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Pick waves are groups of shipments whose items can be gathered (“picked”) by fulfillers or store associates at the same time, usually based on similar product type or location. Using a wave will update the status of all shipments in the wave once picking is complete. This allows fulfillers to efficiently gather items, validate stock, and prepare orders.

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 Pick lists are internal documents generated by the Fulfiller UI for either individual pickup orders or pick waves that store associates can use as a reference when collecting items to prepare for a customer. Pickup (BOPIS) shipments have Print Pick List as a necessary step in their fulfillment flow, while Ship to Home (STH) shipments can be added to the lists of pick waves during wave generation. Packing slips are a page of printed order information that is included in a shipment package when it is shipped to a customer, and thus are only used in Ship to Home fulfillment.

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STH vs. BOPIS Picking

In STH fulfillment, the fulfiller can pick items in bulk as part of a wave or as a single shipment. There is no specific step in the standard business process manager flow that is dedicated to picking; this occurs as part of the Validate Stock step. Once the fulfiller confirms stock and has the items in hand, the packing slip can be printed and added to the package. Pick waves are most common at larger fulfillers with a higher concentration of shipment. A pick sheet can be printed or viewed digitally, then merchandise is picked for all shipments and the items are sorted into their packages. On the other hand, a BOPIS shipment has a “Print Pick List” step that requires the pick list to be viewed before stock can be validated by the fulfiller. This shipment can be added to a wave or have its own pick sheet printed to be collected by itself.  See the process flows below for a visual depiction of these differences.  Diagram of the Ship to Home picking process workflow Diagram of the BOPIS (Pickup) picking process workflow

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STH Shipment Behavior

Note that for STH, the packing slip can be printed during the pick process by checking “Print packing slip” during pick wave creation. When a pick wave is closed, its shipments will be immediately moved into the Prepare for Shipment step by default. If you want to change the BPM step that shipments are moved to, Kibo can configure your implementation to adjust that behavior. Please contact Kibo Support. Note that if you set your preferred BPM step to Print Packing Slip, then fulfillers do not need to check the “Print packing slip” option when creating the pick wave.

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Enable Pick and Pack

Before using picking and packing in the Fulfiller UI, those features must be enabled for a location group.
  1. This configuration is located in the Admin UI at Orders > Location Groups.
  2. Select the appropriate location group to open its details and then click Config Settings. 
  3. Scroll down to Other Settings and Enable Pick and Pack using the checkbox.
  4. Click Save in the top right.
Close-up of the Other Settings section with Enable Pick and Pack toggles enabled If you intend to split packing slips, then “Auto generate packing list” must be disabled. If enabled, then it will trigger packing slips to print automatically and so you will not be able to create multiple slips for different packages in one shipment.