Abstract: Systems for decanting inventory products from cases at a retail facility include a loading zone that receives products cases, decanting stations having associated containers with an amount of available space therein, and a decanting transport system that transports the product cases from the loading zone to the decanting stations and has sensors that obtain information relating to the product cases. A processor-based a control circuit receives from the sensors information relating to product cases being transported from the loading zone by the decanting transport system, selects a subset of the product cases, analyzes one or more business rules governing decanting to assign each product case in the subset to a decanting station, and causes the decanting transport system to divert each product case in the subset to its assigned decanting station based on the one or more business rules.

Abstract: Automated storage and retrieval systems for managing storage of inventory at a retail facility include a storage structure with storage locations configured to store containers that contain retail products, and a container transport system that transports the containers between the storage locations and a decanting station. A processor-based control circuit identifies a group of eligible containers for topping off (i.e., adding additional products) and determines a utilization value for each of the eligible containers. The control circuit determines an effort value for each of the eligible containers and ranks the eligible containers based on the utilization value and the effort value for each container. The control circuit then selects a subgroup from the eligible containers based on the rankings and causes the container transport system to transport each container in the subgroup of eligible containers from its respective storage location in the storage structure to the decanting station.