Route Every Order to the Right Warehouse, Automatically
Managing fulfillment across multiple warehouses creates more flexibility, but it also introduces a new question for every incoming order: Which warehouse should ship it?
Choosing manually can mean checking inventory, comparing locations, reviewing client requirements, and moving orders between warehouses before fulfillment can even begin.
Order Routing automates that decision. With priority-based rules, Warehance can automatically route each new order based on destination, inventory availability, client requirements, shipping methods, SKUs, and more.
Build Routing Rules Around Your Operation
Order Routing uses simple if / then rules to determine where an order should go.
Rules are arranged by priority, and when a new order arrives, Warehance evaluates them from top to bottom. The first matching rule determines how the order is routed.
For example, you could create rules like:
- West Coast orders → Route to Reno
- Acme orders → Always route to Dallas
- Standard shipping → Route to the closest warehouse
- Oversized SKUs → Route to the warehouse equipped to handle them
This gives your team control over routing without requiring someone to manually review every order.
Route Based on Inventory Availability
The closest warehouse isn't always the best warehouse.
Order Routing can consider inventory availability when deciding where an order should go. If the closest location doesn't have the necessary stock, Warehance can route the order to another warehouse that can fulfill it.
When multiple warehouses qualify, you can use proximity or inventory availability to determine which location wins.
The result is smarter fulfillment decisions without the daily manual triage.
Automatically Split Orders When Needed
Sometimes no single warehouse has everything an order needs.
When enabled, Warehance can split eligible orders across multiple warehouses as long as the selected locations collectively have enough inventory to fulfill the entire order.
Each warehouse receives the portion it can fulfill, allowing orders to keep moving instead of waiting for inventory to be transferred or manually reassigned.
Use Location to Reduce Shipping Distance
Order Routing can also determine which warehouse is closest to the customer using shipping zones.
That makes it easy to build strategies around geographic proximity, helping reduce unnecessary shipping distance and improve delivery times.
You can combine location with other criteria too, such as shipping method, destination state, client, store, or SKU.
Test Before You Apply
Routing automation shouldn't require guesswork.
The Test an Order tool lets your team select a real order and preview exactly how your routing rules would handle it before making any changes.
You can see which rule matched, which conditions passed, warehouse availability, shipping zones, and any planned order splits. Nothing changes until your team chooses to apply the result.
Full Visibility Into Every Decision
Automatic doesn't have to mean invisible.
Warehance records routing activity directly on the order, including the rules that were evaluated and their outcomes. That gives your team a clear history of why an order ended up at a particular warehouse.
Once routing is complete, the Order Routed automation trigger can also kick off downstream workflows based on the selected warehouse.
Smarter Multi-Warehouse Fulfillment
For 3PLs and brands operating across multiple fulfillment locations, routing shouldn't be another manual step at the beginning of every order.
Order Routing puts those decisions on autopilot while keeping your team in control of the rules.
Route to the closest warehouse. Account for inventory. Split orders when necessary. Lock specific business to specific locations. And see exactly why every routing decision was made.
With Warehance, every new order can start its fulfillment journey in the right place.