Parallel wave allocation
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 
Feb 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
Business value
This feature enables organizations to improve the performance of their outbound order processing.
Feature details
This feature improves wave processing performance by using parallel processing to allocate waves. It works by running the allocateWave method in parallel and by processing waves in batch.
Parallel allocation is done per item and per dimension above the location. This means, for example, that if an item is configured using the Color dimension (which is above location) then variants for red, blue, and yellow could each be processed in parallel.
Important: This feature will become mandatory as of version 10.0.17. On updating to that version, the feature will be turned on automatically, all warehouses will be configured with the allocateWave method set to run in parallel, and all waves will be set to process in batch. Thereafter, you won't be able to turn off the feature, but you can still manually revert the settings if you require the previous functionality.
See also
Wave allocation (docs)