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Slot.address not working in Find Slot

Hi,


I am trying to fill my picking stations (the bottom row of the rack) with totes at the start of the simulation (see the "Fill Pick Area with Inventory" box in the process flow). I'm using a global table to create the totes in an arbitrary queue and then using the find slot/move object activities to move them to the correct location. The SQL query is not finding the slot based on the address and I'm not sure why. I've verified that my "Pick_Loc" column shares the same scheme as my address scheme so I'm not sure where to go. Please help me understand how to fix my "Find Slot" activity in the "Fill Pick Area with Inventory" process.

Pick_Area_slot.fsm

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Joey

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First of all, it looks like Pick_Loc is on the item not the token so $1 should be token.SNP_1:

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Then your rack should belong to an address scheme:

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And then your zone and aisle IDs should be set to match your pick_loc values - eg: ZID-AID-40-A-A

When you have that set correclty then running this script

Storage.system.querySlots("SELECT slot.address",0)

will return an array of values like this:

...[ZID-AID-22-C-B], [ZID-AID-22-D-A], [ZID-AID-22-D-B], [ZID-AID-22-E-A], [ZID-AID-22-E-B], [ZID-AID-23-A-A], [ZID-AID-23-A-B], [ZID-AID-23-B-A], [ZID-AID-23-B-B]....

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thank you for walking me through that in such good detail. I learned a lot through that question.
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