Voice

Two voice solutions for the warehouse and distribution market have emerged over the years: Vocollect Voice and Lydia Voice. This white paper helps to provide detailed areas you should be aware of when comparing Vocollect Voice and Lydia Voice.

This guide provides a framework for evaluating voice picking systems for use in warehouses and distribution centers.

Many distribution centers (DC) realize 40 percent productivity gains using voice in their picking processes, while others see improvements of 10 percent or less; this gap represents hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential labor cost savings. These variations show that the value of voice depends on factors beyond the technology itself.

While the impacts of COVID-19 varied between advanced and developing economies, business leaders across the board identified some common features that helped countries remain resilient.

Scott Medford, Apex Supply Chain Technologies’ senior VP of global sales, highlights top supply chain automation trends and shows how Apex is responding to increased demand for “low-touch” solutions in the COVID-19 era.

In this Q&A, Scott Deutsch, EPG’s president, Americas, details the current state of the warehousing environment and introduces the company’s new “Make Things Better” program.

Perpetual, exponential growth in online shopping continues to put immense pressure on distribution centers (DCs) and order fulfillment operations. Maintaining high order accuracy rates is among their biggest challenges. Consumers expect seamless and flawless online shopping experiences. Anything less than perfect — from a poor customer experience to a cumbersome returns process — reflects negatively on the business and can prove costly.

Improve productivity, accuracy and safety with fulfillment automation from Honeywell Voice.

Many Lydia Voice customers are strategically transitioning many of their solutions to cloud environments.

While the value proposition around applying voice technology for a warehouse worker has not really changed much over the last decade, the business environment, the shopping/buying experience, and technology options certainly have evolved and changed quite a bit.

Mike Levans, discusses Warehouse and DC environment key trends with James Hendrickson.

Augmented reality, smart glasses and other technologies are not enough in themselves to unlock value.

The average DC spends 6-8 weeks getting new employees trained and up to standard, representing thousands of dollars in training costs per new hire.

Three years after Amazon launched the Echo and six months after Google launched its $109 Home, Apple today unveiled a Siri-powered smart speaker called the HomePod, the speaker is a gateway to other Apple products, and a showcase for Apple’s voice AI assistant, Siri.

Scott Galloway, Founder and Chairman, L2; Clinical Professor of Marketing, NYU Stern, presents the week's biggest winners and losers in digital technology.

In this white paper we explore; how do sales of Echo devices compare with other Amazon hardware devices, how does Amazon’s device ecosystem compare with Apple’s, and have Echo devices’ commerce potential been unlocked.

The online retail giant has decided to open up what amounts to Alexa’s ears, her 7-Mic Voice Processing Technology, to third party hardware makers who want to build the digital brain into their devices.

The solution has replaced Merrill Corp.’s paper-based system, resulting in a considerable decline in picking errors.

In the online direct-to-consumer world, retailers, consumer packaged goods manufacturers and their supply chain partners are faced with tremendous challenges.

A voice project comes alive when its financial business benefits can be clearly stated.