| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for processing a receptacle containing heterogeneous inventory items in a material handling facility.SOLUTION: Dirty picking may be described as a mechanism for "batch" processing of a receptacle which includes multiple heterogeneous inventory items with different identification codes in a material handling facility as if all of the items in the receptacle have been ordered, even though one or more of the items may have not been ordered. Through the implementation of a dirty picking mechanism, instead of processing individual items in the receptacle, the entire receptacle may make "dirty picking" and all of the items within the receptacle may be processed "downstream" at a processing station, during which needed items for processing may be selected, and "overage" items may be put aside to be disposed, e.g. by being restocked. |
