Storage in racks in assigned slots according to OrderNumber

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Martin B6 asked Nov 16, '20 Jason Lightfoot commented Nov 16, '20

Storage in racks in assigned slots according to OrderNumber

Hello, is it possible that the items are transported by order number and allocated to assigned slots on the racks? The products are delivered to the receiving warehouse (FloorStorage) and are labelled with an order number. In the current model, the operator takes 5 random products and sorts them randomly into the rack.

In the new process, the operator should place all items (Assumption: the operator can always transport all items of an order simultaneously) with the same OrderNumber on an assigned slot on the rack (If possible, the slots near the BatchZone should be stocked first). If at a later time items of an order number, which is already on the rack, arrive at the receiving warehouse, the items should be transported into the same slot.

Can anyone help me with this and show me how to implement it?

Entwurf_6_2.fsm

Thanks a lot!!

Martin

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.2.3

processflow labels flexsim 20.2.3 rack storage

entwurf-6-2.fsm (1.7 MiB)

Answer 1 · 2020-11-16T12:44:17Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Nov 16, '20 Jason Lightfoot commented Nov 16, '20

This is done just by finding a Slot by matching slot label. If none is available you can even look for the nearest slot to a full slot of the same order. Some examples in this ticket may help.

In your case it would looks something like this:

In addition to assigning the slot you'll want to label the slot with the order number so that you can find it in the first search. You can also search for items that match, but at the moment that doesn't work until the item is physically in the rack so for now stick with searching for slots and un/labelling them with the order number. If you can have multiple order numbers in the same slot then this will get trickier and you may need to label the slot with an array and use the "IN" sql clause to check that your order is in the slots label array.

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Martin B6 commented · Nov 16, 2020 at 02:05 PM

Hello @jason.lightfoot

Thanks for your answer. I have rebuilt my process flow and tried to assign the slots to the order numbers. The operator now sorts all items into the same shelf and slot. Unfortunately, I don't know how to program the Assign Slots labels so that the slots are assigned by order numbers. Can you help me assign the Find a Slot labels to the order numbers?

Entwurf_6_2.fsm

Thank you!

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Joerg Vogel Martin B6 commented · Nov 16, 2020 at 02:58 PM

Set slot according label (here SKU)
3D Library: Warehousing "Paint Slot Labels" tool
custom color pallet and painted slot (comments)

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Nov 16, 2020 at 02:51 PM

Where's your order number coming from - you said the inbound items have order numbers allowing you to assign them to a slot based on that. I was expecting you to push something like "Inbound BoxOrder" to this list to allow this process to continue:

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Jason Lightfoot ♦ Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Nov 16, 2020 at 03:22 PM

Without the order number we can't label the slot, which will be just something like this:

token.slot.orderID=token.itemToStore.orderID.

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