure and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.

Fig. 1 is an application scenario diagram of a material warehousing method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 2 is a flowchart of a material warehousing method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 3 is a flowchart of a material warehousing method according to another embodiment of the disclosure;

fig. 4 is a flowchart of a material warehouse-out method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a material warehousing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a material delivery device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a scheduling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a warehousing system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

With the foregoing drawings in mind, certain embodiments of the disclosure have been shown and described in more detail below. These drawings and written description are not intended to limit the scope of the disclosed concepts in any way, but rather to illustrate the concepts of the disclosure to those skilled in the art by reference to specific embodiments.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to the exemplary embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. When the following description refers to the accompanying drawings, like numbers in different drawings represent the same or similar elements unless otherwise indicated. The implementations described in the exemplary embodiments below are not intended to represent all implementations consistent with the present disclosure. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatus and methods consistent with certain aspects of the present disclosure, as detailed in the appended claims.

The following describes the technical solutions of the present disclosure and how to solve the above technical problems in specific embodiments. The following several specific embodiments may be combined with each other, and details of the same or similar concepts or processes may not be repeated in some embodiments. Embodiments of the present disclosure will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The following explains an application scenario of the embodiment of the present disclosure:

fig. 1 is an application scenario diagram of a material warehousing method provided in the embodiment of the present disclosure, and as shown in fig. 1, the material warehousing method and the material ex-warehousing method provided in the embodiment of the present disclosure may be executed by a scheduling device, and the scheduling device may be a computer or a server. The materials 10 to be warehoused are usually placed in the spare part area 110 of the warehousing system 100, the materials 10 to be warehoused can be divided into a plurality of batches according to the time when the materials 10 to be warehoused first reach the spare part area 110 or the latest time when the materials 10 to be warehoused reach the spare part area 110, when warehousing of the materials 10 to be warehoused is required, the materials 110 to be warehoused of each batch are often sequentially stored in the bins 120 according to the sequence of the batches from early to late, in order to facilitate subsequent material warehouse-out and reduce sorting operation during warehouse-out, one batch of the materials 10 to be warehoused is often stored in one bin 120, and the materials 10 to be warehoused which are positioned in the same dotted line circle in fig. 1 are the same batch of materials, so that more bins 120 are positioned in a state of not full bins, and the space utilization rate of the bins 120 is low.

In order to improve the space utilization of the bin 120, the storage space of the bin 120 is divided into a plurality of independent cells 121, so that each cell 121 stores a batch of material 10 to be put into the bin, and fig. 1 illustrates that the bin 120 includes 4 cells 121.

In order to control the product cost, more and more users choose to adopt a complementary strategy based on consumption capacity, so that the warehousing system can receive lots of material warehousing orders, and the quantity of materials corresponding to each lot is small. One grid 121 is adopted to store one batch of materials 10 to be put in storage in time, the phenomenon that more grids 121 are not filled exists, and the space utilization rate of the material box 120 is still low.

In order to further improve the space utilization rate of the bin 120, the material warehousing method provided by the present disclosure, based on the type and batch to which the material belongs, by comparing the warehousing quantity of the materials 10 to be warehoused with the storage quantity of the material at the grid 121, realizes a material warehousing strategy of storing the materials 10 to be warehoused in different batches in the same grid 120, thereby filling each grid 121 of the bin 120 as much as possible, fully utilizing the storage space of the bin 120, and improving the space utilization rate of the bin 120.

Fig. 2 is a flowchart of a material warehousing method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, and as shown in fig. 2, the material warehousing method is applicable to a warehousing system, and the material warehousing method may be executed by a material warehousing device or a scheduling device. The material warehousing method provided by the embodiment comprises the following steps:

step S201, for each type of material to be warehoused, acquiring the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of each batch of the type.

Wherein, the batches are mainly used for distinguishing the small differences among the same products produced by different suppliers or different production modes, different sources, different production places and the like of the same supplier.

In some embodiments, at least one of the arrival time and the material code of different batches of material to be warehoused is different. The same reaching time can be the reaching time in the same time period, and the reaching time can be the time when the material to be warehoused first reaches the warehousing system, such as the time when the material to be warehoused first reaches the spare part area of the warehousing system, or the time when the material to be warehoused newly reaches the warehousing system, such as the time when the material to be warehoused newly reaches the spare part area of the warehousing system. The type of the material to be warehoused may be SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) corresponding to the material to be warehoused. The material code can be the serial number of the material and can be determined according to the production raw material, the production line, the production shift, the supplier, the production place, the material type, the production time, the logistics path and other parameters of the material. When the materials need to be put in storage, the materials are called as the materials to be put in storage, and the materials to be put in storage can comprise the materials which need to be firstly stored in the storage shelf and can also comprise the materials which need to be returned to the storage shelf again after sorting and other processing are finished.

The materials mentioned in the present disclosure may be shelf-life or storage time sensitive materials, such as shorter shelf-life materials, e.g., food, electronic components, medicines, season-ready clothes, etc.

Specifically, when the material to be put into the warehouse reaches the spare part area, the batch of the material to be put into the warehouse can be determined according to the time period of the time when the material to be put into the warehouse reaches the spare part area.

Further, when the material to be put in storage reaches the spare part area, whether the material to be put in storage is returned material or not can be judged firstly, and if not, the batch of the material to be put in storage is determined according to the time period of the time when the material to be put in storage reaches the spare part area; if the materials to be put in storage are returned materials, the minimum batch of the materials which are currently stored in the storage system and have the same type as the materials to be put in storage can be determined as the batch of the materials to be put in storage, so that the returned materials are put in storage preferentially.

In some embodiments, a larger batch of material indicates a later arrival time of the material.

Specifically, when the material to be put in the spare part area needs to be put in storage, for example, according to a fixed period, or when the space occupancy rate of the spare part area reaches a preset value, or when a storage instruction of the spare part area is received, the storage operation of the material to be put in the spare part area is executed.

Further, the warehousing instructions of various types of materials to be warehoused can be generated according to the residual quantity of various types of materials stored on the storage shelf of the warehousing system, so that the materials to be warehoused in the spare part area are stored on the storage shelf.

Specifically, when the materials to be put in the spare part area need to be put in storage, the bins can be sequentially distributed for each type of materials according to the type.

Specifically, for each type or SKU of materials to be warehoused, the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused in each batch of the type or SKU is acquired based on the spare part list of the spare part area. The spare part list comprises the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused of various types of batches currently stored in the spare part area, and the warehousing quantity is the quantity of the materials to be warehoused of various types of batches stored in the spare part area.

