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Everyone wants to go green these days; being an environmentally responsible distribution center is good for everybody. Customers appreciate that the distribution centers are making an effort to be environmentally-friendly and today's warehouse automation systems can be eco-friendly while saving owners a substantial amount of money on supplies while increasing efficiency. One of the heavy hitters for eco-friendly warehouse automation solutions is voice directed picking, which can improve a company's ROI while virtually eliminating waste.
Voice Directed Picking = A Paperless Pick
Because employees wear a small computer module and headset instead of referring to endless streams of pick documents, distribution centers can eliminate thousands of dollars of paper waste that needs to be shredded and disposed of or recycled every week. In fact, an average sized DC uses the equivalent of hundreds of trees every year. If pick and pack instructions are voiced, the endless paper trail is eliminated. Since most of those documents were simply used to fulfill customer orders and destroyed once the order was complete, their shelf life was incredibly short, leading to high turnover of waste documents. If a company's warehouse automation relies on a document-based picking routine, that company can spend an inordinate amount of time on paper that will be printed, used and quickly discarded.
Because voice directed picking is more accurate and more efficient, it leads to more satisfied customers and less time wasted on trying to correct an incorrect shipment. In most cases, if an order is shipped with the wrong items, there is additional work involved in correcting the problem. More utilities are used, more paper is generated and more employee time is used to correct more frequent mistakes when warehouse automation uses document based picking. By fulfilling orders with a voice directed picking system, companies can increase customer satisfaction while minimizing automation costs.
Improved Efficiency
When warehouse automation systems integrate voice directed picking into their order fulfillment programs, they are immediately going greener because they will be able to increase accurate order fulfillment output by as much as 30% to 40%. That means less overtime and less need for utilities and supplies. Paper-based picking means employees have to constantly look down at a document, back up at the items to find the appropriate one, then back down at the order. Repeating this same inefficient model endlessly every day slows down pickers and bogs down the system. With a sound-based system, employees are able to focus their eyes on the products and they don't have to keep track of picking documents. Employees who are moved from traditional, paper-based pick and pack to a voice system overwhelmingly prefer the new system, and happier employees are more productive employees.
Voice Directed Picking = A Paperless Pick
Because employees wear a small computer module and headset instead of referring to endless streams of pick documents, distribution centers can eliminate thousands of dollars of paper waste that needs to be shredded and disposed of or recycled every week. In fact, an average sized DC uses the equivalent of hundreds of trees every year. If pick and pack instructions are voiced, the endless paper trail is eliminated. Since most of those documents were simply used to fulfill customer orders and destroyed once the order was complete, their shelf life was incredibly short, leading to high turnover of waste documents. If a company's warehouse automation relies on a document-based picking routine, that company can spend an inordinate amount of time on paper that will be printed, used and quickly discarded.
Because voice directed picking is more accurate and more efficient, it leads to more satisfied customers and less time wasted on trying to correct an incorrect shipment. In most cases, if an order is shipped with the wrong items, there is additional work involved in correcting the problem. More utilities are used, more paper is generated and more employee time is used to correct more frequent mistakes when warehouse automation uses document based picking. By fulfilling orders with a voice directed picking system, companies can increase customer satisfaction while minimizing automation costs.
Improved Efficiency
When warehouse automation systems integrate voice directed picking into their order fulfillment programs, they are immediately going greener because they will be able to increase accurate order fulfillment output by as much as 30% to 40%. That means less overtime and less need for utilities and supplies. Paper-based picking means employees have to constantly look down at a document, back up at the items to find the appropriate one, then back down at the order. Repeating this same inefficient model endlessly every day slows down pickers and bogs down the system. With a sound-based system, employees are able to focus their eyes on the products and they don't have to keep track of picking documents. Employees who are moved from traditional, paper-based pick and pack to a voice system overwhelmingly prefer the new system, and happier employees are more productive employees.
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