JP2001048319A - Shipping control device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a shipping control device for making a total waiting time optimum for a motor truck arriving at a shipping gate, while fully operating a forklift truck and workers. SOLUTION: A shipping control device for discharging articles from a warehouse according to a shipping directive, and for scheduling a cargo handling facility and workers in loading the articles onto designated carrying equipments is provided with a means 20 for alloting loading a pallet loaded with the articles by using the facility onto the equipments based on the directive, a means 22 for discharging the articles from the warehouse by using the facility based on the directive, to allot loading the articles in bulk onto the equipments by using the workers, a means 12 for registering the arrival condition of the equipments, and a division alternately shipping allotment part 42 for dividing the allotment of the facility in work for loading the articles in bulk onto the equipment, to insert pallet loading to the equipment.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] The present invention relates to trucks, wagons,
The present invention relates to an exit management device capable of efficiently exiting when a pallet loading and unloading of cargo are used in combination for a transport organization such as an aircraft or a ship.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 3 is an explanatory view of a conventional work for unloading from a warehouse. Factory warehouses and distribution center warehouses are known as warehouses. The distribution center warehouse is provided by large-scale manufacturers, transporters, wholesalers, large-scale retailers, and the like. Here, truck transportation will be described as an example.
The goods conveyed by the truck are unloaded and loaded by a driver or an operator at a cargo handling place, and the goods are stored on a warehouse shelf by a forklift. The warehouse shelves are loaded and unloaded in units of pallets, and articles loaded with pallets are carried into a predetermined address (row, row, step) of the warehouse shelves by a forklift and a loading / unloading conveyor. In loading and shipping, articles stored in a flat place or a warehouse shelf are separated into trucks at destinations at a cargo handling place, and loaded into a truck at a delivery gate. The truck transports the goods to the demand destination after the loading is completed.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a delivery slip. In the delivery slip, 300C / S of goods A, 240C / S of goods B, and 300C / S of goods C are delivered to the truck of car number 1, and 600C / S of goods D and B of goods B to the truck of car number 2. 24
It is described that 0C / S will be delivered. Where C / S
Indicates a delivery unit, for example, a packaging unit or a sales unit.

FIGS. 5A and 5B are explanatory diagrams of a loading mode of articles on a truck, wherein FIG. 5A shows loading on a pallet and FIG. In the pallet loading, the articles loaded on the pallet by the forklift are unloaded from the warehouse shelves and loaded on the truck with the pallet loaded, so that the loading on the truck is completed in a short time. On the other hand, unloading is loading onto a truck in a manner to increase the loading efficiency of the truck. In unloading, a palletized article is carried out of a warehouse shelf by a forklift, and the pallet is placed at a cargo handling area. In a cargo handling area, an operator separates articles loaded on a pallet into packing units and manually loads the articles on a truck. For this reason, there is a problem in that bulk loading requires more time for loading than pallet loading.

[0005] FIG. 6 is a time chart showing the work procedure of normal delivery. The truck with car number 1 is loaded by hand. First, from time 0 to 20 minutes, all the pallets for loading the truck No. 1 are discharged from the warehouse rack by the forklift and placed in the cargo handling area. Next, from time 0 minutes to 60 minutes, the operator takes out individual packages from the pallets placed in the cargo handling area, and unloads them on the truck of car number 1 and loads them.

[0006] The truck of car number 2 takes 40 minutes from 40 minutes.
Pallet loading is performed for up to a minute. That is, all the pallets for loading the truck number 2 are discharged from the warehouse rack by the forklift, and the pallets are directly loaded on the truck number 2. The truck of car number 3 is loaded on the pallet from time 40 to 60 minutes.

[0007] According to the normal leaving work procedure shown in FIG.
For trucks. The operator is loading the truck for car number 1 from time 0 to 60 minutes. The truck with car number 1 arrives at the exit gate before time 0 minutes and can depart after time 20 minutes. Similarly, truck number 2 arrives at the exit gate before time 20 minutes and can depart after time 40 minutes. Also, the truck with car number 3 arrives at the exit gate before time 40 minutes and can depart after time 60 minutes.

[0008]

However, there are three tracks.
If the vehicles arrive at the exit gate at the same time, there is a problem that the waiting time of the truck arriving later becomes longer. That is, in the example of FIG.
Waiting 0 minutes, truck number 3 had to wait 40 minutes before loading. An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide a delivery management device that optimizes the total waiting time of a truck arriving at a delivery gate while fully operating a forklift and a worker.

