Voice-Enabled Material Handling Helps to Increase Efficiency

If you are running a warehouse, then you know how important it is to have an efficient system in place, like the efficiency that comes from voice-enabled material handling. Voice-enabled systems are a great way to increase the efficiency of your workers as well as increase their accuracy, often to levels not achieved prior to voice. That is because this system involves hands-free material handling. What does this mean for you and your pickers? It means that they can select the materials that are required by their work order without needing to use a handheld device or a paper order.

Instead of paper orders, the picker receives their instructions through the headset that they wear, hearing a spoken instruction of what they are supposed to handle and then responding to the commands given by the system with verbal responses. They can communicate to the system what they are picking and even ask for the system to repeat the command if necessary. This eliminates the need to take their attention away from their task in order to deal with handheld devices or order pick sheets of any kind.

Communication from the worker to the backend system is real-time, which enables automatic replenishment cycles and cuts down on out of stock merchandise and shorted orders. The voice-enabled supply chain works much better than any other system in place, reducing the number of errors and also dramatically reduces paper waste with the elimination of the paper work order system.

A voice-enabled supply chain is also one that is able to hire and train pickers much faster than with traditional systems because the voice-enabled system is much easier and faster to learn as well as much more natural to use than the other systems currently in implementation. This is a huge boon for warehouses that are looking for new and seasonal labor and have an immediate need for that aid.

Because of the decrease of mistakes made with a voice-enabled material handling system, time and money can both be saved through its implementation. Not only are you not dealing with as many picking errors or inventory inaccuracies, you are also not spending so much money on paper and labels and paper pick orders to be used in the picking process, and will not have to worry about wasting money on the training time for employees. This is great for companies that are looking for ways to cut costs, as the voice-enabled material handling systems can often pay for themselves in a year or sometimes even much less.

No warehouse is too big or too small to make good use of the voice warehousing system, as this system is perfect for increasing efficiency in all kinds of situations.