Specifically, when a material (material to be put in storage) enters the spare part area, or when the material is taken out from the spare part area, such as being stored in a bin, the spare part list of the spare part area is updated based on the type and batch to which the material belongs.

Further, the spare part list may be stored in a spare part device in a spare part area, and the dispatching device obtains the latest spare part list stored in the spare part device in a query manner, and further determines the warehousing number of the to-be-warehoused materials of each batch of the type based on the spare part list.

Step S202, for each type of material to be warehoused, according to the batch to which the type of material to be warehoused belongs, allocating a grid of a bin to the material to be warehoused of each type of batch, if the material storage quantity of a first grid corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the last batch of the current batch of the type is smaller than the upper limit storage quantity corresponding to the type, determining the grid of the bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type according to the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type and the material storage quantity of the first grid, so that the grid corresponding to at least one material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type is the first grid.

The grids are independent physical spaces for storing materials in the bin, one bin can comprise one or more grids, such as 4, 6, 8 and the like, the number of the grids corresponding to each bin can be the same or different, and the number and the size of the grids of the bin can be adjusted according to requirements.

The material storage quantity of the first grid comprises the quantity of the materials which are stored in the first grid and the quantity of the materials which are distributed to the first grid. If the first grid opening is a blank opening, the material storage quantity of the first grid opening is the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused of the previous batch in the type; if the first grid opening stores a preset amount of the type of materials, the storage amount of the materials of the first grid opening is the sum of the preset amount and the storage amount of the materials to be stored in the previous batch of the type. The upper limit storage quantity corresponding to the type of the first bay is the maximum quantity of the type of the materials which can be stored in the first bay, and the upper limit storage quantity corresponding to the type of the first bay can be determined based on the size of the type of the materials and the size of the first bay.

Specifically, for each type of material to be warehoused, according to the batch to which each material to be warehoused belongs, the grid of the bin is distributed to the material to be warehoused of each batch.

Specifically, the grid openings of the bin may be sequentially allocated to the material to be warehoused of the type of each batch according to the order of the arrival time corresponding to the batch from early to late.

In some embodiments, one or more empty bins may be stored on the operating floor of the spare area to store the materials to be stocked in each spare area. Furthermore, the bin opening of the empty bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of each batch can be determined according to the batch to which the material to be warehoused of the type belongs and the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of each batch, so that at most one unfilled bin opening exists in each bin opening for placing the material to be warehoused, and the space utilization rate of the bin slot opening is improved.

Specifically, if the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of the previous batch of the current batch of the type is not enough to fill the corresponding first grid, that is, the material storage quantity of the first grid is smaller than the upper limit storage quantity of the first grid for storing the material of the type, the first grid is determined as one of the grids of the material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type, so that part of the material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type is stored in the first grid, and the material of multiple batches is stored in the same grid.

Specifically, if the material storage quantity of the first bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the previous batch of the current batch of the type is smaller than the upper limit storage quantity corresponding to the type, the bin opening of the bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type can be determined according to the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type and the material storage quantity of the first bin, and the determined bin opening corresponding to the current batch at least comprises the first bin opening.

Optionally, determining the bin gate of the bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the current type batch according to the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of the current type batch and the material storage quantity of the first gate corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the previous type batch, including: if the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused of the current type batch is smaller than or equal to a first quantity, determining a grid corresponding to the materials to be warehoused of the current type batch as the first grid; or if the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused of the type current batch is greater than the first quantity, determining a first quantity of grid openings corresponding to the materials to be warehoused of the type current batch as the first grid openings, so that the quantity of the materials to be warehoused of the type corresponding to the first grid openings reaches the upper limit storage quantity of the first grid openings for storing the materials to be warehoused of the type; and determining at least one second grid as a grid corresponding to the remaining materials to be warehoused of the current type batch according to the difference value between the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused of the current type batch and the first quantity.

And the sum of the first quantity and the material storage quantity of the first grid corresponding to the type of the materials to be warehoused of the previous batch is equal to the upper limit storage quantity of the first grid for storing the type of the materials to be warehoused. The second grid opening is an idle grid opening of a first material box or an idle grid opening of a second material box corresponding to the first grid opening, and the first material box and the second material box are different material boxes.

Specifically, according to the sequence of the arrival time corresponding to the batches from early to late or according to a specified sequence, the bin openings are sequentially allocated to the materials to be warehoused of each batch, and if the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused of the type of the current batch is smaller, namely smaller than the first quantity, the first bin opening corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the previous batch of the type can be directly determined to be the bin opening of the material to be warehoused of the type of the current batch.

Further, after the grid corresponding to the material to be warehoused of each type of each batch is determined, the batch and the grid can be bound, so that the batch corresponding to each grid of the bin is obtained.

Specifically, if the number of the materials to be warehoused of the type of current batch is large, that is, greater than the first number, the first bin may be determined by the bin of the first number of the materials to be warehoused of the type of current batch, and at least one second bin may be allocated to the remaining materials to be warehoused of the type of current batch.

In some embodiments, if there is a first type lot in the type, the lot of the material to be warehoused of the first type lot is determined to be an empty lot, and the previous lot of the first type lot is determined to be the previous lot of the next lot of the first type lot. And the warehousing quantity corresponding to the first type of batch of the type is equal to the upper limit storage quantity of the type of materials stored in the grid.

Specifically, after the distribution of the material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type is finished, the grid distribution is performed on the material to be warehoused of the next batch of the current batch, at this time, the current batch is the previous batch of the next batch, and by analogy, the grid distribution is performed on the material to be warehoused of each batch of the type.

Illustratively, if the bin LX01 is an empty bin and is placed on an operation platform of a spare part area, the bin LX01 includes 3 bins, a bin a, a bin B, and a bin C, the upper limit storage quantity of materials that can store SKU1 in each bin is 20, the to-be-warehoused materials that have SKU1 in the spare part area include 6 lots, the first lot corresponds to 10 warehouses, the second lot corresponds to 6 warehoused lots, the third lot corresponds to 4 warehoused lots, the fourth lot corresponds to 13 warehoused lots, the fifth lot corresponds to 20 warehoused lots, and the sixth lot corresponds to 5 warehoused lots, in this way, the bins allocated to the first lot, the second lot, and the third lot are bin a, the bins allocated to the 7 to-be-warehoused materials in the fourth lot and the fifth lot are bin B, and the remaining 13 to-be-warehoused materials in the fifth lot and the bin allocated to the sixth lot are bin C; or the grids distributed in the first, second and third batches are grid A, the grids distributed in the fourth and sixth batches are grid B, and the grid distributed in the fifth batch is grid C.

