Wave planning to truck — the back half of the warehouse cycle.
Wave planning optimised against labour, equipment and SLA constraints. Pick strategies for zone, batch and cluster operations. Packing, manifesting, carrier integration and returns processing — engineered for high-throughput distribution and retail-fulfilment environments.
What outbound covers
Wave planning
Multi-criteria wave construction — SLA window, customer priority, equipment availability, labour profile, route consolidation. Waves run against the same data the financial statement reads.
Pick strategies
Zone, batch, cluster and discrete picking — pick paths optimised against the warehouse layout. Mobile-driven; voice-driven when throughput justifies it. The strategy is configuration, not custom code.
Packing & manifesting
Cartonisation rules, packing instructions, label generation, customs paperwork. Manifest data feeds the carrier integration; the audit trail records who packed which line and when.
Carrier integration
Carrier APIs, manifest files, shipping labels, tracking-number capture. Multi-carrier rate shopping where commercial; pre-allocated carrier where contractual.
Returns processing
Returns received against the original outbound order, inspected, restocked or scrapped, credit-note triggered. The return is the inverse transaction in the same audit trail.