JPH11165815A - Warehouse control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prepare an exact shipment instruction compatible to stock data in realtime by displaying a stock display screen and a shipment instruction screen on a display of a control terminal and correcting erroneous shipment instruction data, watching the stock display screen. SOLUTION: A control terminal 1 is constituted of a keyboard 2, a display 3 and a control part 4. On the display 3, a shipment instruction screen 1A for a shipment job, a stock display screen 1B and an OK button 1C to be clicked after a prescribed operation is terminated are displayed. The control part 4 is connected with a transmitter 7 and shipment instruction data is transmitted to a terminal 10 that a worker 20 monitors. As for shipment instruction data prepared at the time of receiving orders of articles, a shipment instruction is prepared by remaining the content of shipment instruction data as it is. Just before a work actually picking up articles from a warehouse, the shipment instruction is issued after shipment instruction data is adjusted and is corrected on the display 3.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a warehouse management system for optimizing the contents of shipping instructions and facilitating shipping operations when shipping goods stored in a warehouse.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When picking up and delivering goods stored in a warehouse in accordance with a customer's order or the like, an instruction manual for picking up the relevant goods from the warehouse is created. In the instruction sheet, the name, the number, and the like of the product are recorded. In general, when a product with an old date of manufacture and a new product are stored in a mixed state, the product with the old date of manufacture is picked up and shipped first. This is called first-in first-out management.

[0003] In particular, for goods such as foods, the value of which decreases over time, it is important to clarify the items to be picked up by such shipping instructions. Therefore, in a system for managing products stored in a warehouse using a computer or the like, a method of designating and distributing a product name and a date of manufacture along with a product name and a product quantity is adopted.

[0004]

However, the above-mentioned prior art has the following problems to be solved.
The goods stored in the warehouse constantly fluctuate rapidly due to shipping work and carry-in work. The stock information is taken into the stock management system in real time as much as possible, and the contents are displayed on a management terminal or the like.
However, a shipping instruction for shipping a product is created based on stock information at the time of receiving an order from a customer.

[0005] Therefore, when actually picking up the corresponding product from the warehouse, there may be a case where the product of the corresponding manufacturing date has already been shipped. In such a case, it is necessary to rewrite the shipping instruction, and the shipping operation becomes complicated.

[0006]

The present invention employs the following structure to solve the above problems. <Structure 1> Shipping instruction screen created for shipping instruction and showing attribute data including the name of the product that specifies the product to be shipped, and attribute data including the name of the product actually stored in the warehouse , A pointing device for specifying an operation target on the screen displayed on the display, attribute data of each product specified in the shipping instruction screen, and the inventory display screen When the attribute data of the corresponding product shown in the table is different, the attribute data of the product specified in the stock display screen by the pointing device is changed to the attribute data of the corresponding product in the shipping instruction screen. And a control unit for generating shipping instruction data for shipping instructions.

<Structure 2> In the system described in Structure 1, the control unit generates shipping instruction data, and transmits the shipping instruction data to a terminal monitored by a worker who picks up goods in a warehouse and displays it. A warehouse management system characterized in that:

<Structure 3> In the system described in Structure 1 or 2, when the corresponding product is picked up in the warehouse in accordance with the shipping instruction data, the control unit tallies up the pickup information recognized each time and sends the shipping instruction. A warehouse management system for collating with data and outputting the collation result.

<Structure 4> When the inside of a warehouse is divided by an arbitrary number of locations of an arbitrary size for storing merchandise, attribute data of the merchandise stored in the location is stored for each location. A display for displaying the storage status display screen shown, a pointing device for specifying the operation target on the screen displayed on the display, and when the source and destination of the product are specified by the pointing device, the corresponding location is displayed. A warehouse management system comprising a control unit for changing attribute data and generating location movement data.

<Structure 5> In the system described in Structure 4, the control unit generates location movement data, and transmits the location movement data to a terminal monitored by a worker who manages products in a warehouse and displays the data. A warehouse management system characterized by:

<Structure 6> In the system described in Structure 4 or 5, when the corresponding product is moved in the warehouse in accordance with the location movement data, the control unit compiles movement information recognized during the work, and A warehouse management system for collating with location movement data and outputting the collation result.

