OREANDA-NEWS. ALIDI plans to implement Pick-by-Voice technology of order picking on its biggest warehouses in Moscow and Nizhniy Novgorod. Pick by Voice can be easily connected to existing warehouse management or enterprise resource planning systems via common data base or file interfaces, allowing the integration of the speech-based application simply as a new module to existing logistics systems.

Pick by Voice offers the decisive advantage of significantly reducing the worksteps required for the picking process. The picker receives his orders via headset and confirms the execution by answering to the system via microphone. A gain of time is achieved here by making the handling of paper lists or operating mobile barcode readers redundant. The operative can completely concentrate on the actual manual picking process, thus also achieving a better picking accuracy.

At the first stage the project is implemented in test mode in Chekhov – 8 Warehouse in Moscow. After the trial period the system will be introduced in other warehouses. The equipment is supplied by Vocollect Company, the number one developer and manufacturer of voice solutions for mobile workers worldwide.

"The implementation of Pick by Voice quickly achieves significant increases in quality and productivity, leading to an amortisation of investment, and decreasing the time for personnel education – comments Evguenyi Kozhevnikov, Head of Supply Chain Automation Department and leader of this project. – We plan to implement pick by voice system in those sectors where it gives more efficiency and results”.