Arun Singhal

This patent relates to crossdocking of items in fulfillment centers or warehouses, especially those without item-level sortation processing. A control system for the facility may determine, assign and direct containers for transshipments between facilities without using an item-level sortation process. A determination is made for which containers in a receiving area are for transshipment from the materials handling facility based on multiple factors. Containers in receiving that are determined… Show more

This patent relates to crossdocking of items in fulfillment centers or warehouses, especially those without item-level sortation processing. A control system for the facility may determine, assign and direct containers for transshipments between facilities without using an item-level sortation process. A determination is made for which containers in a receiving area are for transshipment from the materials handling facility based on multiple factors. Containers in receiving that are determined for transshipment may be directed from receive to outbound docks without placing the items into inventory and without using an item-level sortation process. Pallets may be transshipped without placing the items into inventory and without depalletization. A facility with sortation may switch from item-level sortation of transshipments to container-level crossdock transshipment when a sortation process of a processing line approaches or exceeds capacity. Show less

The High Outbound Volume picking process will be responsible for aggregating picking demand in our warehouse in a fashion that allow more efficiency as multiple demand will be pick at the same time. This consist into finding opportunity where we have a large set of demand that share common traits and we have a location in the warehouse (case, pallet) where the inventory match the set of demands. In this case, we can avoid picking each demand individually and perform a High Outbound Volume Pick.… Show more

The High Outbound Volume picking process will be responsible for aggregating picking demand in our warehouse in a fashion that allow more efficiency as multiple demand will be pick at the same time. This consist into finding opportunity where we have a large set of demand that share common traits and we have a location in the warehouse (case, pallet) where the inventory match the set of demands. In this case, we can avoid picking each demand individually and perform a High Outbound Volume Pick. Different use case where this would be useful:
- Many customer order are in the building, some of them are for multiple items (thus require more processing before getting to a packing station) vs others orders are for single item (thus can skip directly to a packing station). There is pallet on the floor of the inventory required for those orders. The invention here identify those orders for single item and move them all to the pallet while moving out the orders that are for multiple item. In this case, warehouse associate will be able to go and pick the whole pallet instead of picking each item individually.
- We are planning on transshipping (moving item from one warehouse to an other) thousands of units of a single ASIN. Instead of picking each units individually, we will be able to identify cases or pallets that can be pick instead. Show less