Voice Directed Picking for Increased Warehouse Efficiency

When pickers work from a list or invoice, they are not working nearly as efficiently as they could with a voice picking system. Working with voice directed picking is a great way to increase that efficiency and the accuracy as well, helping workers to complete their assignments through voice commands in the system, responding verbally to the commands instead of needing to look down to work with a scanner or to enter information by hand.

Warehouses cannot operate efficiently if the pickers are making even small errors on a regular basis, and the need to look away from what they are supposed to be focused on in order to use hand held technology is distracting. This distraction can cause all kinds of mistakes, from missed digits to incorrect entries, causing a big problem with your picking system.

Voice picking, on the other hand, encourages your pickers to watch what they are doing at all times, responding to the verbal commands given to them by the voice picking system. The verbal command and response method is not only more ergonomic, it is more natural for your pickers and more convenient for them as well. This encourages them to focus more on the tasks in front of them, allowing them to work faster and with greater accuracy than if they were to have to look down and then back up again to find their place as they currently do.

Voice directed picking is also a good way to maintain the accuracy of your inventory, as it is faster and more effective than traditional picking methods, and it allows more direct communication between the operators and the warehouse management systems, the proprietary host system, and the labor management.

Voice directed picking cuts down on the number of mistakes that can be made through human error because there are fewer papers necessary. The lack of physical paperwork on the picks decreases expenses because you no longer have need of the papers and the equipment to manage, create and store it, and can also increase efficiency by helping you to avoid human error in the process.

Voice picking is great for your employees, too. Pickers can be trained much faster without complicated inventory forms to complete or a difficult system of recording to learn. The voice system tells the picker exactly what to do, and the picker responds to the commands or asks the system to repeat them. There is nothing simpler, and the ease of use makes it a highly effective system, allowing your newest pickers to get straight to work rather than to have to be painstakingly trained.

Even a brief look at a voice picking system will show that this kind of system is far superior to traditional methods of warehouse management and picking for many reasons. You will find that a voice directed picking system can be quickly implemented and can pay for itself in a year or less with effective use, making it the ideal system for any warehouse.