Voice Picking in Accellos One Warehouse: Workflow

Our development team worked with the experts at Vocollect and Psion-Teklogix to make sure that the voice picking process does not disrupt your current workflow. If you're working with Accellos One Warehouse today, you can continue to employ the same warehouse processes during order fulfillment.

This is the third of a series of articles that will look at voice picking using Accellos One Warehouse. The series also includes a voice picking overview and a discussion of voice picking ROI.

The Accellos One Warehouse Voice Picking Interface integrates Accellos One Warehouse with Vocollect's voice picking technology in batch mode. The interface currently integrates the Vocollect Voice Link 3.1 Solution.

Accellos One Warehouse provides an interface to Vocollect. The integration to Vocollect takes care of the voice-picking process in the warehouse. When voice picking is completed, the information is imported back into Accellos One Warehouse, completing the sales order process.

The typical flow in your warehouse looks like this:

• Sales orders are downloaded from your ERP or accounting system to Accellos One Warehouse and then allocated.
  
• During waving, you choose the option to pick with voice or with another picking method, such as radio frequency. 
  
• Sales orders marked for voice picking do not generate labels in Accellos One Warehouse but are instead transmitted to Vocollect.
  
• The information is passed from Accellos One Warehouse to Vocollect. In that way, sales orders that are exported to Vocollect for voice picking are prevented from further processing by Accellos One Warehouse until Vocollect confirms they were picked.
  
• Vocollect alone oversees picking orders in the warehouse.
  
• Information is returned from Vocollect to Accellos One Warehouse for further processing. The process continues in Accellos One Warehouse just as is does today, so there is no disruption to your current workflow.
  
• Sales orders are uploaded from Accellos One Warehouse to your ERP or accounting system as usual through the standard integration.
  

Accellos Announces Accellos One Optimize Version 1.2

Accellos is pleased to announce the availability of Accellos One Optimize Version 1.2, the latest release of our load and route optimization solution designed for private and public fleets.

Optimize was designed to take orders from an existing order management, ERP, warehouse or transportation management system, apply specific business rules and constraints and then develop loads and routes that save a business anywhere from 10-20% on their shipping costs. It delivers rapid return on investment by reducing miles driven, meeting agreed-upon delivery time windows and service levels and maximizing utilization of the overall fleet assets.

The Version 1.2 release increases the overall functionality by adding new features, like:

• Support for backhauls
  
• Integrated Traffic Management
  
• Integration with Microsoft Bing Maps for:
  
  • Rich map visualization
    
  • Geocoding
    
  • Non-commercial routing
    
• Location browsing
  

Additionally, the V1.2 release has added integration with Accellos One Warehouse and with the upcoming Accellos One Workspace.

"The Optimize product is proving itself to deliver a lot of value to our customers in a compressed timeframe," said Ross Elliott, Accellos' CTO. "The features we added in Version 1.2 offer additional value to our existing customers as well as making the product accessible to a broader audience."

 

For more information call 909-980-8705