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- Patent Title: Product movement and distribution systems and methods
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Application No.: US15471297Application Date: 2017-03-28
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Publication No.: US10535040B2Publication Date: 2020-01-14
- Inventor: Andrew J. Rizkallah , Thomas E. Lazzaro , Justin P. Dillane
- Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Applicant Address: US AR Bentonville
- Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Current Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US AR Bentonville
- Agency: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP
- Main IPC: G06F7/00
- IPC: G06F7/00 ; G06Q10/08 ; G06Q30/06

Abstract:
Some embodiments provide systems, apparatuses, and methods to direct the consolidation of products in fulfilling a product order for a retail shopping facility. In some embodiments, a system is configured to identify a shipment order for products to be delivered to a shopping facility and that includes a request for a full pull pallet of a first product and additional products; define the full pull pallet as an enhanced case intended to be treated by an orderfiller worker as less than a full pull pallet; generate a pallet assembly list identifying the enhanced case and the items of a plurality of the additional products; and communicate the pallet assembly list to a user interface unit to be accessible by an orderfiller worker and directing the orderfiller worker to retrieve and cooperate the enhanced case and the additional products as an assembled pallet.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170286907A1 PRODUCT MOVEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS Public/Granted day:2017-10-05
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