KR20210116975A - Automatic logistics management system and method - Google Patents

Abstract

An automated logistics management method in accordance with the present invention comprises: a first step of allowing a product classification apparatus to identify an information tag attached to a warehoused product, to classify a corresponding product into any one of a release target, a tenant company transfer target and a warehouse stacking target, and to transmit the classification result to a central management server, wherein the information tag includes tenant company identification information and product identification information; a second step of allowing the central management server to determine any one sector in a stacking space corresponding to the tenant company identification information in which the product is to be stacked on the basis of the tenant company identification information and the product identification information included in the information tag with respect to the product which is the warehouse stacking target as the classification result; a third step of allowing a first conveyor apparatus to transfer the product, which is the warehouse stacking target, to the stacking space corresponding to the tenant company identification information, then allowing a second conveyor apparatus to transfer the transferred product to the sector determined by the central management server and stacking the product at the determined sector; a fourth step of allowing the central management server to receive a delivery request including the product identification information and quantity information from a tenant company terminal; a fifth step of allowing the central management server to request the products corresponding to the received delivery request by a corresponding quantity among the products stacked in the warehouse and allowing the first conveyor apparatus and the second conveyor apparatus to transfer the products to the product classification apparatus; and a sixth step of allowing the product classification apparatus to transfer the transferred products to a tenant company or a release and collection site The present invention can automate product transportation and warehouse management while minimizing steps consumed in product delivery.

Description

How to create and operate a logistics and distribution management computerized system {AUTOMATIC LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD}

The present invention relates to an automated logistics management system and method, and more particularly, to a logistics management system and method that can provide a common logistics and warehouse service to multiple tenants moving in a single building.

The conventional logistics system is made through a total of five steps as follows.

When the sender requests the delivery of baggage from the logistics company, the first shipping office visits the shipping station at the logistics company located in a short distance, and secondly, it collects the baggage and transports the baggage to the first shipping office. Thirdly, the baggage collected at the primary drop-off point is transported to the hub terminal, which is made up of a regional unit compared to the drop-off point. The hub terminal checks the destination information, classifies the baggage by destination, and transports the baggage to the secondary collection point in each destination. After that, the 5th process of transporting the baggage from the 2nd collection point to each destination is performed.

Recently, as consumers' purchases are made far from actual goods such as home shopping and online shopping, the number of consumers who use logistics services in small quantities is increasing day by day.

The domestic logistics system has no choice but to use land transportation means such as freight vehicles for luggage, and as described above, the five-step movement process is essential, which inevitably causes fuel wastage and environmental pollution. In addition, in order to reduce such a movement process, when a plurality of hub terminals are installed in a narrower unit, there is a problem in that the logistics cost increases because baggage must be moved in small units.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that sell products online require enormous costs, such as the cost to store the manufactured goods in the warehouse and the logistics cost with a complex structure as described above. is becoming an issue.

An object of the present invention is to provide an office, product delivery and warehouse service for a plurality of tenants located in one building, while minimizing the steps required for product delivery and providing automated product transportation and warehouse management. To provide an automated logistics management system and method.

According to the present invention, in the automated logistics management method, the article sorting device tags the information tag attached to the goods to be stored, and classifies the goods into any one of a shipment target, a moving company transmission target, and a warehouse loading target, a first step of transmitting the classification result to the central management server, wherein the information tag includes tenant identification information and product identification information; Any one in the loading space corresponding to the resident identification information to which the central management server will load the goods, based on the resident identification information and the product identification information included in the information tag, for the goods to be loaded in the warehouse as a result of the classification a second step of determining a sector of After the first conveyor device transports the goods to be loaded in the warehouse to the loading space corresponding to the tenant identification information, the second conveyor device transports the transported goods to the sector determined by the central management server and is loaded a third step; a fourth step of receiving, by the central management server, a delivery request including the item identification information and quantity information from the tenant terminal; The central management server requests a corresponding quantity of goods corresponding to the received delivery request among the goods loaded in the warehouse, and transfers the goods to the article sorting device by the first conveyor device and the second conveyor device Step 5; This may be achieved by an automated logistics management method including a sixth step in which the goods sorting device transfers the transferred goods to the tenant company or the warehouse in accordance with the command of the central management server.

