Managing delivery of environmentally sensitive products

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017352000-A1
Application number	US-201715663366-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 28, 2017
Priority date	Jun 3, 2016
Publication date	Dec 7, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

A tool, executed by one or more computer processors, including identifying at least one product in a shipment for delivery, wherein the at least one product is identified in a shipping manifest and extracting from the shipping manifest, the required amount of storage space for the product and the one or more environmental conditions required for storage of the product at the receiving location. The tool includes determining a storage space location for delivery of the product at the receiving location, wherein the storage space location provides the one or more environmental conditions required for the product. The tool includes providing the determined storage space location to a deliverer of the product and notifying a supplier sending the product, a receiver at the receiving location, and the deliverer who placed the product in the determined storage space location.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method comprising:
identifying, by one or more computer processors, at least one product in a shipment for delivery, wherein the at least one product is identified in a shipping manifest, the shipping manifest including at least one of a product name for the at least one product or a product number for the at least one product in the shipment, a quantity of the at least one product in the shipment, a quantity of each of one or more shipping container sizes for the at least one product in the shipment, a required amount of storage space for the at least one product in the shipment, an identifier for each shipping container of the at least one product in the shipment, one or more environmental conditions required for storage of the at least one product in the shipment, and the receiving location for the at least one product; extracting, by one or more computer processors, from the shipping manifest, the required amount of storage space for the at least one product and the one or more environmental conditions required for storage of the at least one product at the receiving location, wherein the one or more environmental conditions required for storage of the at least one product include one or more of a required temperature, a humidity level, a vibration level, and an atmosphere condition; determining, by one or more computer processors, a storage space location for delivery of the at least one product at the receiving location, wherein determining the storage space location includes creating a request to one of a warehouse management system or a user responsible for storage space to create the required amount of storage space at a storage space location for the at least one product at the receiving location, wherein the storage space location provides the one or more environmental conditions required for the at least one product; providing, by one or more computer processors, the determined storage space location at the receiving location to a deliverer of the at least one product wherein providing further includes providing access to the determined storage space location to the deliverer at an expected arrival time for delivery of the at least one product and determining, at delivery, an identifier determined from a scan of at least one of the at least one shipping container of the at least one product matches an identifier of at least one shipping container of the least one product extracted from the shipping manifest; scanning, by one or more computer processors, each of the at least one shipping container of the at least one product delivered to the determined storage space location; recording, by one or more computer processors, a location of each of the scanned at least one shipping container of the at least one product delivered to the determined storage space location; comparing, by one or more computer processors, the location of each of the scanned at least one shipping container of the at least one product delivered and the determined storage space location of the at least one product; in response to determining the location of at least one of the scanned at least one shipping container delivered does not match the location of the determined storage space location for each of the at least one product, sending, by one or more computer processors, an alert to a computing device used by the deliverer informing the deliverer of an error in the location of at least one of the scanned at least one shipping container; recording, by one or more computer processors, a quantity of the scanned at least one shipping container for each of the one or more shipping container sizes of the at least one product delivered to the determined storage space location; extracting, by one or more computer processors, the quantity of each of the one or more shipping container sizes of the at least one product for delivery from the shipping manifest; verifying, by one or more computer processors, whether the quantity of each of the scanned at least one shipping container for each of the one or more shipping container sizes of the at least one product delivered to the determined storage space location matches the extracted quantity of each of the one or more shipping container sizes of the at least one product for delivery from the shipping manifest; and in response to determining that the quantity of each of the scanned at least one shipping container for each of the one or more shipping container sizes of the at least one product matches the extracted quantity of each of the one or more shipping container sizes for the at least one product for delivery from the shipping manifest, notifying, by one or more computer processors, at least a supplier sending the at least one product, a receiver at the receiving location, and the deliverer who placed the at least one shipping container of the at least one product in the determined storage space location.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Bender Michael
• Childress Rhonda L
• Eckert Kim A
• Mcnair Ryan D

Classifications

• G06Q10/0832 Primary

  Special goods or special handling procedures, e.g. handling of hazardous or fragile goods · CPC title