Datria Leapfrogs Voice Market: Breakthrough In Speech-Based Warehousing
In a stunning development, Datria changes the paradigm for voice-based warehousing. "Company choices are no longer limited to purpose-specific solutions requiring expensive hand-held computers," said James Greenwell, Datria president and CEO. "Now for the first time ever existing corporate investments can be leveraged, such as VoIP, inexpensive telephones and the same network speech recognition technologies that are being used elsewhere in the corporation."
With the deployment of its new Voice Pick n Pack solution to a multi-billion dollar global beverage company, Datria has provisioned the first solution using affordable IP-phones - like those provided by Cisco - instead of computers for hands-free voice picking. This revolutionary solution drives increased accuracy and productivity in the warehouse.
"This has never been done before," continued Greenwell. "Even more compelling is that the investment in voice-based warehousing establishes an enterprise-wide resource – enabling corporate efficiencies beyond the distribution center. Companies will speech-enable a broad range of business processes inside and outside the four walls, including real-time field force connectivity, enterprise asset management, crisis management and sales force automation."
Companies also expect their enterprise mobility solutions to mesh with their strategic investment in SOA architectures. For this customer, critical value was placed on Datria's Voice Pick ‘n Pack existing integration with SAP's enterprise SOA as a certified Powered by SAP NetWeaver solution.
"The maturation of technology standards and adoption of VoIP has created a suitable environment where speech can be easily integrated and used to optimize certain warehouse processes," said Daniel Hong, lead analyst at Datamonitor. Datamonitor is the world's leading provider of online data, analytic and forecasting platforms for key vertical sectors." Companies can now use network speech, VoIP and off-the-shelf products like IP-phones and headsets in their warehouses to reduce operational costs. This approach is new, and Datria has capitalized on this opportunity by leveraging its assets and expertise in speech-enabled enterprise mobility to bring forth an innovative solution for the warehouse market."
Datria's initial deployment of its Voice Pick n Pack solution is at a leading bottler – a global firm with hundreds of warehouses and thousands of pickers in North America and Western Europe. "Using Datria's new configurable package, this customer was able to leverage existing investments, reducing their capital investment by more than 30%," said Greenwell. "In addition, they were able to establish an enterprise-wide speech resource capable of delivering real-time connectivity across all of its mobile workers merchandisers, plant maintenance workers and field service technicians."
Voice Pick n Pack is immediately available as part of Datria's suite of Speech-based Warehousing solutions, a set of configurable packages that address warehouse process automation needs such as item selection, receiving, put-away, let-down/replenishment, transfers, load building, cycle counting and flow-through. This new suite of solutions augment Datria's market-leading Ticket Management series, addressing speech-enabled field service management, sales force automation, enterprise asset management, parts management, outage management, crisis management and human capital management.
About Datria
Datria Systems, Inc., designs, sells, and services speech-enabled configurable mobility solutions focused on improving the productivity of mobile workforces while reducing the cost to support them. Datria's products enable customers to exchange real-time information between a central office and field representatives, using only human voices and a phone or two-way radio connection. Datria serves the manufacturing, logistics, communications, utilities, health care and public service industries. Founded in 1997 and a member of the VoiceXML Forum, Datria is based in Englewood, Colorado. For more information, please visit www.datria.com or call 800-583-9509.
SOURCE: Datria Systems, Inc.