Patent ID: 8396585
Filing Date: 2013-03-12
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: distributing a plurality of pickers within an envelope of an inventory storage area, wherein said envelope encompasses at least a portion of each of a plurality of zones physically arranged within said inventory storage area such that a first, innermost one of said zones is successively and at least partially surrounded by one or more other ones of said plurality of zones, and wherein respective expected picking rates of members of a given group of inventory items stored in a given one of said zones are less than the respective expected picking rates of members of another group of inventory items stored in a successive one of said zones that at least partially surrounds said given zone; and instructing said plurality of pickers to select inventory items stored within said envelope such that over time, said envelope progresses through said inventory storage area about an axis included within said first one of said plurality of zones.