Coupang, Corporation

Venkataraja Nellore

Xiufang Zhu

Matthew Cornford

Zhixin Liu

Harshal Wanjari

Paul Stroup

Jiung Lee

Bragadesh Rajaraman

Vikram Balaji

Manish Garg

A method of order fulfillment at a fulfillment center includes: identifying a first number of available collection units available for processing a corresponding first number of orders, identifying, from a list of unfulfilled orders at the fulfillment center, a second number of unfulfilled orders each of which is to be assigned to one of the first number of available collection units for packing, where the second number is selected such that an efficiency metric, which is based on (i) a total distance traversed by a collection device to collect the component items corresponding to the second number of unfulfilled orders from the storage area and (ii) a third number of component items collected using the collection device traversing the total distance, satisfies a threshold condition, and generating a signal to assign one or more particular collection devices to collect the third number of component items.

Optimizing order fulfillment processes

A method for managing workstation allocation in a fulfillment center includes receiving a batch of orders of items associated with SKUs, determining a throughput of each of workstations based on a number of outbound SKUs leaving one workstation per unit time, determining a sales velocity of each order SKU, generating a workstation allocation plan that assigns each order SKU to one or more particular workstations based on (i) the throughput of each of the workstations and (ii) the sales velocity of each order SKU to thereby decrease a discrepancy between the throughputs of the workstations with respect to a baseline discrepancy between the throughputs, and transmitting the workstation allocation plan to a transportation device configured to deliver the order SKUs from a storage system to the one or more particular workstations in accordance with the workstation allocation plan.

Managing allocation of workstations in fulfillment center

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