JPH1017119A - Stock managing method for merchandise in automatic warehouse - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform management of a stock of merchandise in a unit equivalent to one layer by a method wherein merchandise loaded in a plurality of layers on a pallet contained on a containing shelf is picked in a unit equivalent to one layer. SOLUTION: In an automatic warehouse wherein a picking shelf 2 is arranged in a frontmost row on a containing shelf 1, merchandise B loaded in a plurality of layers on a pallet A is contained on the containing shelf 1 and merchandise equivalent to only one layer of the merchandise B contained on the containing shelf 1 is contained on the picking shelf 2. When the merchandise is delivered from the picking shelf 2 and the shelf is brought into an empty state, the empty shelf is replenished with the merchandise equivalent to one layer taken out from the containing shelf 1. When the merchandise B on the pallet A contained on the containing shelf runs out, an empty shelf is outputted from the shelf. The merchandise B loaded on the pallet A is contained on the empty containing shelf, and input and output of the merchandise B and the pallet A and management of a stock are automatically effected.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a distribution center,
At delivery centers, daily necessities, miscellaneous goods, various foods,
The present invention relates to a product inventory management method for automatically carrying in and out of products in a warehouse for storing products such as drinking water.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Automated warehouses that store commodities such as daily necessities, miscellaneous goods, various foods, various kinds of drinking water in bottles or cans, and so on, automatically in and out of warehouses at distribution centers, distribution centers, etc. Is being built in

A conventional automatic warehouse has a shelf for storing goods,
A stacker crane for taking goods in and out of shelves,
It is composed of a trolley or a conveyor for storing goods, a trolley or a conveyor for discharging goods, a controller for sequence control for controlling these facilities, and a computer for warehouse management.

[0004] Incoming / outgoing of goods is performed in units of goods stacked on a pallet in a plurality of layers, that is, in units of pallets, and inventory management of goods is performed by calculating a product number, an ID number, a quantity, etc. of the product at the time of receiving the goods. The registered stock quantity is increased by increasing the registered stock quantity, and decreasing the registered stock quantity at the time of shipment of the product at the time of shipment of the corresponding ID number.

[0005] According to the above-mentioned conventional method, the control method is simple, the program is easy to produce, and as long as the products are put in and taken out of the pallet, inventory management of the products can be performed without any problem.

[0006]

However, according to the above-mentioned conventional method, since goods are loaded and unloaded in units of pallets, only a small amount of load, for example, only one layer of goods loaded on the pallets, is stored. Cannot be picked.

[0007] Therefore, when picking only one layer of goods, one pallet of goods is delivered to the warehouse, and
It was necessary to pick up only the layers and then re-enter the pallet, which required much labor and was extremely inefficient.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problem and to make it possible to pick up goods stacked in a plurality of layers on a pallet in units of one layer. An object of the present invention is to provide a method for managing inventory of commodities in an automatic warehouse, in which management is performed in units of one commodity.

[0009]

According to the method of the present invention, storage shelves arranged in a plurality of rows of shelves of a plurality of levels for storing goods stacked in a plurality of layers on a pallet, and stored in the storage shelves. A plurality of pick-up shelves arranged in the front row of the storage shelf for taking out and storing one layer of commodities on the pallet, at a predetermined position on the storage shelf, A method of storing goods loaded in a layer and paying out the goods in units of one layer of goods from the picking shelf, which is an inventory management method for goods in an automatic warehouse,
When a product is received, the computer inputs the product number of the product, the expiration date, the total number of products loaded on multiple layers on the pallet, the quantity per layer, and the height per product. Storing the goods stacked in a plurality of layers on a pallet at a predetermined position on the storage shelf, and loading the goods for one layer stored on the picking shelf, and storing the goods on the storage shelf The computer monitors the loading status of the goods stacked on the pallet in a plurality of layers, and when the picking shelf becomes empty due to the delivery of the goods, the plurality of layers are loaded on the pallet from the storage shelf. The uppermost one layer of the product is taken out and replenished to the empty shelves of the picking shelves, and the products stored on the storage shelves on the pallets are lost, and empty pallets are produced. When the empty pallet is unloaded from the storage shelf, and the empty stacking shelf from which the empty pallet is unloaded is used for picking up the goods stacked on the pallet in a plurality of layers to the picking shelf. The storage is carried out from a storage shelf, and the management of such loading and unloading and inventory of goods and pallets is automatically performed by a computer.