Here, the warehouse is provided with each separate loading space matching each occupant identification information by dividing the warehouse, and the loading space for each tenant identification information may be divided into a plurality of sectors.

Here, in the first step, the article sorting device recognizes the size of the article and transmits it to the central management server, and in the second step, the central management server loads the article based on the size of the received article. You can decide which one sector to do.

Here, the warehouse further includes a special article storage space in addition to the loading space for each tenant identification information, and in the first step, the article sorting device recognizes whether special storage of the article is required and transmits it to the central management server. and, in the second step, the central management server may store the article in any one sector of the special article storage space when the article needs the special storage.

Here, as a result of the classification in the first step, the goods classified as the shipment target are transferred to the delivery destination tag attachment device through a third conveyor device, and the delivery address tag attachment device transfers the water according to the information received from the central management server. It may further include the step of attaching a delivery address tag including the delivery address information of the product and then transferring the product to the warehouse.

Here, as a result of the classification of the first step, after transporting the goods classified as the occupant's transmission target to the vertical transport device through the fourth conveyor device, the vertical transport device moves the floor in the building corresponding to the resident identification information of the corresponding article. It may further include the step of transferring to.

Here, in the fourth step, the delivery request includes information on whether the item requires repackaging, and in the sixth step, the article sorting device determines that the delivery requested item is an item requiring repackaging. It can be sent to the tenant company through a vertical transport device, and in the case of items that do not require repacking, they can be sent to a shipping address tag attachment device, attached with a delivery address tag, and then transferred to the shipping post office.

According to the present invention described above, in providing office, product delivery, and warehouse service for a plurality of tenant companies located in one building, the steps required for product delivery are minimized and product transportation and warehouse management are automated and provided It is possible to provide an automated logistics management system and method that can do this.

It should be noted that the technical terms used herein are used only to describe specific embodiments, and are not intended to limit the present invention. In addition, the technical terms used in this specification should be interpreted in the meaning generally understood by those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention belongs, unless otherwise defined in this specification, and excessively inclusive. It should not be construed in the meaning of a human being or in an excessively reduced meaning. In addition, when the technical terms used in the present specification are incorrect technical terms that do not accurately express the spirit of the present invention, they should be understood by being replaced with technical terms that those skilled in the art can correctly understand. In addition, the general terms used in the present invention should be interpreted as defined in advance or according to the context before and after, and should not be interpreted in an excessively reduced meaning.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the same or similar components are assigned the same reference numerals regardless of reference numerals, and redundant description thereof will be omitted. In addition, in the description of the present invention, if it is determined that a detailed description of a related known technology may obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. In addition, it should be noted that the accompanying drawings are only for easy understanding of the spirit of the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the spirit of the present invention by the accompanying drawings. The spirit of the present invention should be construed as extending to all changes, equivalents, or substitutes other than the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram of a logistics management system according to the present invention.

The logistics management system according to the present invention is a warehouse and warehouse for storing goods produced and transported by a plurality of tenant companies performing production and sales of goods, etc. It can be built in an integrated logistics center that integrates all the cattle 300 and places them in one building. As shown, the logistics management system includes an article sorting device 110 , a delivery address tag attaching device 130 , a vertical transport device 120 , and each conveyor device for transporting goods between each device, and at each tenant company It may include a holding company terminal 150 and a central management server 140 for collectively controlling an automated management system for each of the devices.

Hereinafter, a series of processes for sorting and loading goods that are produced outside the warehouse will be first described, and then a series of processes for transmitting the goods loaded in the warehouse to a delivery destination will be described.

The goods received from the outside to the integrated distribution center are provided to the article sorting device 110 with information tags attached thereto. Prior to the operation of the article sorting device 110 , a process of transporting goods produced by each resident company to the integrated distribution center will be described as follows.

As described above, multiple tenants are located in the building of the integrated logistics center, and each tenant can transport goods produced in an external factory to the integrated logistics center and deliver them to their respective delivery destinations.

The integrated logistics center is a transport vehicle at regular time intervals (for example, twice a day) in the form of a shuttle bus as shown in FIG. (400) can visit each of the external factories to receive the goods produced. On the other hand, the transport vehicle 400 unloads the produced goods at the integrated distribution center, loads the goods with the delivery address information tag from the integrated distribution center, and transmits them to the hub terminal at a set time per day.

