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The 200-Order Batch Ceiling: Why Legacy OMS Platforms Freeze at Dispatch and How We Built Streaming Bulk Manifest
Warehouse Operations & Dispatch Architecture

The 200-Order Batch Ceiling: Why Legacy OMS Platforms Freeze at Dispatch and How We Built Streaming Bulk Manifest

Engineering teardown: why Unicommerce Uniware freezes at 200 orders per manifest batch (synchronous PDF rendering in a single HTTP request) and how PointNXT built streaming bulk dispatch using Bull queues and SSE, manifesting 5,000+ orders per cycle without a 504 gateway timeout.