[0010]

Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing one embodiment of the method of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a partial schematic vertical sectional view thereof. As shown in the drawing, the warehouse main body is arranged in a plurality of storage shelves 1 composed of a plurality of shelves in which goods B stacked in a plurality of layers on a pallet A are stored, and in the front row of the storage shelves 1. It consists of a picking shelf 2.

In the illustrated example, the storage shelves 1 are 1a to 1a.
The first row storage shelf 1a and the second row storage shelf 1b, the third row storage shelf 1c and the fourth row storage shelf 1
d, the fifth row storage shelf 1e and the sixth row storage shelf 1
A passage 4 through which the stacker crane 3 moves is provided between the passage 4 and f.

The picking shelf 2 is provided with a standby shelf 2a. As shown in FIG. 2, the picking shelf 2 and the standby shelf 2a are each composed of a plurality of stages.
And a movable stopper 7 is provided at the boundary between the standby shelf 2a and the picking shelf 2. A passage 6 through which a plurality of face pick cranes 5 move is provided between the sixth row storage shelf 1f in the front row and the standby shelf 2a.

Reference numeral 8 denotes a receiving side trolley for traveling on rails 9 for transferring goods stacked in a plurality of layers on a pallet toward the storage shelves 1a to 1f. Reference numeral 10 denotes a second row storage shelves. 1b, the third row storage shelf 1c, the receiving conveyor 11 provided in the sixth row storage shelf 1f, and 11 are provided in the first row storage shelf 1a, the fourth row storage shelf 1d, and the fifth row storage shelf 1e, respectively. , A shipping conveyor for organizing stored goods. Also, 12
Is an inter-row moving conveyor, 13 is an empty pallet delivery conveyor,
Reference numeral 14 denotes a shipping side delivery conveyor.

A warehouse management computer (not shown) includes a terminal device for entry or a wireless terminal device for entry for registering the entry of a product, a terminal device for exit or a terminal for delivery for requesting or confirming the shipment of the item to be shipped. It is composed of a wireless terminal device, an office terminal device for performing report printing, data reference and correction, and a computer for allocating shelves for entering and leaving goods and managing shelves inventory. In some cases, the hardware of the computer main body is divided and installed in a server device, a control terminal device, a host communication terminal device, and the like.

A plurality of face pick cranes 3 moving along the passage 6 between the sixth row storage shelf 1f and the standby shelf 2a
Only the uppermost one layer of the products B stacked on the pallet A, which is stored on the pallet A, stored in the sixth row storage shelf 1f is taken out and supplied to a predetermined position of the standby shelf 2a of the picking shelf 2. . In the picking shelf 2 and the standby shelf 2a, products to be paid out for each shelf are determined in advance.

The stacker crane 3 that moves along the passage 4 between the storage shelves 1 moves the goods B for each pallet A between the storage shelves 1 and between the rows. The goods are stored by storing the goods B loaded on the pallet A in a plurality of layers on the storage shelves 1a to 1f together with the pallet A by the receiving-side cart 8 traveling on the rail 9. When goods B are received, the goods number of the goods, the expiration date, and the total quantity of the goods loaded on the pallet are input to the warehouse management computer. The standard value of the height is displayed, and is confirmed or corrected in the warehouse management computer.

The delivery of a product is performed in units of one layer of the product B loaded on the pallet A on the picking shelf 2. When the goods B are unloaded from the picking shelf 2 and the shelf becomes empty, the movable stopper 7 provided between the picking shelf 2 and the standby shelf 2a is manually or automatically removed, and the standby shelf 2a is removed.
The above product B is replenished to the picking shelf 2.

The warehouse management computer monitors the loading status of one layer unit of product B stored in the standby shelf 2a, and waits for the one layer unit of product B to be shipped to the picking shelf 2. When the shelf 2a becomes empty, a command is sent to the face pick crane 3 to replenish the product B stored in the sixth row storage shelf 1f opposite to the standby shelf 2a to the standby shelf 2a.

Such a product replenishment command instructs on which standby shelf 2a the product B is to be replenished from the sixth row storage shelf 1f, and also instructs the sixth row storage shelf 1 facing the standby shelf 2a.
The information on the current number of stacking stages of the product B in f and the height of the product is transmitted.

Further, the warehouse management computer monitors the state of the goods on the pallet A in the sixth row storage shelf 1f,
When the goods B loaded on the pallet A run out and an empty pallet is generated, the empty pallet A is unloaded from the storage shelf.

The unloading signal of the empty pallet A from the storage shelf is sent to the sequence control controller of the automatic warehouse, and the sequence control controller sends the empty pallet unloading signal to the stacker crane 3 and a conveyor and the like following the stacker crane 3. send.

