Jennifer Voice Directed Warehouse Applications Named to 9th Annual List of 100 Great Supply Chain Partners

Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/08/2011 -- Lucas Systems, Inc., http://www.lucasware.com, the leading provider of voice-directed warehouse applications for open, mobile computers, has been selected by Supply Chain Brain as a 2011 Great Supply Chain Partner. Lucas Systems is now the largest independent provider of voice applications in North America, with tens of thousands of associates using Jennifer VoicePlus software for voice picking and other voice directed warehouse applications.

"SupplyChainBrain's 9th annual list of 100 Great Supply Chain Partners is the result of a six-month on-line poll in which supply chain professionals were asked to nominate vendors and service providers whose solutions have made a significant impact on their company's efficiency, customer service and overall supply chain performance," says Brad Berger, Publisher of Supply Chain Brain. "Nominations were received for hundreds of trading partners in every aspect of supply chain management. Our compliments to Lucas Systems on making the final cut of those 100 companies who received the most qualified nominations!"

"We are honored that so many Lucas Systems customers nominated us as a great supply chain partner," says Chris Sweeney, Senior Vice President of Lucas Systems. "This award speaks directly to our success in delivering superior customer results and user satisfaction."

About SupplyChainBrain
SupplyChainBrain, the world's most comprehensive supply chain management information resource, is accessed year round through a wide range of ever evolving multi-media formats by hundreds of thousands of senior level industry executives. In addition to addressing the fundamental principles of supply-chain management, SupplyChainBrain identifies emerging trends, technologies and best practices, forward thinking ideas and cutting-edge solutions-and continues to write and report about these as they evolve and mature.

About Lucas Systems, Inc.
Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed distribution center solutions on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company in the business. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp, Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. Jennifer, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Barcoding and Lucas Systems in Strategic Partnership for Warehouse Voice Picking Solutions

Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/07/2011 -- Jennifer VoicePlus supports voice picking and other voice directed warehouse tasks to improve associate productivity and accuracy while reducing distribution center costs. Jennifer is optimized for standard mobile computers, allowing customers to run Jennifer applications on the same terminals they already use for non-voice radio frequency (RF) applications.

This provides additional cost savings and flexibility compared to traditional voice-only solutions.

Lucas Systems, Inc., http://www.lucasware.com, the largest independent provider of voice-directed warehouse applications, today announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Barcoding, Inc., a leader in enterprise-wide mobility solutions. Under the partnership, Barcoding and Lucas will jointly market and sell Jennifer VoicePlus solutions – the first voice directed warehouse application built to run on open, industry standard mobile computers rather than single-purpose, voice-only hardware.

"Jennifer VoicePlus is the perfect extension to our mobility offerings for warehouse operations," said Shane Snyder, Vice President of Sales, Barcoding, Inc. "Through this partnership, new and existing Barcoding customers will receive the full advantage of Jennifer's next-generation voice-plus capabilities that drive higher ROI and lower total cost of ownership than older voice-only systems."

"Together, Barcoding and Lucas deliver voice directed warehouse solutions that provide greater operational improvements than any other option on the market," said Chris Sweeney, Senior Vice President of Lucas Systems. "Jennifer provides comprehensive voice-plus capabilities that allow users to use voice or scan barcodes interchangeably, ensuring they can work accurately and productively. For warehouse managers, Jennifer includes a complete suite of process reporting, productivity and other management tools – the Engage Management Services Console – that complement and extend existing warehouse management, labor management and other back-end systems."

About Barcoding, Inc.
Barcoding, Inc. is a national systems integrator, specializing in the development, deployment, and management of supply chain and mobility systems based on automated data capture (AIDC) and wireless technology. More than 2,500 organizations depend on Barcoding, Inc. as their trusted advisor for barcoding and radio frequency identification (RFID) applications automating operations in: field service, food and beverage, healthcare, manufacturing and distribution, retail, transportation and logistics, and wholesale inventory. For more information, visit http://www.barcoding.com.

About Lucas Systems, Inc.
Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed warehouse applications on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp., Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. Jennifer™ VoicePlus, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with real-time reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Lucas Systems and Barcoding Inc Enter Alliance According to Supply and Demand Chain Executive

Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/06/2011 -- Supply and Demand Chain Executive Magazine reported that Lucas Systems, Inc., www.lucasware.com, the largest independent provider of voice-directed warehouse applications, entered into a strategic alliance with Barcoding, Inc., a leader in enterprise-wide mobility solutions. Under the partnership, Barcoding and Lucas will jointly market and sell Jennifer VoicePlus solutions – the first voice directed warehouse application built to run on open, industry standard mobile computers rather than single-purpose, voice-only hardware.