[0012]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below using specific examples. <Example 1> FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a specific example of a warehouse management system of the present invention. In this system, the management terminal 1 is used to instruct shipping of a product stored in a warehouse (not shown). The management terminal 1 includes a keyboard 2, a display 3, and a control unit 4. A pointing device 5 such as a mouse is provided for performing various operations on the screen displayed on the display 3. Control unit 4
Is a main body of a well-known personal computer or the like, in which various arithmetic processing functions such as a CPU (central processing unit), a main storage device, and a hard disk drive are incorporated.

An image of the storage device 6 is shown on the left side of FIG. Actually, the storage device 6 is constituted by a hard disk or the like built in the control unit 4 or externally attached. The storage device 6 stores inventory data 6A, shipping instruction data 6B, and the like. These are all configured by, for example, a part of a relational database. The display 3 includes a shipping instruction screen 1A for shipping business and a stock display screen 1B.
And an OK button 1C to be clicked after the end of the predetermined operation. The contents of these screens will be described later.

Further, a transmitter 7 is connected to the control unit 4,
The configuration is such that shipping instruction data is transmitted using the antenna 8. This shipping instruction data is transmitted to the terminal 10 monitored by the worker 20. The terminal 10 has an antenna 1
1, a receiver 12, a printer 13 and the like are provided. The shipping instruction data received using the antenna 11 and the receiver 12 is printed using the printer 13. Then, a shipping instruction 14 is issued. The worker 20 picks up the relevant product from the warehouse and ships the product while looking at the shipping instruction 14.

FIG. 2 shows a specific example of the shipping instruction screen 1A and the stock display screen 1B. (A) before the drag operation,
(B) shows the state after the drag operation. Drag is
This is an operation to specify the start point by pressing the mouse button, move the pointer as it is, release the mouse button, and specify the end point. In the present invention, first, a shipping instruction screen 1A based on shipping instruction data created when an order is received is prepared. If the shipping instruction data created at the time of ordering the goods is used as it is to create the shipping instruction, there is also a problem that there is no stock of the corresponding product when actually performing the shipping operation. Therefore, immediately before the operation of actually picking up the goods from the warehouse, a screen as shown in this figure is displayed, and the shipping instruction data is issued after adjusting and correcting the shipping instruction data.

The stock display screen 1B is generated based on stock data 6A (FIG. 1) indicating the contents of commodities stored in the warehouse in real time. On the shipping instruction screen 1A, attribute data including contents such as a predetermined destination name and the product name, quantity, and date of manufacture of the target product to be shipped are displayed. In the present invention,
In this way, the related data regarding the product is called attribute data. This attribute data includes product name, quantity, date of manufacture,
Other various contents are also included. However, since what is required for the shipping instruction is the product name, quantity, and manufacturing date shown here, the display of other attribute data is omitted.

The attribute data 2B of the corresponding product shown on the stock display screen 1B is displayed in exactly the same format as the shipping instruction screen 1A. The inventory data 6A shown in FIG. 1 includes other information, but does not need to be displayed here. Therefore, the attribute data of the inventory product is displayed in exactly the same form as the shipping instruction screen 1A.

For example, the shipping instruction screen 1 shown in FIG.
A is required to pick up a product having a product name of “AAAAA” with a quantity of 100 and a production date of June 1996. However, as shown in the stock display screen 1B, the corresponding product “AAAAA” has a production date of 1997
Only 160 lunar items are stored. That is,
Those with a date of manufacture older than this are considered already shipped.

In such a case, the pointer 9 is moved to a position indicating the corresponding product on the stock display screen 1B displayed on the display 3 using the pointing device 5 shown in FIG. Then, the pointer 9 is moved to the shipping instruction screen 1A while holding down the button of the pointing device 5. Such an operation is called a drag, and the drag operation causes the product “AAAAA” on the stock display screen 1B and the product “AAA” on the shipping instruction screen 1A to be dragged.
AA "is designated as the operation target.

