Thanks to innovative, rugged products, integrated voice solutions, and proven solution expertise AB&R® can provide and deliver the unmatched workflow accuracy and productivity that your operations depend on.
Components of Asset Tracking & Management Solutions
Benefits
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Optimized inventory accuracy
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Increase in efficiency and productivity
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Time and cost savings
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Improvements in customer satisfaction
Receiving
The receiving process is arguably the most important process in the DC: All downstream workflows depend upon the accuracies and efficiencies achieved during receiving. Accurate data entry at this phase is critical for preventing costly cascading errors. AB&R helps to make receiving both rapid and extremely accurate with scanning that ensures first-time bar code reads, even for codes that are damaged or difficult to read. Likewise, mobile printing enables workers to correctly label products and pallets without wasting time walking to and from printer stations. These types of optimizations ensure immediate action and accurate data from the start, safeguarding your downstream workflows as well as driving quality control and vendor compliance.
Picking
Picking is by far the most labor-intensive process in the DC and also the most error prone – which makes it an ideal workflow for operational improvements. As e-commerce becomes the norm and enterprises adopt multi-channel fulfillment practices, picking operations to need the flexibility to both ship pallets to a retail store and ship individual items directly to a consumer’s doorstep. For fast-moving pallet picking, our industry-leading vehicle-mounted computers eliminate the root causes of inefficiency with large screens, powerful processors, and numerous industry-first innovations devised specifically for the DC. Likewise, for rapid case picking and/or piece picking, Our technologies seamlessly incorporate Vocollect Voice solutions, which is proven to dramatically improve productivity with unbeatable hands-free, eyes-free speed and accuracy.
Putaway & Replenishment
A warehouse pallet’s initial location influences all the processes that follow. A Warehouse Management System’s (WMS) algorithms for put-away and replenishment can only ensure location accuracy if the operator has the tools to accurately confirm the transaction by rapidly scanning a location label or speaking a check digit for the rack or floor location. That’s why AB&R offers fully customizable put-away solutions that specifically address your business needs. Customize your rules engines, general functions, and quality control and exceptions to manage your workforce.
AB&R® technology is specifically designed to drive speed and accuracy in this process with features such as aggressive scanning performance at virtually any DC distance and fully mappable device keypads. Even when a transaction requires an operator to change forklifts, Vehicle-mount computers can be hot-swapped alongside the worker, ensuring that every second count. Voice technologies accelerate performance with unmatched speech-recognition accuracy in noisy environments.
Inventory Control
Inventory-control practices throughout the distribution center are vital to the accuracy of the overall inventory, which is monitored closely by auditors. By using mobile computers and/or voice solutions to access inventory systems and perform counts, workers can conduct an inventory in real-time, eliminating the notoriously costly efforts and errors of periodic manual counts that are conducted via time-consuming paper and data-entry processes.
Packing & Shipping
Packing stations and pallet-build areas require speed and precision to complete and ship orders. Desk space must be optimized, and scanning technology must be responsive, accurate, and ergonomic so that workers see these tools as essential, and not a hindrance to the process. Thanks to many years of experience in DC deployments, our scanning solutions for the DC are proven to meet and exceed all these requirements, driving superb user acceptance and performance. Furthermore, voice solutions enable workers to operate both hands-free and eyes-free, ensuring that associated tasks such as relabeling, repacking, and taping are completed more quickly and intuitively than with any other technology option.
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AB&R®’s Solution Process
Phase I
Solution Design
During this phase our experts will:
- Perform an in-depth discovery to learn more about your specific requirements & conduct a professional technical assessment.
- Test & validate various hardware, software, and tags/labels, as applicable, to identify ones that will achieve your optimal solution.
- Develop & deliver your Solution Design Specification (SDS): proving our recommendations and detailing the budgeting costs and process we will use to implement your solution.
Phase II
Solution Implementation
During the second phase our experts will:
- Upon your agreement, acquire the selected equipment, software, supplies, and services in your SDS. We will install, configure & calibrate to ensure the solution works to your expectations.
- Confirm your acceptance of the installation, configuration, training, transition, validation, and support, validating that we have met your data-driven expectations for the performance and quality of the implemented solution.
Customer Experience
Ongoing
Continued communications will include:
- Customer feedback requests on your experience with AB&R – we want it to be the best experience.
- Quarterly Review meetings to discuss progress, success, outstanding issues that may need further assistance, and ways to further maximize your return on your investment.
AB&R®’s goal is to provide you with an efficient operation that maximizes ROI. Our solution process has been refined over the years to ensure we keep this promise for every customer.
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