"Jennifer VoicePlus is the perfect extension to our mobility offerings for warehouse operations," said Shane Snyder, Vice President of Sales, Barcoding, Inc. "Through this partnership, new and existing Barcoding customers will receive the full advantage of Jennifer's next-generation voice-plus capabilities that drive higher ROI and lower total cost of ownership than older voice-only systems."

Jennifer VoicePlus supports voice picking and other voice directed warehouse tasks to improve associate productivity and accuracy while reducing distribution center costs. Jennifer is optimized for standard mobile computers, allowing customers to run Jennifer applications on the same terminals they already use for non-voice radio frequency (RF) applications.

This provides additional cost savings and flexibility compared to traditional voice-only solutions.

"Together, Barcoding and Lucas deliver voice directed warehouse solutions that provide greater operational improvements than any other option on the market," said Chris Sweeney, Senior Vice President of Lucas Systems. "Jennifer provides comprehensive voice-plus capabilities that allow users to use voice or scan barcodes interchangeably, ensuring they can work accurately and productively. For warehouse managers, Jennifer includes a complete suite of process reporting, productivity and other management tools – the Engage Management Services Console – that complement and extend existing warehouse management, labor management and other back-end systems."

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/06/2011 -- Process requirements for catalog and online fulfillment centers are quite distinguishable from brick-and-mortar retailers. Even catalog companies such as Oriental Trading Co., Cornerstone Brands, and Augusta Sportswear face unique challenges, and each of them has turned to voice-picking technology to address logistical challenges.

The very nature of products sold, defines the requirement of voice systems needed to achieve fulfillment objectives. Oriental Trading sells party supplies, toys, and novelties; Augusta sells apparel; and Cornerstone sells housewares, including indoor and patio furniture.

Lucas Systems, Inc., (http://www.lucasware.com), the largest provider of voice-directed warehouse applications, was recently profiled by Manufacturing Journalist TR Cutler, for Quality Digest; the feature article is titled, Voice-Picking Technology Helps Improve Quality in Order Fulfillment. Cutler details how voice-picking combined with RFID, bar-code, and other technologies helps reduce errors and improve productivity.

"Standard order profiles, warehouse systems, and fulfillment processes vary from company to company," says Jeff Slevin, chief operating officer of Lucas Systems, provider of voice-directed logistics applications for warehouses and fulfillment centers. "At Cornerstone, order fillers use turret trucks to pick large items from high-bay racks, while staff at Augusta walk among shelves in pick modules."

Voice picking is a method of picking customer orders in warehouses and distribution centers using software applications that combine voice direction with speech recognition. The voice-picking applications use information from warehouse management systems (WMS) to create two-way conversations with warehouse workers, instructing them what to do and verifying and responding to the information associates speak back. Voice-picking software has been in use since the late 1990s as a means to improve productivity, accuracy, and safety in grocery, food and beverage, retail, consumer product goods, and other distribution operations.

In voice picking, a warehouse worker wears a headset connected to a small wearable computer, which tells the worker where to go and what to do using verbal prompts. Workers confirm their tasks by speaking pre-defined commands and reading confirmation codes printed on locations or products throughout the warehouse. The speech recognition software running on the wearable computer understands the workers' responses. The voice-picking software communicates with WMS or inventory systems via a wireless network.

About Lucas Systems, Inc.
More than 50 distribution centers in North America Use Jennifer VoicePlus for Pick-and-Pass Style Order Fulfillment, Including Advanced Multi-Order Picking. Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed warehouse applications on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp., Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. Jennifer VoicePlus, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with real-time reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Lucas Systems Named to 9th Annual List of 100 Great Supply Chain Partners

Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/02/2011 -- SupplyChainBrain, the world's most comprehensive supply chain management information resource, is accessed year round through a wide range of ever evolving multi-media formats by hundreds of thousands of senior level industry executives. In addition to addressing the fundamental principles of supply-chain management, SupplyChainBrain identifies emerging trends, technologies and best practices, forward thinking ideas and cutting-edge solutions-and continues to write and report about these as they evolve and mature.

Lucas Systems, Inc., http://www.lucasware.com, the leading provider of voice-directed warehouse applications for open, mobile computers, has been selected by Supply Chain Brain as a 2011 Great Supply Chain Partner. Lucas Systems is now the largest independent provider of voice applications in North America, with tens of thousands of associates using Jennifer VoicePlus software for voice picking and other voice directed warehouse applications.

