Patent ID: 9650208
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: B65G,G06Q

Claim:
1. A system, comprising: an automated warehouse that is configured to store product; a manual warehouse that is configured to store product; a control system in communication with the automated warehouse and the manual warehouse, the control system is configured with a product order allocation control scheme that is configured to receive a product order request demanding a quantity of ordered product, and in response to a received product order request, allocate the product order request between one or more of the automated warehouse and the manual warehouse so that the demanded quantity of the ordered product is retrieved from one or more of the automated warehouse and the manual warehouse; and the control scheme is configured to monitor how full the automated warehouse is with the ordered product from the received product order request, and if the automated warehouse contains more than a predetermined threshold of the ordered product, the control scheme will allocate the received product order request so that the demanded quantity of the ordered product is retrieved from the automated warehouse.