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Managing allocation of storages in fulfillment center

Grant US12579511B1 Kind: B1 Mar 17, 2026

Assignee

Coupang Corp.

Inventors

Matthew Cornford, Bragadesh Rajaraman, Xiufang Zhu, Venkataraja Nellore

Abstract

A method for managing storage allocation in a warehouse includes obtaining inventory data including SKUs, determining a sales velocity of each of the SKUs, generating a storage allocation plan that assigns each SKU to a particular storage system among a plurality of storage systems and a particular slot of the particular storage system based on at least one of the sales velocity of the SKU, the temperature zone of the storage system, or a capacity of a transportation device of the storage system, and transmitting the storage allocation plan to the transportation device to move products corresponding to the SKUs in accordance with the storage allocation plan.

CPC Classifications

G06Q 10/087 G06Q 10/08 G06Q 10/06311 G06Q 10/06315 G06Q 20/203 G06Q 30/0639 G06Q 10/0833 G06Q 10/0631 G06Q 30/0631 G06Q 10/083 G06Q 10/0832 G06Q 10/04 G06Q 30/02 G06Q 30/06 G06Q 10/0637

Filing Date

2025-04-25

Application No.

19189543

Claims

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