SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME ORDER PROJECTION AND RELEASE

An order fulfillment control for a warehouse includes a controller, a memory, a current state storage, and a training module. The controller controls fulfillment activities and issues orders to pickers. The controller controls the issuance of the orders and records operational data corresponding to the fulfillment activities in the warehouse. The memory holds operational data. The current state storage holds live data corresponding to the current state of the warehouse defined by selected portions of the operational data. The inference module includes an order release control to issue an order release recommendation to the controller when a set of live data is received from the current state storage. The training module retrains the order release controls. The training module performs reinforcement learning on the operational data to retrain and update the order release control. The order release control is retrained based upon priorities for optimal operation of the warehouse.