Night shift DC manager Rob Johnson has one word to describe the Jennifer voice-directed replenishment application at Ace Endico: “phenomenal.” What makes his choice of words interesting is that voice-directed replenishment doesn’t typically deliver the…
How to Increase Warehouse Management Visibility Into Operations
Ask somebody with eye-glasses to play darts without their spectacles and they are likely to miss the mark. The same thing can be said for supervisors in a warehouse managing without real-time information. It may…
How To Get A 20% Productivity Gain While Improving Traceability
Product traceability is an issue in many industries, raising the specter of increased costs to capture item-level data in the DC. One Lucas foodservice customer has improved productivity 20% while also improving data capture and traceability. On…
Improving Management Productivity, And Reducing Costs At Imperial Distributors
Most DCs that install Lucas optimization software expect to reduce labor costs through improvements in picking productivity. But many of those same companies also see significant improvements in management productivity through the use of our…
How DC Process Improvements Drive Downstream Efficiency at Sentara Health
I’m always curious to hear about the unexpected benefits DCs discover after installing a voice system, especially when improvements flow downstream and outside of the DC. During a panel discussion at Modex, Robert Saunders of…
