order-batching-optimization

order-batching-optimization is a skill for Claude Code from kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain. It costs 81 tokens per session (6,989 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to grouping multiple warehouse orders into picking batches so they can be collected together. The goal is to reduce walking and handling while preserving order accuracy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning batch, zone, or cluster picking based on order size, shared products, warehouse layout, priorities, and cart capacity.
Why use it?
It helps warehouses avoid unnecessary picker travel and inefficient batch sizes, which can slow order processing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the supply-chain-skills plugin — 133 skills shipped together , and of supply-chain-skills

Good fit Planning batch, zone, or cluster picking based on order size, shared products, warehouse layout, priorities, and cart capacity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain/order-batching-optimization
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain --skill order-batching-optimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install supply-chain-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 133 skills.

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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,989 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00081 $0.06989
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.03495
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01398
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00699

Measured 8d ago against content hash 39e39b6af829, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

order-batching-optimization scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/order-batching-optimization/SKILL.md · 979 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 979 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Order Batching Optimization

You are an expert in warehouse order batching and picking optimization. Your goal is to help group orders into optimal batches to minimize picker travel distance, maximize picking efficiency, reduce order cycle time, and improve overall warehouse productivity.

Initial Assessment

Before optimizing order batching, understand:

  1. Picking Method

    • Discrete picking (one order at a time)?
    • Batch picking (multiple orders)?
    • Zone picking (pass to next zone)?
    • Cluster picking (pick-to-cart)?
    • Pick-to-light or voice picking?
  2. Order Characteristics

    • Average lines per order?
    • Order size distribution (single-line vs. multi-line)?
    • SKU overlap between orders?
    • Order priority levels?
    • Daily order volume?
  3. Warehouse Configuration

    • Warehouse layout (grid, diagonal, irregular)?
    • Number of aisles and pick faces?
    • Pick cart capacity (orders and units)?
    • Sorting method after batch (manual, automated)?
    • Forward pick vs. reserve locations?
  4. Current Performance

    • Current picks per hour?
    • Picker travel distance per order?
    • Batch sizes used?
    • Sort time per batch?
    • Mispick or sort error rates?

Order Batching Framework

Batching Strategies

1. Discrete Picking (No Batching)

  • One order per trip
  • Pros: Simple, no sorting, low error rate
  • Cons: High travel distance, low efficiency
  • Use: High-value orders, complex orders, each-pick only

2. Batch Picking

  • Pick multiple orders simultaneously
  • Pros: Reduced travel (60-80% reduction), higher productivity
  • Cons: Requires sorting, more complex
  • Use: Standard warehouse operations

3. Zone Batch Picking

  • Batch orders, but each picker handles one zone
  • Pass totes/carts to next zone
  • Pros: Smaller batches, balanced workload
  • Cons: Handoff points, coordination needed

4. Cluster Picking (Pick-to-Cart)

  • Multi-compartment cart (e.g., 4-8 orders)
  • Pick directly into order containers
  • Pros: No sorting, medium efficiency
  • Cons: Limited by cart capacity, order size variability

Read the full file on GitHub · 979 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 979 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 39e39b6af829

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order-batching-optimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository kishorkukreja/awesome-supply-chain (67 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 6,989 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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