Patent ID: 11954638
Assignee: CAINIAO SMART LOGISTICS HOLDING LIMITED
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A task allocation method for picking merchandises, wherein the merchandises are stored on shelves of a warehouse, and the method comprises:
receiving, by a computing device, a plurality of orders of merchandises;
determining, by the computing device, a merchandise picking time of each merchandise of the merchandises of the received orders;
determining, by the computing device, an order picking time for each of the received orders according to the merchandise picking time of each of the merchandises;
determining, by the computing device, an order set according to the order picking time for each of the received orders, and selecting one or more orders from the order set as one or more target orders;
locating, by the computing device, one or more shelves on which merchandises in the one or more target orders are stored in the warehouse;
obtaining, by the computing device, merchandise status of the merchandises in the one or more target orders, and determining a target shelf according to the merchandise status;
allocating, by the computing device, a picking task of the merchandises to the target shelf;
determining, by the computing device, a picking workstation corresponding to the target shelf;
instructing, by the computing device when the picking workstation is available, the target shelf to move to the picking workstation to execute the picking task of the merchandises; and
instructing, by the computing device, the target shelf to leave the corresponding picking workstation after the picking task of the merchandise is completed.