Glossary
Batch picking
Also called: wave picking
Definition
Collecting the items for several orders in one pass through the warehouse, then sorting them into individual orders at a packing station.
It trades a sorting step for far less walking, which is the dominant cost in most small warehouses. The trade becomes worthwhile somewhere around fifty orders a day, earlier if your storage is spread out.
It also increases the value of scan verification at packing, because items for several orders are in motion together.
Related terms
- Pick listThe document or screen telling a picker which items to collect, in which quantities, from which locations, ordered by an efficient route.
- Order Management System (OMS)Software that brings orders from every sales channel into one place and keeps a single authoritative stock number behind them, through invoicing, fulfilment and payment reconciliation.