At this time, the goods to be received through the distribution center through each item may be individually packaged and may be received, a plurality of goods may be stored in a single package. Hereinafter, unless otherwise specified, an article may mean each packaging unit.

Each item unloaded from the integrated logistics center may include an information tag. Here, the information tag may include tenant company identification information and product identification information, and the tenant company identification information corresponds to the unique identification information of the tenant company that produces and sells the product and moves into the integrated logistics center building, and the product identification information may include the product name and serial number of the product. In addition, the information tag may include additional necessary information, such as the production time of the product, whether special storage is required, the expiration date, the size of the packaging of the product, whether or not repacking is required for delivery to the customer. Information tags are tags that can be recognized by optical readers such as QR codes (Quick Response Codes) and barcodes, or information stored in external readers through short-range wireless communication such as NFC (Near Field Communication) and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification). It may be implemented as a recognizable tag, and there will be no limitation in specific implementation examples.

On the other hand, the information tag is an information tag attaching device ( (not shown) may be attached.

The article to which the information tag is attached goes through a sorting process by the article sorting device 110 . The article sorting device 110 includes a tagging means (not shown) including an optical reader capable of recognizing a QR code, a barcode, and/or a reader capable of recognizing an NFC or RFID tag, the information tag of the article It is possible to recognize the information contained in the resident, for example, identification information and product identification information.

At this time, the recognized information may be transmitted to the central management server 140 and stored in the database of the central management server 140 . To this end, the article sorting apparatus 110 may transmit/receive data to and from the central management server 140 through a wired/wireless network.

The article sorting apparatus 110 classifies the article into any one of a shipment target, a tenant transmission target, and a warehouse loading target according to the recognition result. Here, information on any one of the three classification criteria is included on the information tag, so that each article can be classified according to the information recognized by the tagging means.

As another embodiment, whether the goods to be shipped immediately to the delivery destination for the goods transported by the tenant terminal 150, or the goods to be shipped after repackaging and tagging the delivery address after transporting to the tenant companies, once in the warehouse of the integrated distribution center When information on whether the item to be loaded is input, the information is received from the central management server 140, and according to the information transmitted from the central management server 140, the item sorting device 110 determines the quantity corresponding to each classification. You can classify incoming goods as much as possible.

A conveyor belt is provided in the article sorting apparatus 110 to automatically move articles while being mounted on the conveyor belt, and the tagging means is provided at a predetermined position to tag information tags of articles in motion. In addition, a sensor (not shown) for recognizing the existence of an article loaded on the conveyor belt is located adjacent to the tagging means, and when an article is detected by the sensor, the conveyor belt is temporarily stopped and attached to the article by the tagging means information tag can be tagged. Accordingly, it is possible to automatically transfer the corresponding article to each path according to the recognition of the information tag without manual transfer.

The articles that have been sorted by the article sorting device 110 may be transported through a conveyor device through respective routes. First, the shipment target article is an article to be immediately transported to the delivery location, and is moved to the delivery location tag attachment device 130 through the conveyor device, and the delivery location tag attachment device 130 receives the delivery location information according to the delivery location information received from the central management server 140 . Attach information tags. The goods to which the delivery destination tag is attached are transported to the shipping and unloading station 300 through a conveyor device, and may be loaded on the transport vehicle 400 from the shipping and unloading station 300 to be transported to the hub terminal.

Next, the goods to be transmitted to the tenant company may correspond to the goods that need to be sent to the tenant company located in the integrated logistics center building because repacking is required among the products that are determined to be delivered immediately to the delivery destination. As a result of the classification, the goods to be transmitted to the tenant company are transferred to the vertical transport device 120 through the conveyor device.

As described above, the offices of a plurality of tenant companies may be located in one building of the logistics management center, and as shown in FIG. 4 , the tenant companies that produce each product on each floor of the building are located, and in the basement of the building. A warehouse for storing goods produced by each resident company is provided on one or several floors, and a shipping and warehouse 300 for classifying and shipping goods scheduled to be delivered to the first floor or outside of the building for each delivery destination will be provided. can

The vertical transport device 120 is provided with a known elevator system, and can transport each article to a floor where the corresponding tenant is located.

Next, the goods classified as the warehouse loading target by the article sorting device 110 are generally not ordered from the customer at the current time, so they may correspond to goods to be loaded in the warehouse once.

