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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!

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Jason Lightfoot answered Fwteini K commented

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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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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Jason Lightfoot avatar image Jason Lightfoot ♦ Fwteini K commented ·

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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Fwteini K avatar image Fwteini K Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented ·

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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Joerg Vogel avatar image Joerg Vogel Fwteini K commented ·

;-), hmm. I had described that in a deleted comment. But if your collected items get a label of Order List ID you can move them matching to the totes in your queue.

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Jason Lightfoot avatar image Jason Lightfoot ♦ Joerg Vogel commented ·

Right - that should be done at the initial pull of boxes by the orderPicks - which can be done with activities inserted into PrepAisle Data after pulling the boxes.

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Fwteini K avatar image Fwteini K Jason Lightfoot ♦ commented ·

Hi @jason.lightfoot,

this is my model after your instructions 11.fsm but it has an error and i can't fix it.

Sorry, I don't understand your reply about the operator, for seperating the orders in final order queue.Do you have another idea?

Thank you very much!

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Jason Lightfoot avatar image Jason Lightfoot ♦ Fwteini K commented ·

I don't understand the issue - you need to know which boxes go with which orders and at the end you need to put those boxes in the tote corresponding with the order.

If you're using one tote to collect them all (apparently) then when you get back to the order queue you need to get 5 more totes and then put the boxes in those and leave some in the collection tote.

Attached model - please take the time to go through and understand it (and even document it) and come back with questions on how it works if you're not sure.

sPlanPickSequence_PickRun6orders_decant2Totes.fsm

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