Sustaining a Successful Voice Deployment: Leading for Peak Performance
PDF: Sustaining a Successful Voice Deployment
Summary/Excerpt

A voice system is a win-win for both the company and the individual worker. Voice makes the job easier for workers to perform their duties, and it makes the organization more competitive. It also can help improve employee morale and job satisfaction, through better and more accurate incentive programs and the ability to recognize top performers.
Yesterdays tired approaches are simply inadequate for todays world where supply chain organizations are struggling mightily to squeeze as much profit and performance out of their operations as possible. These overwhelming expectations create many challenges and opportunities for DC/warehouse leaders. Their ability to inspire and enable their workforces to achieve peak performance gets tested on an hourly basis.
Part of this leadership dynamic is helping workers to understand and embrace the technological changes that come into their work environment. Experience shows that companies receive the greatest payback from their technology investments when they carefully consider the impact these systems will have on the end users front-line distribution center (DC) and warehouse employees and plan for potential issues before a technology initiative goes live. These best practices are ideal to employ when implementing a voice system in a DC/warehouse operation.
As part of Vocollects ongoing white paper series on best practices for achieving successful voice deployments, this paper summarizes the insights and best practices gained from thousands of implementations worldwide over the past 20 years. Youll learn ways to most effectively lead your teams through a voice deployment to more quickly realize the many benefits that voice applications provide for your business.
