Pick Ticket Wave Sorting
Pick tickets printed in aisle order, so pickers stop sorting paper by hand.
Problem
Consumer pick tickets printed in the order the orders came in. Before anyone could start picking, the stack had to be sorted by aisle by hand. After a weekend of orders on a Monday morning, that’s a big stack.
Approach
Business Central now emails each pick ticket as a PDF instead of printing it. Each PDF is saved to SharePoint, read, grouped into waves by aisle, and sent to the warehouse printer in walking order.
Printing is the one place a mistake turns into wasted paper and a confused picker, so most of the work went into guardrails. It skips files that are still saving, catches the same order showing up twice, and flags anything it can’t read instead of printing it. Daytime printing doesn’t change. Only the overnight batch gets sorted, so nothing the team relies on today breaks.
Result
- Built and tested end to end, now rolling out
- Pickers get a stack that’s already sorted by aisle
- Duplicates and unreadable tickets are flagged, never printed twice
- The existing daytime printing is left alone