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Calling ‘order’ on Inbound Goods

Logistics Business Magazine

The supplier, after all, isn’t presenting a chaotic mix of items just to be awkward – they will have their own constraints, for example on batch sizes and times, or on their own storage capacities.

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Order Planning and Batching (Chapter 3)

Camelot 3PL Software

This is Chapter 3 of 13 in our eBook on eCommerce Fulfillment for 3PL Warehouses. The ultimate magic in efficient operations happens during Order Planning and is the next principle: All work is done in batches. This leads to the final criteria of batching, which is the optimal batch size.