Problem with picking and restocking process

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Jim asked Apr 12, '24 Jeanette F commented May 6, '24

Problem with picking and restocking process

Hello dear community,

In this warehouse simulation, pallets with boxes are stored in racks, some in specific slots painted with an sku value and the rest in the stock slots. Also some picking orders which consists from different types and quantities skus are created randomly. If a pallet containing an sku, that is included in a picking order, is placed in higher levels than the picking level then it is brought down to the picking level and after that, the picking process for that order begins. The problem is that sometimes the picking slots are already full of pallets with the same sku and with enough quantity of it, but the pickers cant pick from them, beacause a pallet from a higher level has been attached to that order and the restocking process gets stuck in the "find slot" activity. Is there a way to have them pick from any pallet that matches the sku and has enough quantity of it for each order, while being at the picking level? To check basically, if there are still boxes in pallets available for that sku at the picking level. I would really appreciate any of your help. Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

Jim

descrete-picking-restocking.fsm

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FlexSim 21.1.5

picking problem replenishment

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Apr 29 at 03:15 PM

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · May 06 at 06:35 PM

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Answer 1 · 2024-04-13T03:09:35Z

Joerg Vogel answered Apr 13, '24 Jim commented Apr 13, '24

You can edit a query to find your slot items by an ORDER BY clause of slot.levelID ASCending or DESCending.

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Jim commented · Apr 13 at 11:59 PM

Thank you so much for your answer @Joerg Vogel! That query is already applied when searching if the sku exists in enough quantities as each order dictates. How can a decision be implemented so, when a pallet is to be brought down, the amount of available boxes on pallets at picking level is then checked. If enough to complete the order are there then the pallets that are stored in, are selected for that order instead. Then the pallet at the higher level is released from that order, the amount of boxes left is increased accordingly and the pallet is brought down to the picking leve if the other pallets were emptied. If not it is skipped. Is that possible with the current process flow or maybe a different approach should be considered? Thank you in advance.

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