Merchandising – Customer service – Store service
Patent
1997-02-05
1999-08-10
Bartuska, F. J.
Merchandising
Customer service
Store service
414331, B65G 104
Patent
active
059344130
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a method and device for order picking.
Such a method is used in particular for the delivery of shops, e.g. food stores, or of branches of a trading chain, in particular a supermarket chain, by a wholeseller or a central storehouse of a trading chain.
The term "order picking" shall be understood as being the assembly of several articles pursuant to the order of an ordering party.
The term "store keeping unit" shall mean a specific number, which may also only be one piece, of the same articles, with this number of similar articles being connected and representing the minimum delivery quantity for an order. This connection of the number of same articles forming a store keeping unit can occur by way of a common plastic envelope or also be achieved by glueing the individual articles to a relatively thin carrier having only a low tenacity such as a piece of cardboard, for example.
The term "article" shall be understood as being a specific product in a specific packaging size. In other words, a product "A" in a packaging size "B" constitutes an other product than the product "A" in a packaging size "C" or a product "D" in the packaging size "B".
The term "article-pure" shall therefore mean that the respective unit, e.g. the large unit, is composed of a plurality of merely one article.
The term "large unit" shall be understood as being a plurality of connected store keeping units which are combined into one unit and are delivered jointly as a unit, mostly on a pallet.
In known methods of this kind the individual store keeping units are transported to fixed shelves in the warehouse, stored there and removed therefrom for compiling the individual consignments or orders. According to a number of methods this occurs manually, with the removed goods being placed on a conveyor belt which is provided with pushing devices which push off the goods laterally from the packing stations.
Furthermore, methods have also become known wherein the goods are issued to a conveyor device by output devices which are controlled by a computer. These conveyor devices move at a constant speed past the output devices. Each order is allocated a specific region of the conveyor device which also moves along. Containers are filled with the loose heaps of articles or heaps of store keeping units which are made available for an order, with the containers being situated on a conveyor belt which leads to the packing stations. The containers are taken from the conveyor belts there and packed for delivery.
These methods lead to the disadvantage however that the goods have to be frequently transferred from one conveying means to another one. This can lead to damage in the packaging, because the store keeping units must be conveyed and handled loosely and without protection. A further adverse aspect is that for reducing unnecessary garbage the amount of packaging should be reduced. Any damaged packagings of the goods constitute a serious problem with respect to the frictionless sequence of the flow of goods. Moreover, it is necessary in this method to carry out the order picking at a time at which the manual packaging stations are manned. The amount of the apparatuses in the performance of this method constitutes a serious problem with respect to the amount of space needed, with the sorter being of particular importance.
It is the object of the invention to provide a method in which a substantial careful treatment of the goods is ensured and in which substantially fully automatic order picking is possible.
This is achieved in accordance with the invention with a method.
As a result of the proposed measures it is ensured that the store keeping units of the goods only have to be grasped during the breakdown of the large units or during the loading of the ware carriers and during the removal of the ware carriers or during the loading of the transport containers. This ensures a very substantial careful treatment of the goods or their packaging, because during the assembly of the consignments not the goods per se, but only the ware
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patent: 4806072 (1989-02-01), Karashima
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Gabler Wolfgang
Konig Heinz
Von Hacht Werner
Bartuska F. J.
TGW Transportgerate Gesellschaft mbH
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