ORDER FULFILLMENT METHOD
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United States of America Patent
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app pub date -
Apr 8, 2014
filing date -
May 24, 2013
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Abandoned
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Abstract
An order fulfillment method and order fulfillment system includes picking items from inventory according to orders for the items and placing the picked items into picked receptacles. The picked receptacles are forwarded to an unloading station where an identifier of each item is identified at the unloading stating and the identifier of the item married with the transport receptacle into which the item is placed. The transport receptacles are tracked from the unloading station according to the identifier of the item in that transport receptacle and movement of the transport receptacle. This may be accomplished by unloading items to a sorter having sorter locations. Each of the locations has a unique machine location identification. Items are placed from the picked receptacles to the sorter at one of the locations and an item identification is referenced with the machine location identification of the location at which that item is placed on the sorter. The item is diverted at a particular one of the machine locations to a particular one of a plurality of processing stations according to an order for the item that is at that machine location. The divert is by selecting that item to be diverted according to machine location identification. The item is combined with the order for that item at the processing station.
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