When the product is designated in this way, the control unit 4 shown in FIG. 1 overwrites the attribute data of the stock display screen 1B with the attribute data of the corresponding product on the shipping instruction screen 1A except for the quantity. I do. That is, the attribute data of the corresponding product on the shipping instruction screen 1A is rewritten. Thereby, as shown in FIG. 2B, the product name “A” on the shipping instruction screen 1A is displayed.
The amount of “AAAAA” is assumed to be 100 as it is, and the date of manufacture changes to a content that is actually in stock in February 1997. In this way, the attribute data, that is, the shipping instruction data in which the manufacturing date is rewritten here, is newly stored in the storage device 6 shown in FIG. Thus, the shipping instruction 14 having the same contents as the shipping instruction screen 1A shown in FIG. 2B is output from the printer 13 as shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of an example of an operation screen in a case different from FIG. FIG. 7A shows a shipping instruction screen 1A and a stock display screen 1 based on initial shipping instruction data.
B. In this case, the content of the shipping instruction is
200 products of "BBBBBB", expiration date 1997 year 1
They are requesting shipments for January. However,
The actual stock is displayed as the product “B” as shown on the stock display screen 1B.
There are only 100 BBBBs with a shelf life of November 1997. In addition, the expiration date is 98 for the same product.
200 items from August are stored.

In such a case, when a product on the stock display screen 1B is designated by the pointer 9 in the manner already described, and is dragged to be superimposed on the corresponding product on the shipping instruction screen 1A, as shown in FIG. As shown in ()), the contents of the shipping instruction screen are corrected by the quantity of the actual stock. That is, of the attribute data, the portion corresponding to the quantity of the product is rewritten in the shipping instruction screen and replaced with the one on the stock display screen.

In this case, the product “BBBBBB” is 1
00 shortage. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 3C, the same product with a different expiration date is designated and dragged to the shipping instruction screen 1A. In this case, since the shipment instruction screen 1A is a relevant product and does not have a description of the corresponding expiration date, the user drags a blank area to display the stock display screen 1B.
Copy the entire contents of Thereafter, the quantity 200 of the product in the copied attribute data is rewritten to 100 so as to match the initial total quantity 200.

That is, from the state shown in FIG.
By rewriting to the state shown in (d), correct shipping instruction data is created. This rewriting is performed by the operator who operates the management terminal 1. It should be noted that the quantity indicated by the initial shipping instruction data is stored in advance, and the quantity is calculated so as to automatically rewrite the quantity when the drag operation shown in FIG. 3C is performed. Procedure may be used.

The above-described processing is executed by a program stored in the control unit 4. The product displayed on the stock display screen 1B is designated, dragged and displayed on the shipping instruction screen, and the operation of rewriting the contents of the data itself is performed using a widely used window of a personal computer or the like. Similarly to the above, it can be easily realized by a general program module. Therefore, the description of the specific steps of the program and the structure of the database will be omitted.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of the pickup operation confirmation processing. The procedure for issuing the shipping instruction as described above and evaluating the result of shipping performed by the worker based on the contents will be described with reference to FIG. In the figure, commodities 22 are stacked on a shelf 21 shown at the upper left of the figure. This shelf 21 is attached to a wall surface of a warehouse or the like,
The pickup of the product is performed by, for example, a forklift. In addition, there is also one which is manually performed. This operation is the process of step S1.

Next, the bar code 24 attached to the side face of the picked-up product 23 is scanned by the scanner 25 (step S2). In the barcode 24, the product name of the product and other attribute data are written. When the content is read using the scanner 25, the read data is transmitted to the management terminal 1 shown in FIG. 1 as pickup information.

In the management terminal 1, in step S3,
By totalizing the received pickup information, for example, data indicating that 100 items of “AAAAA” have been picked up is created. Then, the content comparison between the already picked-up result value and the already described shipping instruction data 6B is performed. That is, the contents designated by the shipping instruction and the contents actually picked up are compared (step S4). The result is output by a printer or the like (not shown) connected to the management terminal 1 (step S5). The output of the collation result may be displayed on the display 3 of the management terminal 1 in addition to being displayed on the printer.

<Effect of Specific Example 1> According to the warehouse management system described above, shipping instruction data in which a part of attribute data is erroneous can be automatically corrected while looking at the inventory display screen on the display. Accurate shipping instructions that match the relevant inventory data are quickly created. Also, by recognizing and feeding back the thus picked-up merchandise and collating it with the shipping instruction data, it is possible to accurately determine whether or not the merchandise has been successfully shipped.

