Grey Orange

What is Grey Orange?

Grey Orange specializes in robotic fulfillment solutions. Their core offerings include autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and a cloud-based software platform called GreyMatter. These systems work together to automate material movement, order picking, and inventory management within warehouses.

What does this integration include?

Warehouse Management solutions provide clients with direct integration with Grey Orange for picking, putaway, and inventory management flows. This integration enables REST communication between Grey Orange and Warehouse Management with messages in standard JSON format.

Picking

After orders are cubed into optimal shipping containers, WM is responsible for releasing work to the floor for order fulfillment considering the availability of resources. Upon release WM exchanges picking details with Locus. Locus optimization assigns the picking details to carts for execution. During the picking process Locus sends necessary data back to WM for picking confirmation. This process supports both pick direct to shipping container and pick to tote flows. Messages included are:

  • Pick Expectation – Sent from WM to Grey Orange with picking details.
    • Pick Transactional Notification – Sent from Grey Orange to WM to confirm each individual picks within a task. This does not contain short information.
    • Pick Release/Inventory Awaited Notification - Sent from Grey Orange to WM to notify the entire pick tasks is completed. This contains partial or full short information.
  • Pick Cancel – Sent from WM to Grey Orange when a pick allocation is cancelled.

Putaway

After inventory is received, WM is responsible for releasing work to the floor for putaway considering the availability of resources and storage locations within a warehouse. Upon allocation to Grey Orange managed locations, WM exchanges allocation details with Grey Orange. Grey Orange optimization assigns the allocation details to Grey Orange storage locations for execution. During the putaway process, Grey Orange sends necessary data back to WM for putaway confirmation. Messages included are:

  • Put Expectation - Sent from WM to Grey Orange with putaway allocation details.
    • Put Complete - Sent from Grey Orange to WM to confirm putaway.
  • Put Cancel - Sent from WM to Grey Orange to cancel putaway.

Inventory Management

WM needs to keep track of inventory levels in Grey Orange managed locations. This is achieved by requesting inventory sync from Grey Orange. Additionally, inventory adjustments occurring due to processes such as counting are fed back to WM by Grey Orange.

  • Inventory Sync Request - Sent from WM to Grey Orange to get inventory sync based on the scheduler.
  • Inventory Sync - Sent from Grey Orange to WM to sync inventory.
  • Inventory Transaction - Sent from Grey Orange to WM to adjust inventory.