Warehouse Optimization Suite
The Lucas Warehouse Optimization Suite helps build a dynamic warehouse operation, continuously adapting to changing markets and customer demands, improving throughput, increasing productivity, and service by orchestrating and optimizing resources – people, robots, inventory – across IT and automation systems.
Flexible, adaptable and scalable for IT and Operations
Through voice, AI-based optimization, adaptive workflows, and a micro-services architecture, Lucas warehouse optimization software empowers companies to meet new demands by setting new standards for employee productivity and accuracy, improving management effectiveness, and evolving with your business.
+The easy-to-use Lucas mobile application runs on the mobile device of your choice. The user interface combines voice direction (Jennifer™ voice), speech recognition, scanning, display and RFID to help automate any manual, hands-on process in the warehouse.
+Jennifer™ utilizes AI and advanced algorithms to enable managers to make efficient slotting moves in advance of changing conditions.
+Reduce training and onboarding with easy to use voice-directed mobile applications incorporating industry leading dual recognition speech technology.
+The Lucas management console provides managers real-time visibility and control of operations to help increase throughput and manage peaks. Beyond monitoring operations, managers can manage workers and work in process, and update rules, settings and configurations.
+The Lucas system leverages rich and granular data and Jennifer™ applies advanced machine learning algorithms to provide managers with advanced workforce planning and performance management capabilities.
+Jennifer™ provides AI-based intelligent batching and pick path optimization that reduces travel, increases pick density, and dramatically increases productivity. In addition, Jennifer™ enables advanced task interleaving and continuous order streaming.
+Deliver the right products to your customers with efficient pick and put validations, optimized QC/audit criteria and Jennifer’s on demand assistance.
+Lucas enables you to seamlessly integrate next-generation technology with enterprise software, robotics and warehouse automation, reducing the costs and risks of change.
+Voice-directed applications allow operators to be eyes and hands free, making them more aware of surroundings. Operations that add voice solutions often see a decrease in accidents.
+While Jennifer™ orchestrates and optimizes within picking zones, a DC can add robots for conveyance between pick zones or other staging locations. This can further reduce worker travel to and from fixed drop off or induction points. Likewise, Jennifer™ can be used to optimize the travel of robots for full pallet moves, both in inbound and outbound operations.
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Optimize the Most Important Processes in Your Warehouse
The Warehouse Optimization Suite is based on thousands of person-years of operations experience in hundreds of DCs. The suite features Jennifer™, the brain, voice, and orchestration engine that drives performance improvement gains. Jennifer™ incorporates a variety of AI, machine learning, and other decision making technologies that are used to optimize and orchestrate DC operations.
What Makes the Lucas Warehouse Optimization Suite Different?
For the last 25+ years, hundreds of warehouses worldwide have been transformed using Lucas warehouse optimization solutions. Every solution incorporates smart software, flexible technologies, and a consultative implementation approach led by warehouse optimization experts.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Lucas Warehouse Optimization Suite?
The Lucas Warehouse Optimization Suite is warehouse software powered by Jennifer™ Intelligence (an AI-based optimization and orchestration engine) that helps distribution centers improve warehouse processes and increase productivity across fulfillment operations.
How does Jennifer™ Intelligence help increase productivity?
Jennifer™ uses order, inventory, and location data and applies real-time AI-based algorithms to optimize work assignments and tasks. By continuously adapting workflows as conditions change, it reduces wasted effort and helps increase productivity while supporting accuracy and service levels.
Does Lucas support warehouse automation (robots, AMRs, and other systems)?
Yes. Jennifer™ organizes and orchestrates work across people, robots, and other warehouse automation systems, then communicates through standard user and system interfaces to help coordinate automated and manual execution.
How does Lucas reduce travel time during key warehouse processes like picking and putaway?
The suite includes AI-based travel optimization that reduces unnecessary walking and movement within core warehouse processes such as picking and putaway. Less travel time helps teams increase productivity and maintain consistent performance as volume and labor conditions change.
What worker interfaces are included, and how do they improve warehouse processes?
Lucas provides multi-modal mobile applications that combine voice direction (Jennifer™ voice), speech recognition, scanning, display, and RFID. These interfaces streamline day-to-day warehouse processes, reduce training and onboarding time, and support hands- and eyes-free workflows that can increase productivity and improve safety.
Get Started With These Helpful Resources
Three Steps to Creating a More Productive DC
This guide takes you through three steps that have helped hundreds of distribution centers worldwide increase productivity and throughput in their picking processes.
Warehouse Travel Reduction Guide
This guide looks in depth at how different approaches to implementing voice determine the magnitude of productivity gains any facility may achieve. Use the guidelines in this paper to estimate the potential results in your DC.
AI-based travel optimization
This 10-minute demo dives into the various components of our AI-based optimization tool – dynamic prioritization, path optimization, and intelligent batching. Fill out the form and we will send you the demo.
