Foodstuffs has implemented voice-directed computing at its key warehouses in the South Island, Auckland and Wellington. The Vocollect Voice picking system,supplied and integrated by Dematic Real Time Logistics, has delivered productivity and accuracy improvements, enhanced workplace safety and helped reduce distribution costs. The Challenges Foodstuffs were searching for ways to improve the efficiency of their supply chain. Voice-directed computing’s benefits for order picking, and its ability to be integrated fairly quickly, made it a strong business case for the retailer. A key objective in implementing Voice was enhancing productivity. There was a widespread labor shortage at the time so finding and keeping people was a challenge. The increase in productivity that

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