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Pickingnoun

Retrieving items from storage to fulfil an order.

Picking is selecting and collecting items from their locations to fill a sales or transfer order. It is typically the most labour-intensive warehouse activity.

Picking strategies — discrete, batch, zone or wave — and good slotting cut the walking and handling that drive fulfilment cost.

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Warehouse Management

Related terms

Putaway

Moving received goods to their correct storage locations.

Slotting

Deciding where each item should be stored to optimise handling.

Bin Location

A specific addressable storage position within a warehouse.

More in Warehouse

Batch Picking Cross-Docking Dock-to-Stock Time Dock Scheduling Goods Issue Mobile Scanning Packing Slip Pallet

Picking is not just a definition here

Warehouse runs on this vocabulary every day in AWRA OpsHub — 19 of our 257 glossary terms describe things the platform actually does.

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