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Wave Picking

Releasing groups of orders to the floor in scheduled waves.

Wave picking releases work in planned batches aligned to something external — a courier collection time, a delivery route, a shift start. Each wave is picked, packed and staged as a unit.

It synchronises the warehouse with dispatch instead of letting orders trickle out. The trade-off is that an order arriving just after a wave closes waits for the next one.

Wave 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.