Sap Ag

Sap Aktiengeselleschaft

Ben-Shaul Yair

Orit Harel

Malkiel Hadari

Ziv Holzman

Li Gong

Karl Christian Roediger

Matthias Winkler

Joachim Epp

Alexander Rosenbaum

Arkadi Kagan

Samir Rayiani

Christoph Lessmoellmann

A computer-implemented method of controlling picking operations of a number of users in a warehouse, wherein goods are located at source locations, each picking operation comprising: an operation of preparation, wherein, at the source location, the good is introduced in a handling unit, HU, an operation of placing the HU on a picking equipment, the picking equipment being a tool for transferring the HU, an operation of transferring the HU to the destination location, wherein a sequence of picking instructions are presented online individually to the number of users via instruction presenting means which are associated with the respective users, each picking instruction specifying the HU to be transferred, the equipment to be used, and the first and second position, whereby execution of each of the picking operation steps is controlled by online data verification such that a subsequent picking operation instruction may be changed, and presented to the users via the instruction presenting means depending upon result of the verification.

Online controlled picking in a warehouse

The invention provides a method and apparatus, including computer program products, for interfacing communication between a warehouse management system and a portable device, the device being adapted for processing voice XML data, the method comprising: receiving, from the warehouse management system, GUI screen data comprising visual content; generating voice XML data one the basis of the visual content, the voice XML data comprising at least one portion which is representative of voice information; and transmitting the generated voice XML data to the device.

Voice XML web console

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Hadera, Israel

Ben-Shaul Yair