<Embodiment 2> FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a warehouse management system according to Embodiment 2. As described above, by dragging the attribute information of the product on the screen, the product can be moved in the warehouse in addition to the shipping process. FIG.
Has a configuration similar to that of the device shown in FIG. 1, and the display 3 displays a storage status display screen 1C. The storage device 6 stores location data 6C and location movement data 6D.

The interior of the warehouse is divided into locations of a predetermined size. That is, for example, when the warehouse is partitioned by vertically assembled shelves, each shelf is numbered, and each is called a location, and data such as where each product is stored is stored. I have. That data is the location data 6C. Here, using the storage state display screen 1 </ b> C displayed on the display 3, a moving operation of moving a product stored in a certain location to another location is performed. The contents of this movement operation are stored in the storage device 6 as location movement data 6D.

This data is data that is deleted after the actual product movement is completed. This location movement data 6D is transmitted to the terminal 10 monitored by the worker 20 through the transmitter 7, as in the first embodiment. Then, the contents are printed out by the printer 13 as the movement instruction 15. The worker 20 moves the goods using a forklift or the like while viewing the movement instruction sheet 15.

FIG. 6 is a view for explaining a product moving operation at the time of placing on a shelf. As shown, the display 3 shown in FIG.
Displays a storage state display screen 1C during the moving operation. The storage state display screen 1C shows a state where, for example, a product is stored in a rack. Each rack area partitioned by the lattice 30 shown in the figure is one location. The merchandise is stored in each location, and the storage state display screen 1C displays what percentage of the merchandise is stored in each location.

That is, the product is stored in the upper left location by the volume of 50%. Therefore,
It turns out that the product of 50% of the volume can be stored. The second location from the left, at the top, contains 100 percent of the merchandise. The third location from the left also holds 20 percent of the merchandise. Here, it is assumed that the pointer 9 is moved and a predetermined location is designated and clicked. In this case, the product list 1D stored at the location is displayed. In the product list 1D, the product name, the quantity of the product, and the volume of the stored product are displayed.

The administrator checks the storage state of the product while looking at such a screen, and considers moving the product. Product movement is
This is performed for various purposes, such as bringing in a new product or collecting similar products in one place. There is also a rearrangement for first-in first-out management. Shipment of goods is processing for moving goods out of the warehouse. In this specific example, the present invention is applied to a process of moving a product to another location in a warehouse.

For example, in the third location from the left at the top of the storage status display screen 1C shown in FIG.
Although the merchandise is stored in a percentage volume, an operation of moving all the merchandise to the top left shelf is performed. At this time, as shown in (b) of the figure, the cursor is moved to the position of the location 32 by dragging the corresponding location 31 in a state where it is designated by the pointer 9 in advance. By performing such an operation, the product stored in the location 31 on the screen is taken out,
Move to the location 32 and rewrite the data so far.

That is, rewriting is performed from the 50% state to the 70% state. In this way, it is possible to freely move and arrange products on the screen. Even if you move the item on the screen in this way, the actual item is still at the old location in the warehouse. Therefore, the content of the operation to be moved in this way is stored in the location movement data 6D shown in FIG. Then, the content of the location movement data 6D becomes the movement instruction 15 and is used for the actual movement work.

The movement of the goods stacked on the shelf is operated as shown in FIG. On the other hand, it is also possible to provide an appropriate partition on the floor surface to manage the goods at each location. FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of the product moving operation at the time of flat placing. In this case, the storage status display screen 1 is displayed on the display.
E is displayed. This screen 1E is also partitioned by the grid 30, and each location has X1
Area numbers are assigned such as 1, X21, X31,... X44. In the case of shelf storage shown in FIG. 6, each shelf is similarly assigned a location number, but the description is omitted.

Here, for example, it is assumed that the pointer 9 is moved to the location X24 and clicked. In this case, as described above, the product list 1F is displayed. Here, it can be seen that, for example, 10 products A1 and 20 products A2 are stored in the location X24.
Here, in the example shown in FIG. 6, an instruction was given to move all the products placed on the shelf to another shelf. On the other hand, in the example of FIG. 7, for example, a product list 1F is displayed, and a specific product displayed in the product list is designated by the pointer 9 and moved to another location. In this way, it is possible to move the product.