Further, the warehouse management computer monitors the loading status of the sixth row storage shelf 1f, and when an empty pallet A is unloaded and an empty shelf is generated, the goods B allocated to the shelf are compared with the empty pallet A. The other storage shelves storing the same product B are searched for, and among the products stored on those shelves, the product with the shortest shelf life is identified as the stacker crane 3, the inter-row moving conveyor 12, the receiving side carriage 8 , And instructs the sequence controller to replenish empty shelves by moving between shelves or between rows.

If the quantity of commodities remaining on pallet A cannot be divided by the quantity of one layer unit, the commodities are not replenished, and are forcibly delivered when the replenishment allocation order is reached. It is automatically delivered to the mouth conveyor 16.

Depending on the factory where the goods are shipped, the quantity per one layer of the goods loaded on the pallet A may be different. Therefore, when inputting the quantity of the goods into the warehouse management computer,
Confirm or correct the number of products per layer for each product.

When the goods are received, the stock quantity in the automatic warehouse is increased by the registered amount of the goods. Note that the products on the standby shelf 2a provided on the picking shelf 2 cannot be picked, so that the products are handled as inventory for management. In the picking shelf 2, goods B are picked at any time and the stock quantity cannot be automatically grasped.
It is handled as flat stock for management, that is, stock outside the automatic warehouse.

Sixth row storage shelf 1 facing picking shelf 2
When the product B for one layer is taken out from f, the inventory quantity for one layer of the product on the shelf is reduced, while the inventory quantity of the corresponding standby shelf 2a is increased for one layer of the product. In this case, the total stock amount of the goods in the automatic warehouse does not change. As the quantity per one layer of goods, a value input or confirmed and corrected at the time of storage is used. That is, the quantity per layer of the product is managed as shelf information held for each shelf.

The product B is moved from the standby shelf 2a to the picking shelf 2
At that time, the inventory in the automated warehouse is reduced,
It will be treated as a delivery. The above-mentioned management of the entry / exit and inventory of the product B and the pallet A are all automatically performed by a computer.

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention,
By picking products stacked in multiple layers on a pallet in units of one layer, inventory management of products can be performed in units of one layer of products.
It is also possible to simultaneously manage cargoes with different quantities per layer, thereby storing general-purpose small items such as daily necessities, miscellaneous goods, various foods, drinking water, etc. and storing them in small supermarkets and retail stores. An industrially useful effect that can be easily delivered is provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing one embodiment of the method of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partial schematic vertical sectional view of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Storage shelf 2 Picking shelf 2a Standby shelf 3 Stacker crane 4 Passage 5 Face pick crane 6 Passage 7 Movable stopper 8 Receiving trolley 9 Rail 10 Receiving conveyor 11 Discharging conveyor 12 Inter-row moving conveyor 13 Empty bucket discharging conveyor 14 Shipping side discharging conveyor 15 Inlet conveyor 16 Outlet conveyor A Pallet B Product

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A storage shelf arranged in a plurality of rows comprising a plurality of shelves for storing goods stacked in a plurality of layers on a pallet, and one of the goods on the pallet stored in the storage shelf. To take out the layer and store it, in an automatic warehouse consisting of picking shelves arranged in the front row of the storage shelf, at a predetermined position of the storage shelf, store the goods stacked in multiple layers on the pallet, The delivery of goods to the picking shelf is a method of managing inventory of goods in an automatic warehouse, which is performed in units of one layer of goods. When a goods is received, the goods number of the goods, the expiration date, and a plurality of layers on a pallet are provided. Enter the total quantity of the loaded products into the calculator, and confirm or correct the quantity per layer and the height per product into the calculator.
Commodities stacked on a pallet in a plurality of layers are stored at predetermined positions on the storage shelf, and one layer of commodities stored on the picking shelf are stored and stored on the storage shelf. When the picking shelf becomes empty due to the delivery of the goods, the loading status of the goods stacked on the pallet in a plurality of layers is monitored by a computer. Out of the product, and replenish the empty shelves of the picking shelves. When there are no more products stored on the storage shelves loaded on the pallet and an empty pallet occurs, The pallets are unloaded from the storage shelves, and the products stacked in multiple layers on the pallets are loaded into the empty storage shelves from which the empty pallets have been unloaded, from other storage shelves. The goods movements and inventory management of Rett wherein the automatically performed by computer, inventory control method of the product in the automatic warehouse.