Meeting the challenges in today’s warehouse
Maintaining a high level of efficiency in warehouse operations is critical to business health — from healthcare distributors tackling new
regulatory requirements, grocery chains confronting increased competition and tighter margins, high volume distribution centers facing the
rising cost of doing business, and more. Regardless of the types of materials and products that move through your warehouse, you face
constant pressure to streamline operations, increase productivity, reduce labor costs, and improve order accuracy.
Critical to any distribution operation, picking is one of the most labor-
intensive warehouse functions. And pick accuracy can make or break
your customer relationships.
A paper-based picking system is hampered with inefficiencies. Printing
and distributing pick tickets takes time — time that would be better
served picking additional orders. Workers can spend too much time
walking through aisles looking for the correct item, and juggling paper
forms while handling items as they are picked. A paper-based process is
slow and especially prone to errors — as paperwork is completed by
hand and then manually entered into the system. As a result, companies
can struggle with incomplete pick lists, mis-picks, and data entry errors.
Companies who’ve deployed an electronic process and armed their
warehouse employees with handheld scanners/computers can still achieve
dramatic productivity gains. In transaction-intensive environments such
as picking, handheld devices can potentially slow the pace of work
down. The workflow for employees who constantly use their hands to
pick items or handle packages can be disrupted by the need to continually
set down and pick up devices — the time required to manage devices
could be better spent picking more orders.
Powerful hands-free flexibility and
convenience
The WT4000 Series Wearable System empowers warehouse workers to
achieve new levels of productivity and efficiency through hands-free voice
and text-based picking. The system offers maximum application flexibility,
with headset support for voice picking, a keyboard for text entry, as well
as mix and match connectors on either side of the terminal for right- or
left-handed scanning. The ability to utilize this single system for voice-
directed picking, text-based picking or a combination of voice and text
enables you to meet a wide variety of needs in your warehouse, including
the ability to override errors and handle exceptions on the fly, while
providing the functionality to automate and dramatically reduce errors in
picking operations.
Maximize picking productivity with the
hands-free WT4000 Series Wearable System
APPLICATION BRIEF
Key benefits
• Increases warehouse worker productivity with
unparalleled freedom of movement and fewer
workflow disruptions
• Improves picking accuracy by providing real-time
feedback and eliminating manual data entry errors
• Improves worker safety with ergonomic design and
hands/eye-free operation
• Enables real-time exception/error handling
• Provides maximum application flexibility: voice-
only, text-only and combination voice and text