Further, if the material storage quantity of the first bin opening corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the previous batch of the current batch is equal to the upper limit storage quantity corresponding to the type, determining that the bin opening of the bin to which the first bin opening belongs or the bin openings of other bins are the bin openings of the material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type.

And step S203, generating a warehousing instruction of the type of materials to be warehoused according to the bin openings of the bins corresponding to the types of the materials to be warehoused in each batch according to each type of material to be warehoused.

After the bin opening of the bin corresponding to each type of material to be warehoused in each batch is determined, a warehousing instruction of the type of material to be warehoused is generated for each type of material to be warehoused based on the bin corresponding to the type of material to be warehoused in each batch and the corresponding bin opening, so that the material to be warehoused is stored in the corresponding bin opening, the bin in which the material to be warehoused is stored on a storage shelf, and warehousing operation of the type of material to be warehoused is completed.

Further, the warehousing instruction of the materials to be warehoused of each type of batch can be generated and displayed, and the warehousing instruction comprises the grid openings of the workbins corresponding to the materials to be warehoused of each type of batch so as to guide an operator to store the materials to be warehoused in the corresponding grid openings.

Furthermore, the operation personnel can carry or push the stored work bin to the conveying line, the work bin is transferred to the warehouse by the conveying line, the robot extracts the work bin from the other end of the conveying line, and the work bin is conveyed to the storage shelf to be stored.

The material warehousing method provided in this embodiment allocates bin openings of bins for multiple batches of materials to be stored in a warehouse, such as materials to be warehoused for the first time or returned to the warehouse again, according to the types and batches to which the materials belong, and if the storage quantity of the material bins of the first bin opening corresponding to the material bin to be warehoused for the previous batch of the current batch is smaller than the corresponding upper limit storage quantity, determines the bin opening corresponding to the material to be warehoused for the current batch based on the warehousing quantity of the material bins to be warehoused for the current batch and the storage quantity of the materials of the first bin opening, so as to store part of the material to be warehoused for the current batch in the first bin opening corresponding to the material to be warehoused for the previous batch, so as to fill up the bin openings, thereby implementing a material warehousing strategy of mixing multiple materials in the same bin opening, compared to a storage mode in which only stores the same batch of materials in the same bin opening, the space utilization rate of the material box is improved, the space utilization rate of the storage shelf is further improved, meanwhile, when materials are discharged from the warehouse, the number of the material boxes hit by orders is reduced, and the warehousing efficiency of the materials is improved.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart of a material warehousing method according to another embodiment of the present disclosure, where this embodiment is to further refine step S202 based on the embodiment shown in fig. 2, and add a step of generating a transport instruction and determining a warehouse location after step S202, as shown in fig. 3, the material warehousing method according to this embodiment may include the following steps:

step S301, aiming at each type of material to be warehoused, acquiring the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of each batch of the type.

Step S302, aiming at each type of material to be warehoused, according to the specified sequence of batches, sequentially distributing the grids of the bin for the material to be warehoused of each type according to the batch to which the type of material to be warehoused belongs.

The designated sequence may be from small to large, or from large to small, or another set sequence.

Specifically, the designated sequence of the batches of the materials to be warehoused of the type can be determined according to the batches corresponding to the returned materials in the materials to be warehoused of the type, so that the returned materials are warehoused preferentially.

For example, if the batches of the materials to be warehoused of the current type include a third batch, a fifth batch, a sixth batch and an eighth batch, the designated sequence may be the sequence of the third batch, the fifth batch, the sixth batch and the eighth batch, and if the materials to be warehoused of the sixth batch are returned materials, the designated sequence may be the sequence of the sixth batch, the third batch, the fifth batch and the eighth batch.

Step S303, determining a target bin, which is closest to the corresponding batch of the materials and the target batch, from the first type of bin, of which the storage shelf is filled with the materials of the type.

The material storage quantity of at least one target grid of the first type of bin is smaller than the upper limit storage quantity corresponding to the type, and the arrival time corresponding to the type target batch is earlier than the arrival time corresponding to other types of batches. The target batch is a corresponding batch with the earliest arrival time in all the batches of the materials to be put in storage, such as a first batch. The batch closest to the target batch may be the target batch, a previous batch of the target batch, or a next batch of the target batch, or a batch having an arrival time that is the least different from the arrival time of the target batch.

In this embodiment, each bin can only store one SKU or type of material. A target bin for storing a target batch of material to be stocked may be determined from the storage rack. The target bin is not an empty bin and at least one bin of the target bin has stored therein a batch of material of the type closest to the target batch.

Specifically, the dispatching device may store storage information of the bins stored on the storage shelves at the respective storage positions, where the storage information includes types, batches, and quantities of the materials stored in the respective compartments of the bins.

Specifically, when a bin is allocated to the first lot or the target lot of the material to be warehoused of the type in the spare part area, an empty bin may be determined as the bin, or a target bin closest to the target lot may be determined as the bin of the material to be warehoused of the target lot from the first lot stored on the storage shelf.

Further, if a plurality of target bins exist, the target bins may be sorted for each target bin based on the batch to which the type of material stored in each grid of the target bin belongs, and one or more target bins are sequentially determined as bins of the target batch of materials to be put in storage according to the sorting result.

For example, each target bin may be sorted according to its corresponding earliest batch, wherein the earlier the arrival time of the corresponding earliest batch, the earlier the sorting is.

Specifically, the target bins may be sorted according to the order from early to late of the average value of the arrival time of each batch corresponding to the target bin.

Specifically, the target bins may be sorted according to the lot to which the type of material stored in each compartment of the target bin belongs and the total amount of the material stored in each lot. For example, the target bin storing the lot with the earliest arrival time and the largest quantity of the stored materials of the lot with the earliest arrival time may be determined as the bin of the target lot to be put in storage.

Furthermore, a weight value can be set for each batch, the score of each target bin is calculated based on the weight value of each batch corresponding to the bin stored in the target bin and the total quantity of the materials stored in each batch, and the target bins are sorted in the order of the score from high to low.

The earlier the arrival time corresponding to the batch is, the larger the weight value of the batch is.

For example, taking a material to be warehoused as a SKU2 as an example, if the target bin is bin LX02 and bin LX05, bin LX02 includes 2 bins, bin a and bin B, bin LX02 bin a stores 10 first lots of SKU2 material, bin LX02 bin B stores 12 fourth lots of SKU2 material, bin L05 includes 4 bins, bin a, bin B, bin C and bin D, bin L05 bin a, bin C and bin D are all empty bins, bin B of bin LX05 stores 16 first lots of SKU2 material, and a target lot with a spare part area SKU2 as a second lot of material to be warehoused can be determined, and due to the number of first lots of material stored in bin LX05, the sorting result of the target bin LX05 and bin LX02 is determined to be more.

