Warehouse managers are most interested in the five technology you know what is it?

Increasing importance of the warehouse

E-commerce market in Asia, rapid development, the main driving force from China and India, the two super-consuming countries. Asia-Pacific population accounts for 60% of the world's total population, consumer online consumption has reached the store twice the consumption. According to MasterCard's forecast Asia-Pacific region is expected to become the world's largest e-commerce market within five years.

The driving forces behind this surge are mainly from the following: First, the rapid expansion of the middle class in Asia, disposable income increases. Second, the penetration of mobile and the Internet so that more and more consumers can enjoy the fun of online shopping. Third, there are a number of e-commerce sites in Asia, ranging from Taobao and Rakuten to small-scale shopping blogs and specialty store websites, to offer consumers a myriad of shopping options. Finally, equally important, the e-commerce industry is now supported by a mature logistics system; reliable infrastructure coupled with the extensive use of technology, so that the logistics industry to support a wide range of e-commerce needs, whether the arrival day service, or to achieve The forecast of certain commodity supply and demand.

In such an environment, warehouses need to continually self-improve, improve productivity and efficiency. Zebra Technology 2020 Warehousing Prospective studies reveal several interesting findings, including insights into current industry and trends in corporate decision-makers' eyes over the next three to five years.

Future warehouses are the embodiment of technology

The study shows that 74 percent of warehousemen managers plan to equip their employees with more and better technology to improve operational visibility and automate work tasks that once required manual execution. For example, barcodes and RFID-tagged merchandise can be used to help employees track merchandise positions, remind inventory, allow employees to replenish their goods early, and deliver goods more efficiently.

According to our research, warehouse managers are most interested in the five major technologies, including Internet of Things (IoT), bar code, tablet computers, large data and analysis, and automation. Wearing and RFID are also technologies that are extremely needed by warehouses. only about 40 percent of respondents in the 2015 survey said they plan to use RFID, and that number has doubled today.

With the advent of ergonomic enterprise-class wearable and handheld smart terminals, workers are able to scan and track items more quickly and easily and accurately. The adoption of mobile handheld smart terminals and tablets with real-time access to the warehouse management system will also grow from 40 percent in 2015 to 86 percent in 2020. At the same time, the use of pencil and paper in the next four years will be reduced by 24%, a figure several years ago, up to 95%.

These technologies bring unlimited benefits: from worker productivity to faster delivery times, creating value for the end consumer.

Wearing equipment deployed in the warehouse is usually multi-mode, that is, workers need only one device, you can achieve a number of functional access. For example, the device can & quot; hear & quot; voice prompts and respond, display text or image information on the screen, scan bar codes and capture RFID tags, take photographs to identify damage to the goods, enable workers to touch the screen on the goods you want to pick Enter the quality for the situation. 

Better ways of working

"Double 11" the occasion of the logistics will be the formation of sudden pressure. According to a prospective study of the Zebra 2020 storage, warehouse managers say that it takes about 50 hours to train their employees to the highest productivity levels, and they are eager to shorten them to 36 hours to achieve 20% productivity Promotion. Therefore, electricity providers and logistics companies have to improve the technical strength in the field of warehousing to enhance the storage capacity and production efficiency, reduce labor costs.

To achieve this, the industry will begin to pick and replenish stocks based on voice and screen displays over the next five years. 62% of respondents said they plan to deploy voice-based and screen-based sorting systems by 2020. In such a scenario, the operator is equipped with a mobile intelligent terminal or a dedicated voice terminal device, as well as a headset with a microphone. They receive voice prompts and perform tasks. This frees the operator's hands and eyes, so that they can focus on the task in hand.

Zebra Technologies has introduced the world's only Android-based integrated wear solution, including the WT6000 industrial wearable data terminal, RS6000 ring scanner and wireless HS3100 headset, for warehousing, manufacturing and retail inventory management, Site management, and pick and place storage applications, enabling hands-free and voice-directed picking operations that improve user mobility, comfort and accuracy. And this solution is powered by Zebra Mobility DNA, a new multimodal solution that increases productivity by 15 percent and reduces errors by 39 percent, compared to traditional wearable devices that only include voice mode.

On the other hand, the use of touch-screen enterprise-class mobile intelligent terminal, such as Andrews to install a familiar operating system, but also allows workers to learn more easily, especially for such as to meet the "double 11" seasonal demand While hiring temporary workers.

Zebra's new enterprise-class mobile smart terminal, the TC8000, relies on its innovative design to eliminate the need for repetitive "alignment of bar code scanning and tilting of the device to view and //confirm/i/i" action as previously done using a scanner, , More efficient scanning. Compared with the traditional keypad keyboard, the touch-screen keyboard allows users to input speed increased by 40%, error rate by 60%. Thanks to the Android operating system, the TC8000 is compatible with existing business solutions such as terminal emulation (TE), voice guidance loading (VDP), warehouse management, price auditing and warehouse receipts. All of these improvements together, one day will be able to increase productivity by 14% for each worker to save one hour per working day working hours.

By 2020, 61% of survey respondents indicated that warehouses would also expand the use of cross-shipments. Cross-transport is the unloading of goods from the storage of vehicles down, the load directly to the library of vehicles to reduce the storage between the two. Zebra Technologies' new 3600 Series 2D scanners in China offer industry-leading 1D and 2D barcode scanning performance, whether they are high-density barcodes, display in mobile phone screens, shrink-wrap or paper-based printing, Dirty barcodes. Enabling faster, more accurate performance in applications such as sorting, packaging, shipping, receiving, intermediate flow (WIP), inventory tracking, traceability, cross-forwarding and POS.

From the adoption of technology to the shift in the way work is done, warehouse productivity is expected to take a quantum leap in the next few years with Zebra's leading storage solutions.

Increased visualization of warehouse operations

In the world of business, manufacturers and distributors are affected by the "bullwhip effect." The so-called "bullwhip effect" is the supply chain at the end of a small change, it will lead to a greater degree of fluctuations in the other side, for the supply and demand forecast more difficult. Experts say the bullwhip effect is caused by erroneous or incomplete information. This means that in preparation for the "double 11", the enterprise must be real-time understanding of inventory information to prevent the lack of supply can not lead to timely delivery, or stocking too much, a large backlog of inventory, increase inventory pressure, resulting in corporate funding problems.

As a result, the use of enhanced visualization in warehouses is essential and pen and paper based data sheets will be replaced by mobile handheld smart terminals and tablets that provide real-time access and data.

Now with bar codes, data entry and delivery vouchers are only required to be done in a single sweep, either in the warehouse or on the outside. Similarly, the arrival of RFID, such as timely help in general.

RFID tags can work independently and efficiently, with Zebra technology in the Asia-Pacific region launched the first multi-operating system RFID reader - RFD8500, you can easily for Andrews and iOS devices to add high-performance RFID tags and 1D / 2D bar code scanning, Allowing RFID-tagged products to talk to readers and sensors, enabling warehouse staff to understand which goods are low in inventory, real-time visualization of goods and their locations, and even status.

Now customers expect to arrive at least the next day, in the "double 11" this day, the warehouse more urgent need to fully armed. With a leading edge in the global AIDC market, Bama Technologies' warehouse solutions automatically "sense" enterprise asset information, including items from supply chains, plant equipment, warehouse workers to store consumers The move process, which includes asset status data, including status, location, utilization, or consumer preferences, is then "analyzed" to provide actionable insight. Will help businesses improve the ability to track key assets in operations, enabling them to accurately understand their assets and their location and status to make smarter, faster business decisions and increase profitability to achieve "visionary Visibility That's Visionary. "