How can collect orders at once?

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Fwteini K asked Mar 7, '21 Fwteini K commented Mar 10, '21

How can collect orders at once?

Hi there,

I have this model 11.fsm ,

the operator is responsible for the picking process according to "picking list". Also, the operator follow the prefferend path (s-path) and collect the 6 orders.

I want to operator collect all the orders together at once and after to travel on the "Order_Queue" in order to sepperate the orders according to "picking list". Does anyone know something to do this?

Thank you in advance!

Software Version:

FlexSim 19.2.4

flexsim 19.2.4 orders collecting at once s path

11.fsm (4.2 MiB)

Answer 1 · 2021-03-07T16:04:32Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Mar 7, '21 Fwteini K commented Mar 10, '21

I seem to have gotten confused since this now looks like a homework assignment that more than one person is doing. Your related posts are I think these:

Correct Picking Times

District Picking

While @Ioanna Cs posts are these:

How to calculate a different time per order - which has an S-Plan example

How to calculate different times for different orders

Are you working together on this as a project or is it coursework?

I've explained an approximate S-Plan logic where you will need to first associate your pick with the Aisle Bay and Slot, and I explained the fact that you need an address scheme in order to make use of the Aisle column in the Storage SystemGUI.

Here's what your aisles should look like:

On the rack guis setting an address scheme looks like this:

.. and you can see from that the Aisle ID is shown and now available in code as attributes of the slot.

In the previous posts we've said how to do it and given example - you just need to read and understand what has been said and try to implement it. If you try and fail - then come back and show us how far you got and we will help you take it further.

I strongly recommend you read about the Storage System properties in the manual.

I'm attaching the SPlan picking for items - not picks - here in case it's not clear which is model to which I would refer.sPlanPickSequence_loadTime.fsm

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splanpicksequence-loadtime.fsm (183.6 KiB)

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Fwteini K commented · Mar 08, 2021 at 10:46 AM

Hi @jason.lightfoot, thak you for your advices!

I try again the model following you instructions 11.fsm , but i think it doesn't work correctly. Because the operator collect one order per time (and not all together), after travell to "order_queue",unload the 1st order and after doing the saime for the next orders. Do you have any ideas for collecting 6 orders together at once?

Thank you.

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11.fsm (4.2 MiB)

Jason Lightfoot ♦ Fwteini K commented · Mar 08, 2021 at 11:41 AM

Here is the model where I had SPath picking that now picks 6 orders at a time in one "Pick Run".

I've moved the pick process to an instanced process Flow "Picker" which no longer needs to acquire the resource. Read about process flow instances in the manual to learn more. You add more pick operators using the Attache Objects (instances) tool in quick properties. The process now looks like this:

Model attached.

sPlanPickSequence_PickRun6orders.fsm

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splanpicksequence-pickrun6orders.fsm (184.9 KiB)

Fwteini K Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented · Mar 08, 2021 at 12:43 PM

Thank you once again.

Also, i want the operator to unload the 6 orders in "order_queue" after collecting and then should seperate the orders in 6 totes according to picking list, like the attached model 11.fsm (you can see in the picture too). How can i do this?

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11.fsm (4.2 MiB)

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