Replenishment using shortest distance

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suhasee asked Mar 30, '23 Jeanette F commented Apr 6, '23

Replenishment using shortest distance

Hi,

Currently I have a warehouse that does item putaways and continues to go to the Queue and put the items away on the racks. I would like to add a replenishment process where after the forklift puts an item away, it would then travel to the closest open slot and move an item from the higher shelves to the lower ones before going back to doing putaway.

I am using process flows and would like the dispatcher to calculate the shortest distance to actually do the replenishment. Thank you for the help.

interleaving.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 23.0.0

shortest distance item replenishment

interleaving.fsm (21.2 MiB)

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Joerg Vogel commented · Mar 31, 2023 at 05:33 AM

There exists a similar question about distances in a rack. It is about finding empty slots, but I assume, you can use some of it to build an own query. https://answers.flexsim.com/questions/83916/finding-the-nearest-open-slots-to-an-item-in-a-rac.html

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Apr 06, 2023 at 03:34 PM

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Answer 1 · 2023-03-30T19:15:27Z

Jonathan answered Mar 30, '23

Rough idea:
You can access object properties and their locations using XYZ coordinates.
Using the forklifts current coordinates and some math you could select the nearest object.

If you were to do this within a process flow, you could perform this as a subtask after putting something away, and the one it goes to is the closest (using the above idea). Perhaps with a conditional decide.

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