Further, if the first type of bin does not exist on the storage shelf or a target bin corresponding to the target batch and having a difference of the arrival time with a preset time does not exist, determining that one or more empty bins are bins of the target batch to be warehoused.

Step S304, determining the grid corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the type target batch according to the material storage quantity of at least one target grid of the target bin and the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of the type target batch.

The target cell is a cell which is not filled yet, namely a cell which can store redundant materials of the type. The grid corresponding to the material to be put in storage of the type of target batch comprises at least one target grid.

Specifically, after one or more target bins are determined, based on the material storage quantity of each target bin having a remaining storage space in each target bin and the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused in the type target batch, bins may be allocated to the materials to be warehoused in the type target batch.

Specifically, a second quantity of the materials to be warehoused of the type which can be still stored in each target bin can be determined through the material storage quantity corresponding to each target bin and the upper limit storage quantity corresponding to the type, one or more target bins are determined to be the bins of the materials to be warehoused of the type of target batch based on the second quantity and the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused of the type of target batch, if the number of the remaining target bins is still left, the blank ports of the target bin or the empty bins can be determined to be the bins of the materials to be warehoused of the type of target batch, and the determined bins are bound with the type of target batch.

Step S305, if the material storage quantity of the first bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the previous batch of the current batch of the type is smaller than the upper limit storage quantity corresponding to the type, determining the bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type according to the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type and the material storage quantity of the first bin, so that the bin corresponding to at least one material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type is the first bin.

After allocating the bin to be put in storage of the type target lot, the target lot is taken as the previous lot, and the bin is allocated to the material to be put in storage of the type of the next lot of the target lot, that is, the next lot of the target lot is taken as the current lot, and the bin allocation of the material to be put in storage is performed.

Further, if the material storage quantity of the first bin opening corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the previous batch of the current batch is equal to the upper limit storage quantity corresponding to the type, determining that the bin opening of the bin to which the first bin opening belongs or the unfilled bin opening of other bins is the bin opening of the material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type. The other bins may be determined by the technical solution corresponding to step S303, that is, the current lot is taken as a target lot, and one or more target bins corresponding to the current lot are determined, so as to determine the bin of the material to be put into the bin of the current lot from the one or more target bins.

Step S306, generating a carrying instruction of the target material box to carry the target material box to a position corresponding to the material to be put in storage, so as to place at least one material to be put in storage in the target material box in a target batch.

Specifically, after one or more target bins are determined, a carrying instruction of the one or more target bins is generated and sent to the robot to control one or more of the robot, the conveying line or the operator, and the like, and the one or more target bins are carried to a position corresponding to the material to be warehoused, such as an operation table in a spare part area, so as to place the material to be warehoused of the type of target lot in an unfilled bay (target bay) of the target bin.

In some embodiments, the robot may be controlled to transport one or more target bins to a corresponding transport line of the spare area based on the transport instruction, and then transport the one or more target bins to the spare area via the transport line, such as directly to an operation desk of the spare area, or move the one or more bins to the operation desk of the spare area by an operator.

Step S307, aiming at each type of material to be warehoused, generating a warehousing instruction of the type of material to be warehoused according to the grid of the bin corresponding to each batch of material to be warehoused of the type.

Step S308, determining the storage positions of the storage shelves corresponding to the material box according to the type of the material to be put in storage and the batches corresponding to the grids of the material box filled with the material to be put in storage, so as to place the material box on the corresponding storage positions.

Specifically, after an operator or a mechanical arm stores the materials to be warehoused in the corresponding grid of the workbin, the bin position is allocated to the workbin based on the corresponding relation between the grid of the workbin and the batch of the stored materials to be warehoused of the type, and the robot is controlled to convey the workbin stored with the materials to be warehoused to the corresponding bin position of the storage shelf for storage.

Further, according to the type of the material to be put in storage and the batch corresponding to each grid of the bin containing the material to be put in storage, an idle storage position is determined from the area (shelf) of the storage shelf for storing the material of the type as the storage position of the bin, and each batch corresponding to the bin stored on the storage position within the preset range of the idle storage position is close to each batch corresponding to the bin.

The preset range may be the same row or the same column, or a distance from 3, 5, or other numbers of library positions. The batch closeness may be the smallest difference of the sums of the batches or the smallest distance of the vectors corresponding to the batches.

In the embodiment, for each type of material to be warehoused, the bin openings of the bins are sequentially distributed for the material to be warehoused of each batch according to the sequence of the batches from early to late, for the type of material to be warehoused of a first batch or a target batch, one or more target bins closest to the target batch are determined as the bin of the target batch from each of the unloaded bins which are already stored with the material of the same type on the storage shelf of the warehousing system, one or more target bin openings are determined as the bin of the material to be warehoused of the first batch from the target bin, so that the newly warehoused material is stored in the bin openings of the warehoused material in a mixed batch mode, the bin openings are determined for the material to be warehoused of the subsequent batches based on the principle of storing in a batch changing mode, the space utilization rate of the bins is improved, more materials are stored in the bins, and fewer bins can be warehoused when the warehouse-out order is finished, thereby improving order processing efficiency.

Fig. 4 is a flowchart of a material warehouse-out method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, where in this embodiment, for a warehousing system adopting the material warehouse-in method according to the embodiment shown in fig. 2 to 3, as shown in fig. 4, the material warehouse-out method according to this embodiment includes the following steps:

step S401, aiming at each type of material in the delivery order, determining at least one bin to be delivered from the candidate bins according to the delivery quantity of the type of material and the batches of the type of material corresponding to each grid opening of the candidate bins.

The candidate bin is a bin which is stored on a storage shelf and is used for placing the type of materials, the at least one bin to be discharged comprises a first target bin, the first target bin is one of the candidate bins, and the arrival time of the type of materials stored in at least one grid opening of the first target bin is earlier than the arrival time of the type of materials stored in other candidate bins. I.e. the first target bin has stored therein the oldest type of material of the batch currently stored in the storage rack. The bin to be delivered is the bin to be delivered hit by the delivery order.

Specifically, after receiving the ex-warehouse order, the dispatching equipment determines at least one bin to be ex-warehouse to meet the order requirement of the ex-warehouse order from a candidate bin, placed on a storage shelf of the warehousing system, for each type of material required by the ex-warehouse order, based on the ex-warehouse quantity of the type of material. Specifically, at least one bin to be discharged from each candidate bin may be determined based on the lot of the type of material stored in each bin of each candidate bin, for example, the first target bin may be determined as a bin to be discharged.