The central management server 140, for the goods classified as warehouse loading targets, based on the resident identification information and the product identification information included in the information tag, any one sector in the loading space corresponding to the resident identification information to which the goods are to be loaded. to decide

Figure 3 shows an example of a warehouse provided in the integrated distribution center.

As shown, the warehouse may be divided into a plurality of loading spaces 210 . Here, the divided plurality of loading spaces 210 are spaces assigned according to a contract with the tenant company, and the central management server 140 can manage each loading space 210 by matching it with the tenant company identification information. That is, the integrated logistics center can allocate each space in which the tenant's goods are exclusively stored according to the contractual relationship with the tenant company.

In addition, each loading space 210 may include a plurality of sectors capable of storing one article. The plurality of sectors may be configured in a three-dimensional checkerboard shape as shown, and it is preferable that one sector is provided to store one article. Each sector may have the same size or may be implemented with spaces of different sizes.

The central management server 140 stores the identification information of the goods stored in each sector on the database, and when the goods to be loaded in the warehouse are transferred by the goods sorting device 110, select any one of the vacant sectors. You can have the item loaded. At this time, the central management server 140 may select to store the same article in an adjacent sector.

The goods classified as warehouse loading targets by the article sorting device 110 are transferred to the loading space 210 matching the tenant identification information by the conveyor device. Thereafter, the article is transported to a conveyor device located in the loading space 210 , and after being positioned at the lower end of the sector by the conveyor device, the article may be moved to the sector by a lift device.

The lifting device is equipped with an article recognition sensor, so it can be checked whether articles are actually loaded in the sector. The central management server 140 may select to store the article in an empty sector through the information stored in the database, but the article may be loaded in the selected space due to manual loading or the like. As a result of sensing of the article recognition sensor, if an article is already loaded in the corresponding sector, it is transmitted to the central management server 140 , and the central management server 140 may designate another sector so that the article is loaded.

Meanwhile, in FIG. 3 , the conveyor device includes a first conveyor device 230A that rotates around a plurality of loading spaces for each tenant identification information and transports goods, and a corresponding sector within the loading space for each tenant identification information. It may include each second conveyor device 230B for transferring.

In addition, the warehouse may include at least one special goods warehouse 220 . The special goods warehouse 220 may be provided to separately store products with a high risk of damage, expensive products, and products requiring refrigeration. The central management server 140 can designate items requiring special storage for each item identification information, and when the item identification information corresponds to items requiring special storage as a result of tagging the information tag, general items according to the tenant identification code Rather than being transferred to the warehouse, it is transferred to the predetermined special goods warehouse 220 .

According to one embodiment, the general goods warehouse is provided as an independent space for each resident company, but the special goods warehouse 220 can be used in common by several resident companies, and the central management server 140 is used for goods requiring special storage. To determine any one of a plurality of sectors of the special goods warehouse 220 for the corresponding goods to be transported.

On the other hand, since the general warehouse is dedicated to each tenant, the total cost will be set based on the number of sectors. By measuring the storage period of the goods stored in the special goods warehouse 220, it is possible to generate separate cost information to be billed to the corresponding tenant.

In the above, a series of processes for sorting and loading goods that are produced outside the warehouse have been described, and accordingly, it is possible to automatically sort, transport, and load goods without manual work.

Hereinafter, a series of processes for transmitting the goods loaded in the warehouse to the delivery destination will be described.

The tenant terminal 150 is implemented as a laptop PC (Personal Computer), a tablet PC, a smartphone, a PDA, etc., and may receive an application for purchasing an item from a purchaser through the Internet. In addition, it may be connected to the central management server 140 to transmit product-related information and delivery-related information, and may receive information on items stored in the warehouse, information on shipment of goods, and the like.

The tenant terminal 150 transmits a delivery request including product identification information and quantity information to the central management server 140 for delivery of the product according to the purchaser's application for purchasing the product.

When the central management server 140 receives the delivery request, in order to recover the corresponding quantity of the article corresponding to the delivery request from the warehouse, each sector in which the corresponding article is stored is designated to recover the article. Accordingly, the lifting device picks up the articles loaded in the sector and transports them to the second conveyor device, and the articles are transferred to the article sorting device 110 through the second conveyor device and the first conveyor device.

