Latest generation voice picking solutions, such as Numina Group’s Victory Voice™ Suite, are voice independent, easy to learn, and require zero operator training. New employees and seasonal staff can be productive in 15 minutes or less.

Victory Voice is the latest advancement in multimodal order picking, yielding 99.9% picking accuracy and reducing pick and pack labor requirements by 50% or more in existing operations. Several clients have increased picking rates to 230-300 lines per hour in high-velocity, properly SKU-slotted pick zones.

The best voice-picking solutions are capable of handling diverse picking requirements. For example, Victory Voice is highly flexible and supports multiple picking operations, including:

• Pick to conveyor
• Discrete orders
• Batch cart picking
• Mixed case pallet
• Full pallet pick
• Directing multi-zone consolidation for LTL and truck shipments

To achieve the greatest ROI, choose a voice-picking solution that includes order fulfillment optimization components to further enhance efficiency and accuracy.

For example, Victory Voice includes an optimized order release module that supports continuous and batch order release planning, models the most efficient employee pick paths, synchronizes workers’ tasks with mobile warehouse robots, and includes built-in, advanced cartonization software to ensure least-cost shipping.

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• The engineering plan and subsequent optimization plan are data-driven. At a minimum, it should be based on a year or more of past order data, including detailed data on order profiles, shipment sizes, and the current workflow of your picking, packing, and shipping processes.  

Order and SKU movement data analysis is reviewed to understand and recommend improvements to product storage and to ensure that:

• Items are stored in the optimal locations to streamline picking
• Correct storage technology is used, and
• Optimum travel paths are achieved for the most efficient order flow across the operation

These solutions combine two families of robots, the high-reach box and tote carrying and moving robots that can reach heights of 8 meters/26 feet for automatically storing and picking totes and cases.

These robots include a depth camera and other sensors and use QR code-based navigation to move throughout the order picking and storage aisles.

The G2P robots can autonomously pick and transfer up to eight totes to floor pick-up locations to move to the picking station. In addition, the bots handle large capacity tote weights up to 85 lbs in dense double deep racking.

The secret to the boost in performance is using the second family of small and nimble tote-carrying mobile robots teamed with the high-reach picking and storage bots.

The small shuttle bots travel in separate pick-up and delivery aisles from the high-reach picking and storage bots at the bottom level, inside the four tote or box storage racking.

When the high reach bot completes the picking of a group of totes and boxes, it moves and inserts the tote into a floor-level pick-up position. This action triggers a message to dispatch the small shuttle bots to travel to the picking location, pick up, and move the tote to the required picking station.

The same process moves totes from the receiving replenishment area to the required storage aisles.