How SAP Helps Realize Voice-enabled Warehouse Operations?

Voice technology has been around for a while and is here to stay. Voice-enabled warehouse operations growing adoption among warehouse distribution centers has led to increased accuracy, higher productivity and reduced training time. Complex facilities such as inventory control are vital in retail warehouses, with several picks to be made every hour.

Voice-enabled warehouse operations

Benefits

The voice selection system creates a hands-free, heads-up workflow. Unlike traditional warehouse order picking where you have to stop to read, scan or punch keys, a voice picking system allows users to effectively listen and speak. Some of its benefits include, Productivity improvement. Decrease in accidents as operators rely on eyes and hands-free technology and hence are more aware of the surroundings.

How voice-enabled warehouse operation help during COVID-19 pandemic

Storage and logistics have been hit hard in recent months. While the warehouse has been under tremendous pressure to deliver quickly due to rising customer expectations, COVID-19 has caused further disruption.

Effective onboarding

New workers can pick up their barcode scanner or mobile device and start working with minimal onboarding time. The latest device upgrades offer improved design and user-friendly interfaces. New workers can start quickly without the need for lengthy training.

Increased productivity

Voice features help workers keep up with high order volumes. It helps them cope with the increased pressure to meet the intense demands, reduce training time and use handheld devices that suit them.

Higher accuracy

With hands-free wearables and voice dialing, workers don’t have to stop frequently to check their devices. It will reduce errors and allow pickers to complete more orders in the same time frame with greater speed and accuracy.

Improved security

Voice selection can eliminate many physical touch points that can lead to virus exposure. Minimizing surface contact is one of the best ways to protect warehouse workers.

How does SAP help voice-picking?

SAP has become an essential tool for many businesses. SAP voice selection provides superior ergonomics, eliminating distractions and allowing users to focus on the task at hand. Voice technology is specially designed to provide voice recognition in noisy environments. The noise canceling capability helps reduce background noise in the warehouse such as truck horns, falling pallets and the mechanism of the conveyor system.

Technology Components & Application Integration

Voice uses a similar technology infrastructure to RF scanning. It is a distributed technology that uses the 802.1 1x wireless LAN standard to support communication between client mobile computers and backend servers. Client software running on these devices manages data presentation and input services, Servers provide enterprise application and database functionality as well as voice client management.

Client Components

Client speech recognition components are either speaker-dependent or speaker-independent. Dependence on a speaker requires users to train the system to recognize the specific nuances of their voices. This process involves the system prompting the user to repeat numbers and expressions

Conclusion

As the economy struggles to overcome uncertainty, it is imperative to use secure and cost-effective solutions and leverage advanced technologies such as voice-enabled applications.