In both the cases of FIG. 6 and FIG. 7, the attribute data of the source product specified by the pointer is included in the attribute data of the destination product, and is added or additionally entered. The processing updates the location data 6C. Location movement data 6D
Is a content such as how many specific products move from which location to which location.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of a commodity moving procedure using such an instruction sheet and its confirmation processing. For example, shelf 21
It is assumed that the product 22 is stored in A. At this time,
The merchandise 22 is moved to another shelf 21B according to the contents of the movement instruction 15 (step S1). When this operation is performed, the barcode 24 attached to the side surface of the product 23 to be moved is scanned and read by the scanner 25. When scanning is performed with the product 23 placed on the shelf 21A, and after scanning, scanning is performed with the product 23 placed on the shelf 21B, it is possible to obtain movement information indicating that the product has moved from which shelf to which shelf.

When it is not possible to move a product from one shelf to another at once, the product is moved several times. Then, these movement results are totaled. 25A shown in the figure is a product list on the source shelf, and 25B is a product list on the destination shelf. This is compared with the location movement data 6D or the location data 6C shown in FIG. This makes it possible to determine whether or not the processing has been correctly executed based on the location movement instruction. The procedure and contents of these determinations are the same as in the first embodiment.

<Effect of Specific Example 2> Specific Example 2 described above
According to the system, the storage status display screen is displayed on the display, the product is moved on the screen while looking at the location where the product is stored, the result is stored in the location movement data 6D, and the transfer instruction is written. So, when reviewing the state of storing goods in the warehouse, and at other times,
It is possible to easily carry out a product transfer plan. And
The result is immediately transmitted to the operator, and the moving operation can be started. In addition, since the result of the moving operation can be collated, reliable warehouse management can be performed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a warehouse management system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram (part 1) of an operation screen.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram (part 2) of the operation screen.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a pickup work confirmation process.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a warehouse management system of a specific example 2.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a product moving operation at the time of placing on a shelf.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a product moving operation at the time of flat placing.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of a product movement confirmation process.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 management terminal 1A shipping instruction screen 1B stock display screen 2 keyboard 3 display 5 pointing device 6 storage device 7 transmitter 10 terminal 13 printer 20 worker

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A shipping instruction screen, which is created for a shipping instruction and includes attribute data including a product name for specifying a product to be shipped, and an attribute including the name of a product actually stored in a warehouse. A display for displaying a stock display screen showing data; a pointing device for specifying an operation target on the screen displayed on the display; attribute data of each product specified in the shipping instruction screen; and the stock display When the attribute data of the corresponding product shown in the screen is different, for the product specified in the stock display screen by the pointing device,
A warehouse management system comprising: a control unit that replaces the attribute data with attribute data of a corresponding product on the shipping instruction screen and generates shipping instruction data for a shipping instruction. 2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the control unit generates shipping instruction data, and transmits and displays the shipping instruction data to a terminal monitored by a worker who picks up goods in a warehouse. A warehouse management system. 3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the controller collects pickup information recognized each time the corresponding product is picked up in the warehouse according to the shipping instruction data, and collects the shipping instruction data. A warehouse management system characterized by collating with and outputting the collation result. 4. When the inside of a warehouse is divided by an arbitrary number of locations of an arbitrary size for storing merchandise, storage indicating attribute data of the merchandise stored in the location for each location. A display for displaying a status display screen; a pointing device for specifying an operation target on the screen displayed on the display; and attribute data of a corresponding location when a source and a destination of a product are specified by the pointing device. And a control unit for generating location movement data. 5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the control unit generates location movement data, and transmits the location movement data to a terminal monitored by a worker who manages goods in a warehouse and displays the data. A warehouse management system characterized in that: 6. The system according to claim 4, wherein the control unit, when moving the corresponding product in the warehouse in accordance with the location movement data, totals movement information recognized during the work, and calculates the location information. A warehouse management system for collating with movement data and outputting the collation result.