Wave picking is a warehouse order picking system where a worker will receive a picking list, and rather than walking back-and-forth, the items are grouped together by a common and specific order characteristics which can be zone, shipping priority, carrier,...

  In Part I of our “Picking Strategy and Tech” series, I mentioned that Distribution Centers are going to have to deal with more diverse order profiles in this new digital age as wholesale orders are changing from Pallet size orders to case size orders.  Digital...

  As consumer product companies “go digital” with orders coming from a growing list of omni-channel sources, order profiles are evolving rapidly. Often times these profiles are reduced to just a few items per order, and to meet these changing demands digital...