Allocated, picked on a phone, packed, and handed to a truck.
Typed by hand, pasted from a spreadsheet, or placed by the client — allocation does not care which.
A line without enough stock does not stop the order.
Allocation reads FIFO or FEFO depending on the item, reserves what is available, and holds the rest as a backorder that releases itself the next time stock lands. Nobody has to notice and re-key the line by hand. The order itself can arrive typed at a desk, pasted as fifty rows from a spreadsheet, or placed by the client from their own portal — allocation runs the same way regardless of where the order came from.
Group orders into a picking batch.
One walk, several stops, several orders — sorted the way the floor is walked, not the order the lines were typed.
| Stop | Location | Item | Qty | Picked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A-02-1 | GC-SERUM-10SO-2026-01188 | 24 | 24 |
| 2 | A-14-2 | KB-SHEET-24SO-2026-01188 | 60 | 60 |
| 4 | B-07-4 | RC-NOODLE-CSSO-2026-01201 | 22 | 20 |
Counted off the location as it goes.
A short pick stays short on the screen, reported to the order it belongs to, rather than a full carton discovered wrong at the dock. A picker’s phone does not accept a scan for an item that is not on the list.
The carton is the unit. The bill of lading is the handoff.
A carton is not sealed against thin air.
Every item scanned into a carton is checked against what allocation reserved for it — a wrong item does not get sealed in because nobody noticed. Each carton has an internal Carton ID and a record of its contents. Print the packing slip and bill of lading for the load. Retailer-specific GS1/SSCC labels require separate validation.
Dispatch reads the same order.
A load handed to your own fleet appears on the same dispatch board a driver already checks, without a separate hand-off screen or a second copy of the order.
The BOL does not change shape.
An outside trucking company or LTL carrier picks up against the same bill of lading a driver on your own payroll would sign — the document, not the fleet, is what shipping produces.
A button that does nothing is worse than a button that is missing.
One of the twenty release checks, check_dead_controls, fails a build for a control that can be pressed but has nothing behind it.
Find the location behind the task.
Use Floor Studio to prepare your storage locations and labels. In daily operations, the warehouse map helps your team find recorded products and task destinations.
An order, allocated to shipped, on an ordinary phone.
A real order, allocated FEFO, picked and packed live, and one line shorted on purpose to see what the screen does. 45 minutes.