A voice for logistics

VOICE COLLECTING Checking and pick-up operations of warehoused goods halved, operator time down 20%, number of errors reduced by between 50 and 80%, working costs down by 35%. The new integrated Vocollect Voice system.

Vocollect celebrates the results achieved in ten years of direct presence in Italy and presents the new generation Vocollect Voice system: an integrated union of hardware and software units for the vocal enabling of warehouse and distribution functions by mobile operators, that represent the state-of-the-art of the voice recognition technology.

Antonino Lanza, Vocollect EMEA Business Development Manager, spoke of the same in a recent press conference, underlining both the enhancement of the single elements as well as the integrated character of a system ”designed around the operator”.

System characteristics
voice as well as scanning functions, enabling hands free scanning and eliminating the need for supplementary scanners.
«Extremely important too - Lanza underlines - is the progress in dialoguing, that now demands a fifth of the time previously taken; in the capacity of recognition of the instructions, even in multi ethnic environments; in the connection of any type of WMS system and a lot more. The truly important returns in efficiency, accuracy and cost saving in warehouse management can be summed up in some exemplary figures: -20.8% time saved in transaction, reduction of errors
from 4 to 1, 35% reduction in operating costs».  
                               
VOCOLLECT Was set up in USA in 1987 and operates in Italy from its head office in Milan. Subject to two important changes of ownership in the last three years - it was first incorporated by Intermec and then by Honeywell Scanning & Mobility - it stands as the biggest global operation in voice acquisition data, supplier (to cite a poignant figure) of 23 of the 25 of the world’s largest retailers. It has maintained the same pace in Italy: today it works with the support of a solid network of leading commercial and technical partners with a portfolio 190 customers, comprising over 250 logistics sites and 14 thousand operators.