Automate Order Consolidation and Pick Optimization
ShipHawk WMS supports automated order consolidation, order release rules, and pick optimization to increase your throughput
Let's Talk!60% of the day should not be spent walking around a warehouse
Without warehouse optimization, unnecessary travel time accounts for up to 60% of a picker’s time each day. By automating order consolidation, order release rules, and pick strategies, businesses can embrace warehouse best practices and leverage:
- Continuous wave optimization
- Prioritized orders based on your own business needs
- Improved inventory accuracy with interleaved cycle counting
- Minimized travel in the warehouse
- Automated allocation strategies
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Continuous order consolidation
By automatically consolidating orders, ShipHawk WMS finds unreleased orders and groups them based on like attributes to reduce shipping costs, improve efficiency, and increase customer satisfaction. Examples of grouping attributes include:
- SKU or item family
- Carrier service and mode
- Size and weight
- Zone, line, or number of units
- Customer priority
- Order type (batch orders, Amazon Prime, wholesale orders, hazardous, etc)
Create order release groups and rules that work for you
Releasing orders doesn’t have to be a manual process. Advanced warehouse management platforms let you create order release groups and rules based on your business needs. ShipHawk WMS continuously updates order groups until the moment the orders are released to a picker, ensuring each order is released with the most efficient pick path possible and according to your own prioritization levels. Warehouse managers have reported saving anywhere from 4-5 hours each day by automating order release management and wave creation.
Advanced order picking software
ShipHawk WMS leverages paperless order pick strategies that reduce the number of trips warehouse employees need to make to fulfill orders by optimizing pick paths based on location. Pick strategies we recommend include:
- Batch and super batch picking
- Cluster picking
- Wave picking
- Consolidation picking
- Order picking
When pickers can’t find the item they’re looking for, they’re able to submit a short pick to confirm how much of the item can be picked and the system will suggest an alternate bin when available. Additionally, you can also interleave cycle counts into your pick paths to support better inventory accuracy without adding time to daily pick tasks.
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Our order release and picking efficiency have seen huge improvements. Before we had ShipHawk WMS, a supervisor spent hours each day building waves, which went from more than half of her day to periodic reviews taking minutes, if not seconds, to review and release. Douglas Hunter, Warehouse Operations Manager at Spyderco.