01 — At a glance
At a glance
- 01Solution: Batch Shipping and Picking (ForgeSolutionz)
- 02Platform: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
- 03Built for: warehouse and dispatch teams, operations managers, and any business that ships many orders a day
- 04The problem: creating shipments and picks one order at a time takes dozens of clicks and a lot of patience
- 05The fix: select many orders. Batch make shipments, batch make picks, then print all the picks together
- 06Closing the loop: batch register picks and batch post shipments once the goods are collected
- 07What your team does: select orders, click three times, start picking
02 — Problem
The problem: a team that knows exactly what to do, one click at a time
Shipping an order is not complicated. The system needs to know four things, in order:
- 01Make the shipment. Tell the system these goods are going out.
- 02Make the pick. Tell the warehouse what to collect.
- 03Register the pick. Confirm what was actually collected.
- 04Post the shipment. Tell the system the goods have left.
Four steps are fine for one order. The trouble starts on a Monday morning with a hundred of them, each opened, clicked through and closed individually. Routing makes it worse, because orders for the same route need to go out together.
“Your warehouse team did not train for years to become professional button pushers. And yet here we are.”
This happens in every kind of business: a distributor with a full dock, a retailer on a deadline, a manufacturer loading trucks by route, a medical supplier whose orders cannot wait. It is not carelessness. It is a process built for one order at a time, asked to handle many.
03 — Solution
The fix: tell the system once, let it do the rest
Batch Shipping and Picking adds bulk actions to the steps you already use. You choose the orders. The system does the repeating.
- 01Select the orders. Pick everything due today, or everything for one route.
- 02Click 1: make shipments. A shipment is created for every selected order.
- 03Click 2: make picks. Picks are created for all those shipments in one go.
- 04Click 3: print picks. Every pick sheet comes out together, ready for the floor.
When the goods have been collected, the same idea closes the loop. Batch register picks confirms what was collected. Batch post shipments tells the system the goods are on their way.
04 — Features
Key features, in plain language
- 01Batch make shipments: create shipments for many orders at once, instead of opening each order in turn.
- 02Batch make picks: create the picks for all those shipments with one click.
- 03Print picks together: one print job, one neat stack. No more printing pick sheets one at a time.
- 04Batch register picks: confirm many completed picks in one action.
- 05Batch post shipments: post all the ready shipments together, so stock and records stay current.
- 06Built on standard steps: same four stages as the usual Business Central warehouse flow. Your team keeps the process they know.
05 — The savings
What the saving looks like
Think of a click as a very small tax. Pay it once and nobody notices. Pay it twelve hundred times and it becomes someone's whole morning. The chart below uses a simple sample model, and your own numbers will differ, but the shape will not.
06 — Gains
What your business gains
- 01Faster dispatch. Orders reach the warehouse floor sooner, so cut-off times and trucks stop being a daily drama.
- 02Fewer slips. Fewer manual steps means fewer chances to skip a step, open the wrong order or post too early.
- 03Hours back every week. Time spent clicking goes back to picking, packing and shipping.
- 04Room to grow. Double your orders without doubling your admin. The three clicks stay three.
- 05A calmer team. People spend the day moving goods, not hunting for the next button.
- 06Happier customers. Orders leave on time, and they arrive when you said they would.
07 — Who it's for
Who it is built for
Any business that ships physical goods from a warehouse, whatever its size or industry:
- 01Warehouse and dispatch teams who create shipments and picks all day and would like their afternoons back.
- 02Operations managers who want faster, more predictable order flow without hiring more admin.
- 03Distributors, wholesalers and retailers with busy daily cut-offs and seasonal peaks.
- 04Manufacturers and construction suppliers loading trucks by route.
- 05Healthcare, food and industrial suppliers where speed and accuracy both matter.
08 — Scenario
A realistic scenario
Illustrative example of a common pattern. It is not a named client, and the numbers are samples.
A growing distributor starts every Monday with a long list of weekend orders. Two people spend most of the morning creating shipments, then picks, then printing, one order at a time. The trucks are ready at ten. The pick sheets are not.
Nobody is slow. The process is. By the time the last pick is printed, the first customers are already asking where their goods are.
With batch shipping and picking, the same team selects the weekend orders, clicks three times and hands out the pick sheets before the kettle has finished boiling. The warehouse walk is unchanged. The morning is not.
09 — Get started
How we get you started
- 01Free consultation. Thirty minutes with a senior engineer to understand how you ship and pick today.
- 02Fit check. We confirm the solution suits your warehouse setup and which orders and routes to start with.
- 03Install and test. We set it up in a safe test environment first and check results with real orders.
- 04Go live and hand over. Your team learns the three clicks, and we stay close in case anything needs tuning.
10 — FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- 01What is Batch Shipping and Picking? A Business Central solution that creates shipments and picks for many orders at once, prints the picks together, and lets you register picks and post shipments in bulk.
- 02How many clicks does it save? Three clicks cover making shipments, making picks and printing them for the whole selection. By hand, each order needs its own run through the steps, so the saving grows with every order.
- 03Is it only for large warehouses? No. Small teams often gain the most, because one person usually does all the paperwork. The bigger your order count, the bigger the saving.
- 04Will it change how my team physically picks goods? No. The walk to the shelves stays the same. What changes is how the pick documents are created and printed.
- 05Can we still handle a single order on its own? Yes. The standard order-by-order steps are still there for the one-off urgent order.
- 06Does it work for any type of business? It suits any business that ships physical goods and creates shipments and picks in Business Central, from distributors and retailers to manufacturers and suppliers.
11 — Check
Your 2-minute check
Tick what sounds like you. Two or more means batch shipping and picking is likely to pay for itself in saved time:
- 01Your team creates shipments and picks one order at a time
- 02Dispatch mornings are mostly clicking, not shipping
- 03Orders are grouped by route or day, but the paperwork is not
- 04Pick sheets are printed one by one
- 05Busy days mean overtime in the office, not just the warehouse
