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In most warehouses, pickers spend more time walking than picking. Location-Aware Picking combines AI Path Optimization and Smart Batching to cut walking distance by up to 33%, increase pick density per trip, and turn your existing team into a higher-throughput operation without extra hardware or downtime.
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A digital map of your warehouse, shelving, aisles and locations is created.
Calculates the most efficient travel paths for pickers, reducing walking time and boosting productivity.
Groups orders in the most optimal way to maximize pick density and minimize travel, ensuring that pickers stay in action longer.
Your pickers are busy. But are they busy picking? In most warehouses, they are just walking, sometimes covering 10+ miles per shift, crisscrossing aisles for scattered SKUs. That's labor hours burned on footsteps, not fulfillment. With this feature, ShipHero changes the math.
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Location-Aware Picking is a native ShipHero capability that eliminates randomness from warehouse travel. Using AI built directly into your WMS — no third-party integrations required — it calculates the most efficient pick sequence across your actual bin layout and groups orders by physical proximity rather than just order age.
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ShipHero Location-Aware Picking integrates advanced AI into our WMS, enhancing two key functionalities:
Your warehouse floor, live. Every picker, every path, every deviation from the optimized route. See which aisles are congested, which pickers are off-route, and where throughput is stalling, all in real time. It's the control tower visibility that lets supervisors intervene before a slow batch becomes a missed SLA.
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Stop paying for travel time. Cut walking distance up to 33% and convert miles of wasted movement into hours of active fulfillment. Your team spends their shift picking, not commuting between aisles.
Pick faster and smarter. Smart Batching groups orders by location proximity rather than just order age, allowing your team to process more orders and more items per shift.
Increase your total throughput without increasing your headcount. Location-Aware Picking allows your existing team to absorb 20%+ more volume, helping you navigate seasonal spikes without the "panic-hiring" cycle.
AI Path Optimization sequences every pick for the most direct route. By supporting partial aisle traversal and intelligent sequencing, you remove the backtracking serpentine that leads to picker fatigue and errors.
No scanners, no conveyors, no implementation project. Because Location-Aware Picking is built natively into ShipHero WMS, you turn it on and it works with your existing warehouse layout and team. Enterprise-grade path optimization, without the enterprise implementation timeline.
Location-Aware Picking is an AI-driven optimization engine within ShipHero WMS that eliminates the randomness of warehouse travel. By combining AI Path Optimization and Smart Batching, it ensures your pickers are working in the most efficient way possible.
Our system maps your existing bin and aisle structure directly from your WMS data. It calculates the physical distance between locations, including the ability to perform partial aisle traversal (entering an aisle, picking, and exiting without walking the full length). It then automatically sequences picks into a single, non-backtracking route.
Traditional picking groups orders by time (oldest first), which often forces pickers to zigzag across the entire warehouse for a single batch. Location-Aware Picking prioritizes location density. It groups orders that are physically near each other, allowing pickers to clear entire zones and collect more SKUs per trip, which drastically reduces picker fatigue and travel time.
Labor is your highest variable cost in the warehouse. By cutting walking distance by up to 33%, Location-Aware Picking lets your current team fulfill significantly more orders per shift — reducing your cost-per-pick and giving you the capacity to absorb seasonal spikes without panic-hiring.
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