As for the goods stored in the warehouse, each article may be individually packaged and received, or a plurality of articles may be received while being packaged as one. That is, when delivering the goods to the buyer, individually packaged goods can be transported and delivered directly from the warehouse to the shipping and shipping office 300, but if a number of goods are packaged in one, it will be possible to deliver them through repacking at the resident company. .

Accordingly, the tenant terminal 150 transmits the item delivery request to the central management server 140, including information on whether the item requires repackaging, and the information is to be transmitted to the item sorting device 110. can

When the goods recovered from each sector of the warehouse are goods that require repacking, the article sorting device 110 transfers the goods to the vertical transport device 120 through a conveyor device and sends the goods to the corresponding tenant. After that, when the tenant repackages the goods in individual units and sends them down through the vertical transport device 120 , they are sent back to the article sorting device 110 , and the article sorting device 110 is sent to the delivery address tag attachment device 130 . send the goods The delivery address tag attaching device 130 attaches the delivery address tag to the goods based on the delivery address information received from the central management server 140 , and then transfers the delivery address tag to the goods through a conveyor device to the shipping and warehouse 300 .

On the other hand, if the goods recovered from each sector do not require repackaging, the article sorting device 110 immediately transmits the article to the delivery destination tag attaching device 130 . Thereafter, the delivery address tag attaching device 130 attaches the delivery address tag to the article based on the delivery location information received from the central management server 140 , and then transfers the delivery address tag to the goods through the conveyor device to the warehouse 300 .

Each of the goods transferred to the shipping office 300 may be classified by delivery address information and transported to the delivery location through a vehicle.

The logistics system and building according to the present invention as described above have the following advantages over the prior art. First, it is possible to dramatically reduce the logistics transportation process that is performed through the conventional five-step process. In other words, as a result of locating a large number of tenants and the primary warehouse in one building, the distance and time taken from the initial production of goods to the primary warehouse can be shortened. In addition, by immediately storing the goods received in the warehouse provided in the building, the tenant does not need to set up a separate warehouse in the tenant company, and the effect of saving the time for moving goods to the warehouse provided outside and the warehouse cost is effective. have. In addition, since such a series of processes is automatically controlled by the central management server 140, there is an effect of eliminating manual labor in goods transport and packaging.

5 is a block diagram of the central management server 140 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown, the central management server 140 may include an interface unit 141 , an article information management unit 143 , a device management unit 142 , and a database unit 144 .

The interface unit 141 communicates with each device in the integrated distribution center, such as the tenant terminal 150, the article sorting device 110, the delivery address tag attaching device 130, the vertical transport device 120, and the conveyor device through a wired/wireless network. prepared to perform.

The product information management unit 143 integrally manages information related to warehousing, shipment, and warehouse loading of goods in the integrated distribution center. More specifically, according to the information received from the terminal 150 of the tenant company, the information is transferred to the product sorting device 110 so that the goods stored in the integrated distribution center are classified into any one of a shipment target, a tenant transmission target, and a warehouse loading target. can provide

When the goods are classified into any one of a shipment target, a tenant transmission target, and a warehouse loading target by the goods sorting device 110 after stocking, the product identification information and the classification result are received from the article sorting device 110 . The article information management unit 143 transmits information on a movement path according to the classification result of the corresponding article based on the received information to the device management unit 142 to be described later, and includes the tenant DB 144A provided in the database unit 144, the article Information DB (144B), warehouse information DB (144C), the delivery address information DB (144D), so that the customer DB (144E) to store the corresponding information.

When the product is a warehouse loading target, the product information management unit 143 may determine any one sector in the loading space corresponding to the tenant identification information in which the product is to be loaded. If the goods are shipped immediately after warehousing, or are repackaged after being transported to the tenant company, the information is attached to the delivery address tag attachment device 130 to attach the delivery address tag to each item according to the delivery address information received from the tenant terminal 150. can be provided to

In addition, the product information management unit 143 may generate cost information to be billed to each tenant according to transportation, product management, and warehouse loading. Here, in the case of a general goods warehouse when loading a warehouse, a dedicated space is allocated for each resident company, so that cost information can be generated according to the period of use of the warehouse and the number of sectors used, and the storage period for the goods stored in the special goods warehouse 220 can be measured to generate separate cost information to be billed to the tenant.

