Blog from January, 2025

Following successful beta testing, Pick to Tote is now generally available to all CartonCloud WMS users.

Pick to Tote optimises e-commerce fulfillment by enabling warehouse staff to simultaneously pick multiple small orders using a tote-based system. Each tote on the picking trolley corresponds to a specific order, allowing pickers to efficiently collect items for 10-30 orders in a single trip.

The system is specifically designed for high volume ecommerce orders, and includes:

• Simultaneous multi-order picking with designated totes, minimising travel time across the warehouse

• Real-time sorting guidance ensures accurate order allocation while maintaining high-speed picking

• Streamlined handling of large order volumes with improved resource efficiency

Pick to Tote is now automatically available in your CartonCloud system and no longer requires beta access or manual enablement by our team.

For more information on how to use this feature, visit our Knowledge Base.

CartonCloud has now introduced Warehouse Zones to Warehouse Locations. You are now able to group certain locations together as zones, and more efficiently plan warehouse operations, based off of these Zones.

Key functionality:

• Logical grouping of storage locations into defined zones, eg: Pick Faces

• Zone-based wave picking for optimised pick routes

• Zone-specific management for specialised storage requirements (cold storage, bulk areas, dangerous goods sections)

• Picker workload distribution based on zonal assignments

This feature establishes the foundation for upcoming Directed Putaway functionality (planned for Q2 2025), which will incorporate zone-based logic for product placement.

Note: The wave picking feature now includes zone-based filtering capabilities.

We’ve renamed the Warehouse Location “Group” field to “Charge Group”.

This change has been made to more accurately convey the purpose of this field, which is to treat all locations with the same “Charge Group” as a single warehouse location for the purposes of storage charging.

Additionally, we’ll soon be releasing a new Warehouse Location field called “Zone”, and we wanted to ensure this was not confused with the “Group” field.

For more information on Warehouse Location Charge Groups, refer to our Knowledge Base Article

We’ve added support for HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container) files within Documents and Photos on inbound when uploading via the web application.

HEIC is the default image file format used on Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac), however it has limited support outside the Apple ecosystem.

Previously, if users tried to upload an HEIC file it would be rejected as an unsupported filetype, requiring conversion to a supported filetype (ie: JPG) prior to upload. To make it easier, we’ve added an in-browser file converter which converts the HEIC file to JPG automatically. This maximises the image compatibility with other (non-Apple) devices and other applications.

Note: The CartonCloud mobile app would already convert HEIC files to JPG prior to upload.