Tote picking through the App

Overview

This article explains tote picking (also called consolidated picking), an enhanced picking option where the picker sorts items into individual order totes while picking, rather than grouping everything together for sorting later.

Benefits of tote picking

Reduces walking — the picker covers multiple orders in a single pass without revisiting the same location repeatedly.
Speeds up despatch — items arrive at the packing bench already sorted by order.
When pickwave sizes are optimised, the packer and picker work at a matching pace so a new trolley arrives as soon as the previous one is done.
In some cases, the tote can be replaced with the final shipping packaging, so items go directly into the box they will be despatched in.

Before you begin

Create barcodes for each tote labelled A, B, C, and so on. Each trolley must have its own complete set of totes — you cannot split a set across trolleys.

How tote picking works

As the picker moves through the pickwave, items are placed into the labelled totes on the trolley — one tote per order.

Example

4 orders are on a pickwave:

Order	Items
Order 1	1 x SKU A, 1 x SKU B
Order 2	1 x SKU A, 1 x SKU B, 1 x SKU C
Order 3	1 x SKU A, 1 x SKU C
Order 4	2 x SKU B, 1 x SKU C

The pickwave totals: 3 x SKU A, 4 x SKU B, 3 x SKU C.

The picker arrives at the SKU A location and is instructed to pick 3 units:

The app instructs where to place each unit:

Place 1 unit in Tote A (Order 1)
Place 1 unit in Tote B (Order 2)
Place 1 unit in Tote C (Order 3)

The picker scans the tote barcode to confirm each placement, then moves to the next location.

At SKU B the picker picks 4 units and places them:

1 unit in Tote A (Order 1)
1 unit in Tote B (Order 2)
2 units in Tote D (Order 4)

At SKU C the picker picks 3 units and places them:

1 unit in Tote B (Order 2)
1 unit in Tote C (Order 3)
1 unit in Tote D (Order 4)

Picking is now complete. Each tote contains the correct items for its order.

Despatching the orders

Despatch is done on the main StoreFeeder UI, not the app.

Bring the trolley to the packing bench.
Open the pickwave in the main system and use the Scan Products function to despatch the orders.
Work through Tote A to Tote Z in order:
- Take any item from Tote A and scan it. If it is the only item in the order, the order despatches immediately. If more items are needed, a screen lists the remaining items to scan — all of which are in Tote A.
- Once all items in a tote are scanned, the order despatches.
- Repeat for Tote B, Tote C, and so on.