In addition, the product information management unit 143 may receive a delivery request received by each tenant company terminal 150 from a customer, and check whether one customer purchases goods from several tenant companies to the same delivery address. In this case, since goods produced by several resident companies can be delivered in one packaging unit, the repackaged goods can be transported to the warehouse 300 through the repacking process after receiving each product from the resident companies. have.

The device manager 142 serves to control the operation of each device provided in the integrated distribution center. For example, it is possible to control the operation of the conveyor device so that the goods can be moved according to the movement path of the goods received from the goods information management unit 143. When the goods are stored in a specific sector in the warehouse, through the first conveyor device After moving the goods to the warehouse area of the tenant company, the goods are moved to the lower end of the specified sector through the second conveyor device, and the goods are moved to the upper part by the lift device so that the goods can be loaded in the relevant sector.

In addition, when the goods are to be transported to the tenant company, it is possible to control the transport of the goods from the integrated distribution center to the floor where the tenant company is located through the vertical transport device 120 .

The database unit 144 may include a tenant DB 144A, a product information DB 144B, a warehouse information DB 144C, a delivery address information DB 144D, and a customer DB 144E.

The tenant DB 144A stores information related to the tenant companies that have moved into the integrated distribution center. For example, it may include identification information of the goods handled, warehouse area information of the corresponding tenant company, the quantity of goods stocked in the warehouse, the quantity of goods scheduled to be delivered, the location of the production plant, and the visit time of the transport vehicle 400 .

The goods information DB (144B) stores information related to the current state of the goods received. For example, it may include the current location of the product, whether repackaging is necessary, the price of the product, information on the delivery address, and the like.

The warehouse information DB (144C) stores information about warehouses and special goods warehouses for each tenant. For example, warehouse area information for each resident company, information on the size and acceptable goods of each sector in the warehouse, identification information of goods stored in each sector, identification information of goods stored in special goods warehouses, and cost information related to warehouse storage, etc. may include

The delivery address information DB 144D stores delivery address information of each item input from the tenant terminal 150 .

The customer DB 144E stores information related to customers who have purchased goods from each tenant. For example, it may include information such as items purchased by the customer, personal information such as gender / age, and delivery address of the items. The central management server 140 allows each tenant terminal 150 to access the customer DB 144E and read customer information input by the other tenant terminal 150, so that customer related information stored in the customer DB 144E Allow information to be shared by each tenant.

According to the above-described configuration, the central management server 140 automatically controls a series of processes required from warehousing to shipment of goods, thereby eliminating manual labor in goods transport and packaging.

6 is a view illustrating a flow for sorting and loading goods produced and received from outside according to the present invention.

When goods are received from the outside to the integrated logistics center (S11), they are provided to the goods sorting device in a state with an information tag attached, and the goods sorting device classifies the goods into any one of a shipment target, a tenant transmission target, and a warehouse target. (S12).

The goods classified for shipment (S13) are immediately transported to the delivery destination, and are moved to the delivery destination tag attachment device through the conveyor device, and the delivery destination tag attachment device attaches the delivery address information tag according to the delivery address information received from the central management server. do (S14). The goods to which the delivery address tag is attached may be transported to the shipping depot through a conveyor device (S15), and may be loaded onto a transport vehicle at the shipping depot and transported to each delivery location.

The goods to be transmitted to the tenant company (S16) may correspond to the goods that need to be sent to the tenant company located in the integrated logistics center building because repacking is required among the products that have been decided to be delivered immediately to the delivery destination. As a result of the classification, the goods to be transmitted to the tenant company are transferred to the vertical transport device through the conveyor device (S17), and are transferred to the tenant company's office through the vertical transport device.

Next, the goods classified as warehouse loading targets by the article sorting device (S19) are generally not reserved for orders from the customer at the current time, and may correspond to goods to be loaded in the warehouse once.

The central management server determines any one sector in the loading space corresponding to the tenant identification information in which the goods are to be loaded, based on the tenant identification information and the product identification information included in the information tag, for the goods classified as warehouse loading targets. (S20). When the sector to be loaded is determined, as described above with reference to FIG. 2 , articles may be loaded into the sector through the conveyor device and the lift device ( S21 ).

7 illustrates a series of flows for transferring goods loaded in a warehouse to a delivery destination according to the present invention.

