Feature
Select Bin
Determine which type of bin would provide the best fit for the items to be shipped by choosing the bin that results in the highest utilization. Selects the smallest bin in which all the provided items will fit. This can be used in order to determine what kind of bin would be most efficient to pack your goods in. The response also contains all the information that would be needed to make use of packing visualization.
Answers Questions Such As
- We have many different pallet sizes available; which combination of pallets should we use?
- Box assortment analysis; what is the smallest box type that best fits our historical orders?
- Looking at my historical orders, which bin size is actually rarely needed?
- Where in the bin should we place our items?
Noteable Features
- Specify multiple bin sizes to be evaluated at once.
- Specify allowedRotations for each item to prevent unwanted item rotations.
- Provide additional item stacking restrictions by including a stackingStyle.
- Bottom-up or side-to-side packing by specifying the required packingDirection.
Response
{
"requiredNrOfBins": 1,
"totalVolumeUtil": 51.02,
"totalWeightUtil": 26.667,
"packedBins": [
{
"id": 1,
"type": "box-small",
"width": 0.1,
"depth": 0.07,
"height": 0.07,
"maxVolume": 0.00049,
"actualVolume": 0.00025,
"actualVolumeUtil": 51.02,
"maxWeight": 7.5,
"actualWeight": 2,
"actualWeightUtil": 26.667,
"furthestPointWidth": 0.1,
"furthestPointDepth": 0.05,
"furthestPointHeight": 0.05,
"nrOfItems": 2,
"fittedItems": [
{
"id": "i2",
"width": 0.05,
"depth": 0.05,
"height": 0.05,
"volume": 0.000125,
"weight": 1,
"xCoordinate": 0,
"yCoordinate": 0,
"zCoordinate": 0,
"allowedRotations": "012345",
"rotationType": 0,
"rotationTypeDescription": "No rotation"
},
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