Specifically, it may be determined that the first target bin or the first target bins storing the earliest or corresponding arrival time of the batch are the bins to be delivered for the delivery order.

Further, if a plurality of first target bins exist, and the sum of the quantities of the materials with the earliest arrival time stored in each first target bin is greater than the ex-warehouse quantity of the type of materials in the ex-warehouse order, one or more first target bins meeting the quantity requirement can be determined as bins to be ex-warehouse based on the quantity of the type of materials with the earliest batch or the earliest arrival time stored in each first target bin and the ex-warehouse quantity of the type of materials in the ex-warehouse order, so that the quantity of the bins to be ex-warehouse is as small as possible.

Further, if the third quantity of the material with the earliest arrival time stored in each first target bin is smaller than or equal to the ex-warehouse quantity of the type of material in the ex-warehouse order, the fourth quantity of the material of the type with the second earliest arrival time stored in each first target bin is obtained, and if the sum of the third quantity and the fourth quantity is larger than or equal to the ex-warehouse quantity of the type of material in the ex-warehouse order, each first target bin can be determined as each bin to be ex-warehouse. And if the sum of the third quantity and the fourth quantity is less than the ex-warehouse quantity of the type of materials in the ex-warehouse order, determining each second target material box from the candidate material boxes, wherein the second target material boxes are the candidate material boxes except the first target material box and storing the type of materials with the second-earliest arrival time, determining each first target material box and at least one second target material box as each bin to be ex-warehouse, and so on until the order requirement of the ex-warehouse order is met.

Specifically, each first target bin storing the type of material with the earliest batch can be searched from the candidate bins, and one or more first target bins are determined as bins to be discharged based on the number of the type of material stored in each first target bin, wherein the sum of the number of the type of material stored in each bin to be discharged is greater than or equal to the discharge number corresponding to the type in the discharge order.

And S402, generating a warehouse-out instruction according to the corresponding position of the at least one warehouse bin to be warehoused.

Specifically, after each bin to be discharged is determined, a discharging instruction is generated based on the position of the bin to be discharged, so that the robot is controlled to go to each corresponding position to extract each bin to be discharged, and discharging of each bin to be discharged is completed.

In some embodiments, the robot may transport each bin to be discharged to the discharge conveyor line, and then the discharge conveyor line transports each bin to be discharged to the corresponding discharge operating platform, so as to complete sorting of the materials in each bin to be discharged, and thus complete the corresponding discharge order.

When the bin to be delivered after sorting is not empty, a bin returning instruction of the bin can be generated to control the robot to store the bin on the storage shelf.

In some embodiments, all the materials in the bin to be delivered are taken out during sorting, and after the delivery order is completed, the remaining materials are transported to the spare area through a conveyor line or other conveying device, and the arrival time of the materials, i.e. the batch of the materials, is updated based on the arrival time of the materials at the spare area.

In some embodiments, the lot of material remains unchanged throughout the subsequent processing flow after the determination, i.e., the lot or arrival time of the material is the time when the material first reaches the spare area or the warehousing system.

In this embodiment, for a bin stored in a lot-by-lot manner at a bin gate, when an ex-warehouse order is received, the bin to be ex-warehouse corresponding to the out-warehouse order is determined based on the type, lot and quantity of the material corresponding to each gate of the bin stored on the storage shelf, so as to complete the out-warehouse order, and the earliest material in the out-warehouse lot is preferred, so as to avoid the loss of a user due to aging or overdue of the material due to long-time storage.

Specifically, the bin to which the bin belongs, in which the bin of the type of material with the earlier arrival time corresponding to the batch is stored, may be determined in sequence from the early arrival time to the late arrival time corresponding to the batch as each bin to be delivered until the demand for the delivery quantity of the type of material in the delivery order is satisfied.

Specifically, the bin in which the type of material with the earlier arrival time corresponding to the batch is stored can be sequentially determined as each target bin according to the sequence of the arrival time corresponding to the batch from early to late, and then the bin corresponding to each target bin is determined as the bin to be delivered.

In some embodiments, the determined number of bins to be out of stock should be possibly small.

In some embodiments, the target bin should preferably select the bin storing only the corresponding batch of material with the earliest arrival time, i.e. the corresponding bin with the earliest arrival time and a single batch, i.e. the bin storing only one batch of material, as the target bin.

For example, assuming that the order of the delivery order is to deliver 80 SKU07 materials, three bins are stored on the storage shelf, bin 01 to bin 04 each include 4 slots, slot a to slot D, the upper limit storage amount of the material for each slot to store SKU07 is 30, the batch and the amount of the SKU07 material stored in each slot of each bin are shown in table 1, and "empty" in table 1 indicates that no task material is stored in a slot, and is an empty slot, then slot a of bin 01, slot a of bin 03, and slot B of bin 01 may be sequentially determined as the target slot, and then bin 01 and bin 03 are determined to be delivered, so as to deliver 80 first SKU07 materials.

TABLE 1 first correspondence of SKU07

The first sequencing result can comprise a sequence number, a bin corresponding to the grid, a grid identification code and the batch and quantity of the materials stored in the grid. The grid identification code is used for identifying the grid of the bin and can be composed of a bin identification code and a grid code, wherein the grid code can be A, B, C and the like, and the grid identification code can be LX01A and is represented as grid A of the bin 01.

Specifically, each bin in the first sequencing result may be determined as a target bin of the material of the type in the delivery order in sequence, and then a candidate bin corresponding to each target bin may be determined as a bin to be delivered.

By discharging the materials out of the warehouse strictly according to the sequence of the batches from early to late, the problem that the materials are aged or exceed the quality guarantee period due to the fact that the materials are stored for too long time, and therefore customer loss is caused is avoided.

Optionally, determining at least one bin to be delivered from the candidate bins according to the quantity of the delivered types of the materials and the batches of the types of the materials corresponding to the grids of the candidate bins, including: acquiring a first corresponding relation, wherein the first corresponding relation comprises types and batches of materials stored in each grid opening of each candidate bin and the quantity of the materials of the batches of the types; and sequentially determining the candidate bins as the bins to be discharged according to the discharging quantity of the type of materials and the first corresponding relation and the sequence of the first time corresponding to the candidate bins from morning to night.

The first time is the earliest arrival time in the arrival times corresponding to the batches of the type of materials stored in the grids of the candidate bin.

