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order-consolidation

order-consolidation is the alternative spelling of order consolidation.

Meaning of order consolidation

Noun

order consolidation (usually uncountable, plural order consolidations)

  1. (usually, logistics) An order picking method where several orders are arranged in a single shipment.
    • In this paper we describe and model in general terms the composite design and operating problems for a typical order-consolidation warehouse. These problems include warehouse layout, equipment and technology selection, item location, zoning, picker routing, pick list generation and order batching.1992 April 10, Ann E. Gray, Uday S. Karmarkar and Abraham Seidmann, “Design and operation of an order-consolidation warehouse: Models and application”, in European Journal of Operational Research...
    Synonyms:
    co-packing

Forms of order-consolidation

pluralorder-consolidations

Questions about order-consolidation

What is order-consolidation the alternative spelling of?
Order-consolidation is the alternative spelling of order consolidation.

Words near order-consolidation in the dictionary

  1. order trees
  2. order type
  3. order types
  4. order up
  5. order'd
  6. order-consolidation
  7. order-consolidations
  8. order-in-council
  9. order-mark
  10. order-type
  11. order-types

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Adapted from Wiktionary: order-consolidation (page history and authors); order consolidation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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