Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System for improving in-store picking performance and experience by optimizing tote-fill and order batching of items in retail store and method of using same
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Application No.: US15417929Application Date: 2017-01-27
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Publication No.: US10657580B2Publication Date: 2020-05-19
- Inventor: Ashwin Kumar , Ameya Ajay Shendre , Pratosh Deepak Rajkhowa
- Applicant: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US AR Bentonville
- Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
- Current Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US AR Bentonville
- Agency: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q30/00
- IPC: G06Q30/00 ; G06Q30/06

Abstract:
A system and method includes receiving a plurality of orders having one or more items, separating the orders by load number and due times, batching the separate orders into different commodities, generate optimized rebatched orders according to an optimization algorithm that generates the optimized rebatched orders based on at least one of distance and volume of the items of the one or more items within the batched orders of the different commodities, sorting the one or more items within the rebatched orders by sequence numbers, and transmitting the sorted one or more items to a user device.
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