Wave Planning
Orders grouped into waves that respect SLAs and minimise travel.
Wave Planning turns an order pool into a pick programme: waves that never cross an SLA cutoff, stay within labour and zone capacity, and overlap their pick locations so travel collapses.
~20%
travel reduction vs first-come-first-served
published batching benchmarks
0
waves that span an SLA cutoff
How it works
Wave Planning, in three moves.
Releasing orders first-come-first-served is the most expensive default in fulfilment. Awarehouse buckets by SLA first, then grows waves from orders that share aisles, under labour and line caps. Published benchmarks put well-designed batching around 20% less travel — the floor we engineer against.
01
Bucket
Orders split by SLA cutoff first. Deadlines are constraints, not suggestions.
02
Cluster
Within each bucket, orders that share aisles and zones grow into waves under labour and line caps.
03
Price & release
Each wave carries its travel and labour estimate. Release with confidence — downstream plans update automatically.
Capabilities
- SLA-cutoff bucketing — a wave never spans a deadline
- Seed-and-grow clustering on aisle and zone overlap
- Caps per wave: lines, orders, labour minutes, zones touched
- Order-splitting policy control: atomic orders never split
- Per-wave travel and labour estimates on real geometry
- SLA-risk flags with the offending orders identified