When the tenant terminal receives an application for delivery of goods from the buyer through the Internet, the central management server receives the delivery request from the tenant terminal (S31).

When the central management server receives the delivery request, in order to recover the corresponding quantity of the article corresponding to the delivery request from the warehouse, the central management server designates each sector in which the corresponding article is stored to retrieve the article. Accordingly, the lifting device picks up the articles loaded in the sector and transports them to the second conveyor device, and the articles are transferred to the article sorting device through the second conveyor device and the first conveyor device (S32).

When the goods recovered from each sector of the warehouse are goods that require repackaging, the goods sorting device transfers the goods to the vertical transport device through the conveyor device and sends the goods to the corresponding tenant (S33).

After that, the tenant side repackages the goods (S34), and the repackaged goods are transmitted to the delivery destination tag attachment device through the vertical transport device, the conveyor device, and the article sorting device.

The delivery address tag attaching device attaches the delivery address tag to the outer surface of the package (S35), and then transfers the article to the warehouse for delivery (S36).

On the other hand, if the goods recovered from each sector do not require repackaging, the goods sorting unit immediately transmits the goods to the delivery destination tagging unit. Thereafter, the delivery address tag attaching device attaches the delivery address tag to the article based on the delivery address information received from the central management server, and then transfers the delivery address tag to the warehouse through the conveyor device.

Each item transported to the warehouse may be classified according to delivery address information and transported to the delivery location through a vehicle.

According to the present invention described above, there are the following advantages over the prior art. First, it is possible to dramatically reduce the logistics transportation process that is performed through the conventional five-step process. That is, as a result of locating a large number of tenants and the primary collection station in one building, the distance and time taken from the initial production of goods to the primary collection station can be shortened. In addition, by immediately storing the goods received in the warehouse provided in the building, the tenant does not need to set up a separate warehouse in the tenant company, and there is an effect of saving the goods movement time to the warehouse provided outside and the warehouse cost. . In addition, since such a series of processes is automatically controlled by the central management server DP, there is an effect that manual labor is eliminated in the transport and packaging of goods.

As such, those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains will understand that the present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential characteristics thereof. Therefore, it should be understood that the embodiments described above are illustrative in all respects and not restrictive.

For example, the tenant terminal and the central management server according to the present invention may store information by means of a memory. In an embodiment, the memory is a computer-readable medium. In one implementation, the memory may be a volatile memory unit, and in another implementation, the memory may be a non-volatile memory unit. The memory may also include, for example, a hard disk device, an optical disk device, or any other mass storage device.

The tenant terminal and the central management server may be realized by a command to cause one or more processing devices to perform the above-described functions and processes when executed. For example, such instructions may include interpreted instructions, such as script instructions, such as JavaScript or ECMAScript instructions, or executable code or other instructions stored on a computer-readable medium.

Implementations of the functional operations and subject matter described in this specification may be implemented as digital electronic circuits, or implemented in computer software, firmware, or hardware including the structures disclosed herein and structural equivalents thereof, or one or more of these It can be implemented by combining. Implementations of the subject matter described herein are one or more computer program products, ie, computer program instructions encoded on a tangible program storage medium for controlling the operation or execution by one or more computer program products, ie processing systems. It can be implemented as the above modules.

The computer readable medium may be a machine readable storage device, a machine readable storage substrate, a memory device, a composition of matter that affects a machine readable radio wave signal, or a combination of one or more thereof.

As used herein, the term “system” or “device” includes all devices, devices and machines for processing data, including, for example, programmable processors, computers, or multiple processors or computers. The processing system includes, in addition to hardware, For example, code constituting processor firmware, a protocol stack, a database management system, an operating system, or a combination of one or more thereof may include code forming an execution environment for a computer program upon request.

A computer program (also known as a program, software, software application, script or code) may be written in any form of a programming language, including compiled or interpreted language or a priori or procedural language, and may be a stand-alone program or module , components, subroutines, or other units suitable for use in a computer environment. A computer program does not necessarily correspond to a file in the file system. A program may be placed in a single file provided to the requested program, or in multiple interacting files (eg, files that store one or more modules, subprograms, or portions of code), or portions of files that hold other programs or data. (eg, one or more scripts stored within a markup language document). The computer program may be deployed to be executed on a single computer or multiple computers located at one site or distributed over a plurality of sites and interconnected by a communication network.

