When you start looking into "waveless" order fulfillment many tech-laden terms crop up, like optimization, algorithms and warehouse execution system (WES) solutions. But peel away the technology, and waveless is really about a smoother, pull-based way of processing work in warehouses and distribution centers, say those involved with the trend. "Waveless is a different way of thinking about things," says Jay Moris, president of Invata, which offers WES software. "It's letting certain resources pull available work into them, rather than having some predetermined master system that divides work into big chunks to try to push work through the system."
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