Dynamic picking and inventory optimisation in dark stores and urban micro fulfilment centres

城市仓库、黑店（实体店履行客户和附近其他商店的送货和提货订单）和微型履行中心目前装备不足，无法处理大量在线订单、客户提货和送货以及供应链波动，大多数依赖人工流程，时间、人力资源和成本压力增加，以保持竞争力。Sonodot将与巴斯大学智能仓储和物流系统中心合作，为黑暗商店和城市履行中心设计一种新颖的智能仓储解决方案，解决由于订单时间短和复杂性而带来的关键挑战，客户倾向于在未来一小时内交付，现在甚至可以缩短至10分钟的提货时间。该解决方案将基于Sonodot的现状，先进的室内/室外跟踪技术，可持续监控物料搬运车辆（叉车）、设备（条形码扫描仪）和拣选员在仓库中的任何位置的移动。将开发非常低功率的无线硬件以便于安装和降低维护成本，同时开发创新的动态路由算法以增加约束（例如，配送时间、与交付服务和客户取货的同步、分区、路线和拣选优化），这些都是基于仓库布局和城市暗店和微型履行中心的运营数据输入。新的功能和工具将被快速开发，并与Sonodot的高性能位置智能平台、仓库管理系统和最后一英里交付服务集成，以提供实时数据洞察，使运营和仓库管理人员能够围绕订单优先级、安全、人力和资源/车队利用率做出更好的决策，以提高效率和性能，并降低运营成本。

Urban warehouses, dark stores (where physical stores fulfil orders for delivery and pickup from customers and other nearby stores) and micro-fulfilment centres are currently ill-equipped to handle the high volumes of online orders, customer pick-ups and deliveries, and supply chain fluctuations, with most relying on manual processes with added time, human resource and cost pressures to remain competitive. In collaboration with the University of Bath's Centre for Smart Warehousing and Logistics Systems, Sonodot will design a novel Smart Warehousing solution tailored for dark stores and urban fulfilment centres, addressing key challenges created by the short time frame and complexity of orders with customer trends towards next hour deliveries and now even as short as 10-minute pick-up times.The solution will be based on Sonodot's state-of-the-art indoor/outdoor tracking technology to continually monitor the movements of material handling vehicles (forklift trucks), equipment (barcode scanners) and order pickers wherever they are in a warehouse. Very low power wireless hardware will be developed for ease of installation and reduced maintenance cost, alongside innovative dynamic routing algorithms to add constraints (e.g., dispatch times, synchronisation with delivery services and customers pick-ups, zoning, routing and picking optimisation) based on warehouse layout and operational data inputs specific to urban dark stores and micro-fulfilment centres. New functionality and tools will be rapidly developed and integrated with Sonodot's high-performance location intelligence platform, warehouse management systems and last-mile delivery services to provide real-time data insights, allowing operations and warehouse managers to make better decisions around order prioritisation, safety, human labour and resource/fleet utilisation to improve efficiency and performance, and reduce operational costs.