[0009]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a delivery management apparatus for discharging goods from a warehouse in accordance with a delivery instruction and loading the goods into a designated transport device. Means for allocating a palletized loading of the articles using the cargo handling equipment to the transport equipment based on the delivery instruction, and the loading / unloading equipment based on the delivery instruction. Means for discharging the article from the warehouse using the operator and assigning the loading and unloading to the transport equipment using the worker, means for registering the arrival status of the transport equipment, and work for loading and unloading the transport equipment A divided alternate delivery allocating unit that divides the allocation of the cargo handling equipment in the above and inserts the pallet loading to the transport equipment. To have.

[0010] Here, the article refers to a product, a product, a work in process,
Raw materials, etc. The cargo handling equipment is equipment such as forklifts, conveyors, cranes, etc., which transports goods from a warehouse to transport equipment. Transportation equipment refers to trucks, ships, wagons, containers, and aircraft that transport loaded goods from a departure place to a destination.

[0011] In the warehouse management apparatus configured as described above, pallet loading and unloading are determined based on the arriving transport equipment and the shipping instruction. Unloading includes work by cargo handling equipment and work by an operator, and takes longer to load than pallet loading.
Therefore, when the work by the cargo handling equipment for unloading and loading is divided and inserted by unloading by the split alternate delivery allocation unit, the working time of the loading and unloading equipment and the worker do not change, but the waiting time of the transport equipment for loading pallets is reduced. Help me.

[0012] Preferably, as set forth in claim 2, when the work of the cargo handling equipment and the work of the worker is allocated so that the loading of the pallets and the loading of the unloading are performed in parallel, a large capital investment is required. The operation of the cargo handling equipment and the work by highly flexible workers are performed in parallel, and the waiting time of the transport equipment is reduced.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the divided alternate delivery allocating unit divides the discharge operation of the cargo handling equipment in the unloading and loading into two or more units of the transport equipment of one unit, and performs the division. The transport equipment 1 during the discharging operation
When the configuration is such that the pallet loading is inserted into the unit, the dividing rule of the bulk loading is simplified, and the scheduling can be easily performed.

[0014]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a configuration block diagram illustrating an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, the delivery slip data 10 corresponds to the delivery slip described above, and specifies the type and quantity of articles to be loaded on the arriving truck. Preferably, the delivery slip data 10 includes a shipping destination,
Delivery date and transportation insurance amount should be described together. The arrival track registration unit 12 registers which track of the delivery yard will arrive at which track. Trucks are classified into regular flights and irregular flights.For regular flights, for example, the transportation route is determined in advance, such as from a factory to a distribution center warehouse in each location, and the temporary delivery and regular flights, such as irregular flights. Some are suitable for transportation when the distribution quantity is insufficient.

The pallet loading allocating section 20 represents articles and trucks to be palletized. Pallet loading is suitable for loading large quantities of small items. The unloading assignment unit 22 indicates the articles and trucks to be unloaded. Unloading is suitable for loading many kinds of small articles. The cargo handling equipment operation database 30 records the operating status of the cargo handling equipment in its own warehouse. Worker labor database 32
Records the employment status of the workers in the own warehouse, and records the employment status of the workers in charge of unloading and loading here. The truck waiting time database 34 records the total waiting time from arrival of a truck to departure in the own warehouse.

The outgoing work scheduling section 40 performs scheduling for loading articles on the arrival truck in accordance with the outgoing slip data 10. Scheduling is
At first, the arrival truck separates whether to load pallets or unload. Next, the pallet loading and unloading loading are scheduled with reference to the cargo handling equipment operation database 30 so that the cargo handling equipment always operates at full load. Subsequently, the loading / unloading is scheduled with reference to the worker labor database 32 so that the worker does not play. Finally, with reference to the truck waiting time database 34, an adjustment is made to prevent the waiting time for pallet loading from becoming unnecessarily long because the unloading was first loaded. In the unloading work scheduling section 40, when pallet loading or unloading is designated for one truck, scheduling is performed so that the truck is fully loaded until loading is completed, and unnecessarily parallel to a plurality of trucks is performed. To prevent the loading operation from being performed.

The divided alternate delivery assignment section 42 corrects the assignment in the delivery work scheduling section 40, divides the assignment of the cargo handling equipment in the unloading operation to the truck, and inserts the pallet loading to the truck. As a result, the waiting time of the truck for pallet loading is reduced while the waiting time of the truck for unloading is maintained.

