RedPrairie and Lucas Systems Team Up for Voice Directed Warehouse Management

Lucas Systems, a provider of voice-directed warehouse applications for open, mobile computers, has entered into a reseller agreement with RedPrairie, a provider of warehouse management systems. Under the agreement, RedPrairie will resell Jennifer VoicePlus applications.

Jennifer is already installed with a RedPrairie WMS at OM HealthCare Logistics, an Owens & Minor business unit and a healthcare third-party logistics (3PL) provider.

“Voice picking is an increasingly important tool for retailers, wholesale distributors, and a range of other companies with large-scale warehouse and distribution operations,” says Gary Morgan, vice president of technology and innovation at RedPrairie. “With Jennifer VoicePlus, RedPrairie WMS customers will get the full productivity and accuracy advantages of next-generation voice recognition technology running on industry-standard hardware devices. In addition to providing maximum operations benefit when adding voice to a WMS, we are also able to drive a lower total cost of ownership by using the same mobile hardware for voice-directed and non-voice RF tasks.”

Jennifer VoicePlus is the first voice application to use voice and scanning interchangeably in a single application, to interleave voice-picking with other tasks, and to run on standard mobile computing devices that can be used in non-voice processes. Under this reseller agreement, Lucas Systems and RedPrairie have designed a standard interface that allows Jennifer to interact directly with the RedPrairie WMS, allowing companies to rapidly deploy voice-optimized WMS applications. Jennifer, by Lucas, is a hardware-independent voice solution with tens of thousands of users at hundreds of warehouses.

“We are pleased to be teaming up with RedPrairie, which already offers the most comprehensive warehouse management system on the market,” says Chris Sweeney, senior vice president at Lucas Systems. “Jennifer VoicePlus adds powerful new voice-plus capabilities for users on the warehouse floor, while giving managers the flexibility to optimize voice-picking and other workflows through RedPrairie. The combination of RedPrairie WMS and Jennifer VoicePlus sets a new standard for voice-directed warehouse functionality.”