Warehouse Management concept: Choosing between voice picking and pick to light

Many of you have mailed me asking which is better : voice picking or pick to light . In a Warehouse, order picking can be done in a number of ways, namely paper based picking, scanning (through RF guns), pick-to-light and voice technology.

I stumbled upon a video which pretty much is biased towards voice picking but then as I have always repeated, don’t form opinions based on this video alone.

The real advantage of voice picking which people tend to overlook is that the warehouse floor staff which feels burnt-out doing the same monotonous job of order picking, now look forward to an exciting day in the warehouse because they get to work on something new and consequently job satisfaction increases. Because at the end of the day, its the people and not any technology and software that is driving the warehouse.

Some voice picking software applications are VoCollect’s Talkman®, Lucasware, Vulcan Voice™ by CTG, and Voxware .

Here’s the video about voice picking vs pick to light.