The operation of the apparatus having the above-described structure will be described below. FIG. 2 is a scheduling diagram in the case of divided delivery that specifically implements the present invention, and shows a case where the present invention is applied to FIG. 6 described above. The truck with car number 1 is loaded by hand. First, by the forklift, half of the pallets for loading the truck No. 1 are discharged from the warehouse shelf by the divided alternate delivery allocating unit 42 for a time period from 0 minute to 10 minutes, and the pallets are placed in the cargo handling area. Next, from time 0 minutes to 30 minutes, the operator takes out individual packages from the pallets placed at the cargo handling area and unloads them on the truck of car No. 1 and loads them. Subsequently, the remaining half of the pallet for loading the truck No. 1 is discharged from the warehouse rack by the forklift for a period of time from 30 minutes to 40 minutes, and is placed in the cargo handling area. And from time 30 minutes to 60 minutes,
An operator takes out individual packages from the pallets placed at the cargo handling area, and unloads them on the truck of car number 1 and loads them. Accordingly, the unloading work scheduling unit 40 can schedule the unloading and loading so that the worker does not play during the time 0 to 60 minutes.

The divided alternate delivery allocation section 42 schedules the loading of the pallet for the truck with the car number 2 from 10 minutes to 30 minutes. That is, the forklift is fully operated to load the pallets on the trucks of the car Nos. 1 and 2 from the time 0 to the time 40 by the delivery work scheduling unit 40 and the divided alternate delivery allocation unit 42. Since the loading of the truck with the car number 2 is completed in 30 minutes, the truck can depart 10 minutes earlier than in the case of FIG.
The truck of car number 3 is a schedule in which pallet loading is performed from time 40 minutes to time 60 minutes as in FIG.

In the above-described embodiment, the case where the divided alternate delivery allocating unit 42 divides the bulk loading into two and schedules the pallet loading during the bulk loading is shown, but the present invention is not limited to this. Not something
If the truck loading time of the worker is longer than the discharge time of the cargo handling equipment in the unloading, the unloading may be divided into three or more and the pallet may be loaded in between.

[0021]

As described above, in the delivery management apparatus according to the first aspect, the work by the loading / unloading equipment is divided by the divided alternate delivery allocating unit, and the separation loading is inserted. Although the working hours of the cargo handling equipment and the workers do not change, there is an effect that the waiting time of the transport equipment for loading the pallets can be reduced and the shipping efficiency can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration block diagram illustrating an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a scheduling diagram for a divided delivery that specifically implements the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view of a conventional work of unloading from a warehouse.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a delivery slip.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of a mode of loading articles into a truck.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a delivery slip.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Delivery slip data 12 Arrival truck registration unit (means for registering the arrival status of transport equipment) 20 Pallet loading assignment unit (Means for assigning pallet loading) 22 Unloading assignment unit (Means for assigning unloading loading) 30 Handling equipment operation database 32 Worker labor database 34 Truck waiting time database 40 Outgoing work scheduling section 42 Split alternate outgoing allocating section

Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Masayuki Sato 1-3-7 Honjo, Sumida-ku, Tokyo Inside Lion Distribution Service Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Koji Kawazu 1-3-7, Honjo, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 3F022 AA15 EE02 LL05 MM13 MM35 MM42 5B049 BB31 CC21 CC27 CC32 EE05

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A delivery management apparatus for performing scheduling of a cargo handling facility and an operator when discharging articles from a warehouse in accordance with a delivery instruction and loading the goods into a designated transportation device, wherein the transportation device is controlled based on the delivery instruction. Means for assigning a pallet load loaded with the article using the cargo handling equipment, and discharging the article from the warehouse using the cargo handling equipment based on the unloading instruction, and using the worker to transfer the equipment using the worker. Means for assigning unloading loading, means for registering the arrival status of the transport equipment, and dividing the assignment of the cargo handling equipment in the unloading work for the transport equipment to insert the pallet loading for the transport equipment. A delivery management device, comprising: a split alternate delivery assignment unit; 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the divided alternate delivery assignment unit assigns the work of the cargo handling equipment and the worker so that the pallet loading and the unloading loading are performed in parallel. Outbound management device. 3. The divided alternate delivery allocating unit divides a discharge operation of the cargo handling equipment in the unloading and loading into two or more for one unit of the transport device, and performs the transport device 1 during the divided discharge operation. The delivery management device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the pallet loading for a unit is inserted.