Specifically, the first time corresponding to each candidate bin, that is, the arrival time of the earliest lot corresponding to each candidate bin, or the earliest arrival time of the material stored in each candidate bin may be counted. And sequentially determining each candidate bin as a bin to be delivered based on the sequence of the corresponding first time from morning to evening until the number of the materials stored in the determined bin to be delivered reaches or exceeds the delivery number corresponding to the type in the delivery order.

Specifically, one or more candidate bins may be determined in sequence as bins to be delivered based on the delivery order summarizing the delivery quantity of the type of material and the quantity of the material stored in each candidate bin from front to back in the second sorting result.

Specifically, if there are multiple candidate bins with the same first time, the candidate bins with the same first time may be sorted according to the sequence from the early to the late of the second time corresponding to the candidate bins, and so on. The second time is the second-earliest arrival time in the candidate bin, namely the arrival time corresponding to the lot of the materials stored in the candidate bin except the first time is the arrival time corresponding to the second-earliest lot.

Illustratively, if the number of ex-warehouse lots of SKU10 in the ex-warehouse order is 30, the candidate bin includes bin LX08, bin LX13, and bin LX19, where bin LX08 stores 20 second lot SKU10 materials, 15 third lot SKU10 materials, bin LX13 stores 42 third lot SKU10 materials, bin LX19 stores 20 second lot SKU10 materials, and 15 fourth lot SKU10 materials, the second sorting result may be bin LX08, bin LX19, and bin LX13, and since the total number of the materials stored in bin LX08 is 35 is greater than the number of ex-warehouse orders in the ex-warehouse order 30, bin LX08 may be determined to be an outstanding bin to complete the bin LX0820 second lot and the 10 third lot SKU10 with the order being completed.

In the embodiment, the non-strict delivery according to the batch is adopted, so that more workbins are prevented from being carried during delivery, and the delivery efficiency is improved.

Fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a material warehousing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, and as shown in fig. 5, the material warehousing device includes: a warehousing quantity obtaining module 510, a bin allocation module 520 and a warehousing instruction generating module 530.

The warehousing quantity obtaining module 510 is configured to obtain, for each type of material to be warehoused, a warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of each batch of the type; a bin port distribution module 520, configured to distribute bin ports of bins for each type of material to be warehoused according to a batch to which the type of material to be warehoused belongs, and if a material storage quantity of a first bin port corresponding to a material to be warehoused of a previous batch of a current batch of the type is smaller than an upper limit storage quantity corresponding to the type, determine a bin port of a bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type according to the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type and the material storage quantity of the first bin port, so that a bin port corresponding to at least one material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type is the first bin port; and the warehousing instruction generating module 530 is configured to generate, for each type of material to be warehoused, a warehousing instruction of the type of material to be warehoused according to a bin gate of a bin corresponding to each batch of material to be warehoused of the type.

Optionally, the cell allocation module 520 includes:

the first lot allocation unit is used for determining that a bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the current type lot is the first bin if the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of the current type lot is smaller than or equal to a first quantity aiming at each type of material to be warehoused, wherein the sum of the first quantity and the material storage quantity of the first bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the previous type lot is equal to the upper limit storage quantity of the first bin for storing the type of material to be warehoused; a second batch distribution unit, configured to determine, if the warehousing quantity of the to-be-warehoused materials of the type current batch is greater than the first quantity, that a bin corresponding to each to-be-warehoused material of the type current batch of the first quantity is the first bin, so that the quantity of the type to-be-warehoused materials corresponding to the first bin reaches an upper-limit storage quantity of the type to-be-warehoused materials stored in the first bin; and determining at least one second grid opening as a grid opening corresponding to the rest materials to be warehoused in the current batch of the type according to the difference value between the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused in the current batch of the type and the first quantity, wherein the second grid opening is an idle grid opening of a first material box or an idle grid opening of a second material box corresponding to the first grid opening, and the first material box and the second material box are different material boxes.

Optionally, the cell allocation module 520 further includes:

the third grid distribution unit is used for determining a corresponding material batch and a target material box closest to the target batch from a first type of material box of which a storage shelf is filled with the type of material for each type of material to be put in storage, wherein the material storage quantity of at least one target grid of the first type of material box is smaller than the upper limit storage quantity corresponding to the type, and the arrival time corresponding to the type of target batch is earlier than the arrival time corresponding to other types of batches; and determining the bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the type target batch according to the material storage quantity of at least one target bin of the target bin and the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of the type target batch, wherein the bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the type target batch comprises at least one target bin.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

and the carrying instruction generating module is used for generating a carrying instruction of the target material box so as to carry the target material box to a position corresponding to the material to be put in storage, and at least one material to be put in storage in a target batch is placed in the target material box.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

and the storage position determining module is used for determining the storage positions of the storage shelves corresponding to the material box according to the type of the material to be put in storage and the batch corresponding to each grid opening of the material box filled with the type of the material to be put in storage so as to place the material box on the corresponding storage positions.

The material warehousing device provided by the embodiment of the disclosure can execute the material warehousing method provided by any embodiment of the disclosure, and has the corresponding functional modules and beneficial effects of the execution method.

Fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a material warehousing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, and as shown in fig. 6, the device includes: a bin out determination module 610 and a bin out command generation module 620.

The ex-warehouse bin determining module 610 is configured to determine, for each type of material in an ex-warehouse order, at least one bin to be ex-warehouse from the candidate bins according to the ex-warehouse quantity of the type of material and the batches of the type of material corresponding to each bin of the candidate bins; the delivery instruction generating module 620 is configured to generate a delivery instruction according to the bin position corresponding to the at least one bin to be delivered; the candidate bin is a bin which is stored on a storage shelf and is used for placing the type of materials, the at least one bin to be discharged comprises a first target bin, the first target bin is one of the candidate bins, and the arrival time of the type of materials stored in at least one grid opening of the first target bin is earlier than the arrival time of the type of materials stored in other candidate bins.

Optionally, the bin out determining module 610 includes:

the first relation obtaining unit is used for obtaining a first corresponding relation aiming at each type of material in the outbound order, wherein the first corresponding relation comprises the type and the batch of the material stored in each grid opening of each candidate bin and the quantity of the material in the batch of the type; and the first bin determining unit is used for sequentially determining the candidate bins corresponding to the grids as the bins to be discharged according to the discharging quantity of the types of the materials and the first corresponding relation and the sequence of the arrival time corresponding to the batches of the materials stored in the grids from early to late.

Optionally, the first bin determining unit is specifically configured to:

sorting the grids of each candidate bin in the first corresponding relation according to the sequence of the arrival time corresponding to the batch of the materials stored in the grids from early to late to obtain a first sorting result; and according to the output quantity of the type of materials and the first sequencing result, sequentially determining the candidate bin corresponding to each grid opening as the bin to be output.

