01 / Picking & fulfillment
Paperless picking that keeps the whole floor moving.
Metabox Orders groups OE Orders automatically, puts a live priority-sorted board in front of your team, and drives handheld picking validated by scan.
A live picking board your whole floor can work from.
Sage 300 OE picking
Orders combine directly from Sage 300 Order Entry. No separate order database to keep in sync.
Automatic grouping
Orders combine by matching ship date, ship-to location, terms and ship-via, so the floor picks by group rather than one order at a time.
Orders Ready to Ship board
A live, priority-sorted board visible to the whole floor, so anyone can see what’s next without asking.
zNext reserved stock
Hold stock for a client without warehouse staff seeing it on the board. It surfaces automatically once a matching standard order is picked.
Scan-validated picking
Committed versus picked quantities are tracked per line and validated by scan, not a manual checkbox.
Barcode printing
Print labels during the picking process itself, on your Zebra printer, exactly when they’re needed.
Step by step.
Orders combine
Matching orders group automatically on the board.
Pick the group
Floor staff select a priority group and start picking.
Scan to validate
Each line is picked by scan against committed quantity.
Hand off
Completing the pick creates an OE Shipment and packing slip.
The board sorts itself.
Priority comes from an order header field and drives both sort order and colour coding.
| RUSH | Sorts to the top of the board. |
| PICKUP | Customer collection, flagged separately. |
| STD | Standard priority, normal sort order. |
| zNext | Reserved stock, hidden until pulled into a matching pick. |
Why zNext matters
Most picking boards show every open order to everyone. zNext lets you reserve stock quietly — it appears only once a standard order in the same group is picked, then combines into that pick automatically.
Standalone-capable
Metabox Orders doesn’t require Shipments or Inventory to run. It works alongside either, with no hard dependency.
Ready to see the ORS board in action?
Pairs with Inventory and Shipments for a fully connected floor.