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Order Picking

What is an Order Picking?

Order picking is the process of finding or retrieving goods on the list of customer order from a warehouse. The picking process is one of the first stages of fulfilling the customer orders.

After the picking stage, the goods retrieved are forwarded to the remaining line of processes such as packaging, shipping and aftersales service.

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