On the other hand, computer-readable media suitable for storing computer program instructions and data include, for example, semiconductor memory devices such as EPROM, EEPROM and flash memory devices, such as magnetic disks such as internal hard disks or external disks, magneto-optical disks and It can include all forms of non-volatile memory, media and memory devices, including CD-ROM and DVD-ROM disks. The processor and memory may be supplemented by, or integrated into, special purpose logic circuitry.

While this specification contains numerous specific implementation details, these are not to be construed as limitations on the scope of any invention or of what may be claimed, but rather as descriptions of features that may be specific to particular embodiments of particular inventions. should be understood Likewise, certain features that are described herein in the context of separate embodiments may be implemented in combination in a single embodiment. Conversely, various features that are described in the context of a single embodiment may also be implemented in multiple embodiments individually or in any suitable subcombination. Furthermore, although features operate in a particular combination and may be initially depicted as claimed as such, one or more features from a claimed combination may in some cases be excluded from the combination, the claimed combination being a sub-combination. or a variant of a sub-combination.

Also, although operations are depicted in the drawings in a specific order in this specification, it is not to be understood that such operations must be performed in the specific order or sequential order shown or that all illustrated operations must be performed in order to obtain a desirable result. Can not be done. In certain cases, multitasking and parallel processing may be advantageous. Further, the separation of the various system components of the above-described embodiments should not be construed as requiring such separation in all embodiments, and the described program components and systems are generally integrated together into a single software product or in multiple software products. It should be understood that packaging may be

As such, this specification is not intended to limit the invention to the specific terminology presented. Accordingly, although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the above-described examples, those skilled in the art can make modifications, changes, and modifications to the examples without departing from the scope of the present invention. The scope of the present invention is indicated by the claims described below rather than the above detailed description, and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalent concepts are interpreted as being included in the scope of the present invention. should be

Claims (4)

In the automated logistics management method,

The first step in which the goods sorting device tags the information tag attached to the goods to be received, classifies the goods into any one of a shipment target, a tenant transmission target, and a warehouse loading target, and transmits the classification result to the central management server - the information Tags include tenant identification information and product identification information -;

Any one in the loading space corresponding to the resident identification information to which the central management server will load the goods based on the resident identification information and the product identification information included in the information tag for the goods to be loaded in the warehouse as a result of the classification a second step of determining a sector of

After the first conveyor device transports the goods to be loaded in the warehouse to the loading space corresponding to the resident identification information, the second conveyor device transports the transported goods to the sector determined by the central management server and is loaded The third step to jaeha;

a fourth step of receiving, by the central management server, a delivery request including the product identification information and quantity information from a tenant terminal;

The central management server requests a corresponding quantity of goods corresponding to the received delivery request among the goods loaded in the warehouse, and transfers the goods to the article sorting device by the first conveyor device and the second conveyor device. Step 5;

A sixth step of the article sorting device transferring the transferred goods to the tenant company or the warehouse according to the command of the central management server,

As a result of the classification in the first step, the goods classified as the shipment target are transferred to the delivery destination tag attachment device through the third conveyor device, and the delivery destination tag attachment device delivers the goods according to the information received from the central management server attaching a delivery address tag including location information and then transferring the delivery address to the warehouse; and

As a result of the classification in the first step, the goods classified as the occupant's transmission target are transported to the vertical transport device through the fourth conveyor device, and then the vertical transport device is transported to the floor in the building corresponding to the resident identification information of the corresponding article. An automated logistics management method comprising the steps of:
The method of claim 1,

The warehouse is provided with each separate loading space matching each tenant company identification information by dividing the warehouse, and the loading space for each tenant company identification information is divided into a plurality of sectors. .
3. The method of claim 2,

In the first step, the article sorting device recognizes the size of the article and transmits it to the central management server,

In the second step, the central management server determines any one sector in which the goods are to be loaded based on the size of the received goods.
3. The method of claim 2,

The warehouse further includes a special article storage space in addition to the loading space for each tenant identification information,

In the first step, the article sorting device recognizes whether special storage of the article is necessary and transmits it to the central management server,

In the second step, the central management server, when the special storage needs of the article, the automated logistics management method, characterized in that the designated item to be stored in any one sector of the special article storage space.