Optionally, the bin out determining module 610 includes:

the first relation obtaining unit is used for obtaining a first corresponding relation, wherein the first corresponding relation comprises types and batches of materials stored in each grid opening of each candidate bin and the quantity of the materials of the batches of the types; and the second bin determining unit is used for sequentially determining the bins to be discharged in each candidate bin according to the discharging quantity of the type of materials and the first corresponding relation and the sequence of the first time corresponding to the candidate bin from early to late, wherein the first time is the earliest arrival time in the arrival times corresponding to each batch of the type of materials stored in each grid opening of the candidate bin.

Optionally, the second bin determining unit is specifically configured to:

sorting the candidate workbins according to the sequence of the first time corresponding to the candidate workbins from morning to night to obtain a second sorting result; and according to the output quantity of the types of materials and the second sorting result, sequentially determining each candidate bin as the bin to be output.

The material delivery device provided by the embodiment of the disclosure can execute the material delivery method provided by any embodiment of the disclosure, and has corresponding functional modules and beneficial effects of the execution method.

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a scheduling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, and as shown in fig. 7, the scheduling apparatus includes: memory 710, processor 720, and computer programs.

Wherein the computer program is stored in the memory 710 and configured to be executed by the processor 720 to implement the method provided by any of the embodiments corresponding to fig. 2-4 of the present disclosure.

Wherein the memory 710 and the processor 720 are connected by a bus 730.

The relevant description may be understood by referring to the relevant description and effect corresponding to the steps in fig. 2 to fig. 4, and redundant description is not repeated here.

Fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a warehousing system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, and as shown in fig. 8, the warehousing system includes: spare area 810, warehousing shelves 820, and scheduling equipment 830.

The material warehousing device 830 is the material warehousing device provided in the embodiment shown in fig. 7 of the present disclosure. The storage rack 820 includes a plurality of storage locations, such as storage locations 821-827 in fig. 8, each of which may be used to store one or more bins, and the spare area 810 is used to temporarily store the material to be stored.

In some embodiments, the warehousing system further includes robots, consoles, dumpers, hoists, and the like.

One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a computer-readable storage medium on which a computer program is stored, where the computer program is executed by a processor to implement the method provided by any one of the embodiments corresponding to fig. 2 to fig. 4 of the present disclosure.

The computer readable storage medium may be, among others, ROM, Random Access Memory (RAM), CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical data storage device, and the like.

The present disclosure also provides a program product comprising an executable computer program stored in a readable storage medium. The computer program can be read from a readable storage medium by at least one processor of the dispatching device or the warehousing system, and the computer program is executed by the at least one processor to enable the material warehousing device to implement the material warehousing methods provided by the various embodiments and to enable the material ex-warehouse device to implement the material ex-warehouse methods provided by the various embodiments.

In the several embodiments provided in the present disclosure, it should be understood that the disclosed apparatus and method may be implemented in other ways. For example, the above-described device embodiments are merely illustrative, and for example, the division of the modules is only one logical division, and other divisions may be realized in practice, for example, a plurality of modules may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted, or not executed. In addition, the shown or discussed mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection may be an indirect coupling or communication connection through some interfaces, devices or modules, and may be in an electrical, mechanical or other form.

The modules described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as modules may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the modules may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the present embodiment.

In addition, functional modules in the embodiments of the present disclosure may be integrated into one processing unit, or each module may exist alone physically, or two or more modules are integrated into one unit. The unit formed by the modules can be realized in a hardware form, and can also be realized in a form of hardware and a software functional unit.

The integrated module implemented in the form of a software functional module may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. The software functional module is stored in a storage medium and includes several instructions to enable a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) or a processor (english: processor) to execute some steps of the methods according to the embodiments of the present disclosure.

It should be understood that the Processor may be a Central Processing Unit (CPU), other general purpose Processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), etc. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like. The steps of a method disclosed in connection with the present disclosure may be embodied directly in a hardware processor, or in a combination of the hardware and software modules within the processor.

The memory may comprise a high-speed RAM memory, and may further comprise a non-volatile storage NVM, such as at least one disk memory, and may also be a usb disk, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory, a magnetic or optical disk, etc.

The bus may be an Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus, a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus, an Extended ISA (enhanced Industry Standard Architecture) bus, or the like. The bus may be divided into an address bus, a data bus, a control bus, etc. For ease of illustration, the buses in the figures of the present disclosure are not limited to only one bus or one type of bus.

The storage medium may be implemented by any type or combination of volatile or non-volatile memory devices, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), read-only memory (ROM), magnetic memory, flash memory, magnetic or optical disks. A storage media may be any available media that can be accessed by a general purpose or special purpose computer.

An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor such the processor can read information from, and write information to, the storage medium. Of course, the storage medium may also be integral to the processor. The processor and the storage medium may reside in an Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC). Of course, the processor and the storage medium may reside as discrete components in an electronic device or host device.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will understand that: all or a portion of the steps of implementing the above-described method embodiments may be performed by hardware associated with program instructions. The program may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. When executed, the program performs steps comprising the method embodiments described above; and the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media that can store program codes, such as ROM, RAM, magnetic or optical disks.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used for illustrating the technical solutions of the present disclosure, and not for limiting the same; while the present disclosure has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those of ordinary skill in the art will understand that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some or all of the technical features may be equivalently replaced; and such modifications or substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the corresponding technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. A method for warehousing materials, which is characterized by comprising the following steps:

aiming at each type of material to be put in storage, acquiring the storage quantity of the material to be put in storage of each batch of the type;

for each type of material to be warehoused, distributing bin gates of the bins for the material to be warehoused of each type according to the batch to which the type of material to be warehoused belongs, and if the material storage quantity of a first gate corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the last batch of the current batch of the type is smaller than the upper limit storage quantity corresponding to the type, determining the bin gate corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type according to the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type and the material storage quantity of the first gate so as to enable a gate corresponding to at least one material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type to be the first gate;

and aiming at each type of material to be warehoused, generating a warehousing instruction of the type of material to be warehoused according to the grid of the bin corresponding to each batch of material to be warehoused of the type.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining the bin opening of the bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the current type of lot according to the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of the current type of lot and the material storage quantity of the first bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the previous type of lot comprises:

if the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused of the type current batch is smaller than or equal to a first quantity, determining that a grid corresponding to the materials to be warehoused of the type current batch is the first grid, wherein the sum of the first quantity and the material storage quantity of the first grid corresponding to the materials to be warehoused of the type previous batch is equal to the upper limit storage quantity of the first grid for storing the materials to be warehoused of the type; or the like, or, alternatively,

if the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused of the type current batch is larger than the first quantity, determining a first quantity of grid openings corresponding to the materials to be warehoused of the type current batch as the first grid openings, so that the quantity of the materials to be warehoused of the type corresponding to the first grid openings reaches the upper limit storage quantity of the first grid openings for storing the materials to be warehoused of the type;

and determining at least one second grid opening as a grid opening corresponding to the rest materials to be warehoused in the current batch of the type according to the difference value between the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused in the current batch of the type and the first quantity, wherein the second grid opening is an idle grid opening of a first material box or an idle grid opening of a second material box corresponding to the first grid opening, and the first material box and the second material box are different material boxes.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein allocating a bin slot for the material to be put in storage of the type target lot comprises:

determining a target bin which is closest to the corresponding batch of the materials and the target batch from a first type bin with a storage shelf filled with the materials of the type, wherein the material storage quantity of at least one target grid of the first type bin is smaller than the upper limit storage quantity corresponding to the type, and the arrival time corresponding to the type target batch is earlier than the arrival times corresponding to other batches of the type;

and determining the bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the type target batch according to the material storage quantity of at least one target bin of the target bin and the warehousing quantity of the material to be warehoused of the type target batch, wherein the bin corresponding to the material to be warehoused of the type target batch comprises at least one target bin.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

and generating a carrying instruction of the target material box so as to carry the target material box to a position corresponding to the material to be put in storage, and placing at least one material to be put in storage in a target batch in the target material box.

5. The method according to any one of claims 1-4, further comprising:

according to the type of the material to be put in storage and the batch corresponding to each grid opening of the material box filled with the material to be put in storage, the storage position of the storage shelf corresponding to the material box is determined, so that the material box is placed on the corresponding storage position.

6. A method for discharging materials, which is directed to a warehousing system using the method for warehousing materials as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 5, the method comprising:

determining at least one bin to be delivered from the candidate bins according to the delivery quantity of the type of materials and the batches of the type of materials corresponding to the grids of the candidate bins aiming at each type of materials in the delivery order;

generating a warehouse-out instruction according to the corresponding position of the at least one warehouse bin to be warehoused;

the candidate bin is a bin which is stored on a storage shelf and is used for placing the type of materials, the at least one bin to be discharged comprises a first target bin, the first target bin is one of the candidate bins, and the arrival time of the type of materials stored in at least one grid opening of the first target bin is earlier than the arrival time of the type of materials stored in other candidate bins.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein determining at least one bin to be delivered from the candidate bins based on the number of deliveries of the type of material and the batches of the type of material corresponding to each of the cells of the candidate bins comprises:

acquiring a first corresponding relation, wherein the first corresponding relation comprises types and batches of materials stored in each grid opening of each candidate bin and the quantity of the materials of the batches of the types;

and according to the delivery quantity of the types of materials and the first corresponding relation, sequentially determining the candidate bins corresponding to each grid opening as the bins to be delivered according to the sequence of the arrival time corresponding to the batches of the materials stored in the grid openings from early to late.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein determining the candidate bin corresponding to each bin as the bin to be delivered in turn according to the arrival time corresponding to the lot of the materials stored in the bin from early to late according to the delivery quantity of the types of the materials and the first corresponding relation comprises:

sorting the grids of each candidate bin in the first corresponding relation according to the sequence of the arrival time corresponding to the batch of the materials stored in the grids from early to late to obtain a first sorting result;

and according to the output quantity of the type of materials and the first sequencing result, sequentially determining the candidate bin corresponding to each grid opening as the bin to be output.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein determining at least one bin to be delivered from the candidate bins based on the number of deliveries of the type of material and the batches of the type of material corresponding to each of the cells of the candidate bins comprises:

and according to the ex-warehouse quantity of the type of materials and the first corresponding relation, sequentially determining the candidate bins as the bins to be ex-warehouse according to the sequence of the first time corresponding to the candidate bins from early to late, wherein the first time is the earliest arrival time in the arrival times corresponding to the batches of the type of materials stored in the cells of the candidate bins.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein determining each candidate bin as the bin to be delivered in turn according to the delivery quantity of the type of material and the first correspondence relationship in an order from early to late of the first time corresponding to the candidate bin comprises:

sorting the candidate workbins according to the sequence of the first time corresponding to the candidate workbins from morning to night to obtain a second sorting result;

and according to the output quantity of the types of materials and the second sorting result, sequentially determining each candidate bin as the bin to be output.

11. A material warehousing device, the device comprising:

the warehousing quantity acquisition module is used for acquiring the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused in each batch of each type aiming at each type of the materials to be warehoused;

the bin port distribution module is used for distributing bin ports of the bins for the materials to be warehoused of each type according to the batch to which the materials to be warehoused of the type belong to each type, and if the material storage quantity of a first bin port corresponding to the materials to be warehoused of the last batch of the current batch of the type is smaller than the upper limit storage quantity corresponding to the type, the bin port of the bin corresponding to the materials to be warehoused of the current batch of the type is determined according to the warehousing quantity of the materials to be warehoused of the current batch of the type and the material storage quantity of the first bin port, so that the bin port corresponding to at least one material to be warehoused of the current batch of the type is the first bin port;

and the warehousing instruction generating module is used for generating warehousing instructions of the types of materials to be warehoused according to the grids of the bins corresponding to the types of the materials to be warehoused in each batch.

12. A material delivery apparatus, for a warehousing system using the material warehousing method of any one of claims 1 to 5, the apparatus comprising:

the ex-warehouse bin determining module is used for determining at least one bin to be ex-warehouse from the candidate bins according to the ex-warehouse quantity of the type of materials and the batches of the type of materials corresponding to the grids of the candidate bins aiming at each type of materials in the ex-warehouse order;

the warehouse-out instruction generating module is used for generating a warehouse-out instruction according to the corresponding position of the at least one bin to be warehoused;

13. A scheduling apparatus, comprising:

a memory and at least one processor;

the memory stores computer-executable instructions;

the at least one processor executing the computer-executable instructions stored by the memory causes the at least one processor to perform the method of any one of claims 1-10.

14. A warehousing system, comprising: a storage shelf and the scheduling apparatus of claim 13;

wherein the storage shelf comprises a plurality of storage positions, and each storage position can be used for storing at least one bin.

15. A computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, implement the method of any one of claims 1-10.

16. A computer program product comprising a computer program, characterized in that the computer program realizes the method according to any of claims 1-10 when executed by a processor.