"SupplyChainBrain's 9th annual list of 100 Great Supply Chain Partners is the result of a six-month on-line poll in which supply chain professionals were asked to nominate vendors and service providers whose solutions have made a significant impact on their company's efficiency, customer service and overall supply chain performance," says Brad Berger, Publisher of Supply Chain Brain. "Nominations were received for hundreds of trading partners in every aspect of supply chain management. Our compliments to Lucas Systems on making the final cut of those 100 companies who received the most qualified nominations!"

"We are honored that so many Lucas Systems customers nominated us as a great supply chain partner," says Chris Sweeney, Senior Vice President of Lucas Systems. "This award speaks directly to our success in delivering superior customer results and user satisfaction."

About Lucas Systems, Inc.
Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed distribution center solutions on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company in the business. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp, Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. Jennifer, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/01/2011 -- Lucas Systems, Inc., http://www.lucasware.com, the largest independent provider of voice-directed warehouse applications, today announced the second-generation of Mobile Engage, a mobile application designed to give warehouse managers real-time process updates via a Smartphone or industrial PDA.

"Mobile Engage allows supervisors and managers to get out on the warehouse floor without losing touch with what's happening elsewhere in the operation," says Chris Sweeney, Senior Vice President of Lucas Systems. "For the past decade we have been adding more powerful reporting and management tools to Jennifer, helping managers to better plan and manage their operations through the Web-based Engage MSC. Mobile Engage is a natural extension of this, pushing real-time business intelligence to mobile devices. This seemingly small addition to an existing voice directed warehouse system can drive big improvements in management efficiency and effectiveness."

Mobile Engage 2.0 extends the Web-based intelligence, reporting and management alerts available in the Jennifer VoicePlus System to managers using a Smartphone or PDA. Mobile Engage is available as an add-on to existing Jennifer VoicePlus voice picking systems.

Mobile Engage, first introduced in 2009, extends the Web-based reporting, management and configuration tools of Jennifer's Engage Management Service Console (MSC) to a mobile device using a standard mobile Web browser, including iPhone and Android devices. With Mobile Engage, warehouse managers can view work status across a DC, monitor associate productivity, view and manage exceptions (shorts, etc.), and access other management information and alerts available in the standard Web-based Engage MSC.

About Lucas Systems, Inc.
Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed warehouse applications on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp., Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. Jennifer VoicePlus, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with real-time reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/31/2011 -- Lucas Systems, Inc., (http://www.lucasware.com), the largest provider of voice-directed warehouse applications, is celebrating the tenth anniversary of the first Jennifer bucket-brigade voice picking system at Republic National Distributing Company's Deerfield Beach, Florida distribution center. Today more than 50 DCs are using Jennifer voice-directed bucket brigades, in wine and spirits, publishing, convenience stores and retail. The latest version of Jennifer VoicePlus supports advanced multi-order bucket-brigade picking which further enhances flexibility and productivity, especially in high-density retail operations.

"We recognized long ago that voice was an ideal technology fit for our pick-and-pass bottle picking process, but voice was unproven in this type of operation," said Stefan Kirshenbaum, Corporate Vice President of Operations Systems and Services at Republic National Distributing Company. "Since those early days we have worked closely with Lucas to optimize our customer order picking process for our DCs, extend voice to other processes, and to take advantage of the many advances in speech and mobile computing technology. Over the last decade our average 'bottle' picking productivity rates have more than tripled. Our pre-voice pick rates were approximately 3 bottle picks per minutes, and today our top performing employees pick more than 9 bottles per minute, as we have rolled out to other RNDC distribution centers the latest generation of Jennifer voice directed picking software, including the Speedometer productivity management tool."

In bucket-brigade picking, workers pick items into totes or cartons and pass the work along to subsequent workers in a pick module. When the worker at the end of the line finishes a carton he walks back up the line to get the next carton in process, forcing the upstream worker to move to the next carton in line, and so on. The effect: work is automatically balanced among the workers in the module – there are no bottlenecks or production lags and every worker always has work. Jennifer also supports multi-order bucket brigades in which several customer totes are batched together in a train, so that the picker can reach into each slot once to fill multiple orders. Multi-order picking drives incremental productivity gains above standard, single-order bucket brigades. "Bucket-brigade style picking is one of the early process innovations that helped voice technology migrate from traditional each- and case-picking applications to high-velocity picking processes," said Jeff Slevin, COO of Lucas Systems. "Since that time we've added a number of enhancements to push the productivity envelope even further, including the ability to batch orders in a train of cartons, which we first introduced more than 6 years ago. This is a good example of how creative process engineering can drive additional, incremental productivity gains for customers."

About Lucas Systems, Inc.
More than 50 distribution centers in North America Use Jennifer VoicePlus for Pick-and-Pass Style Order Fulfillment, Including Advanced Multi-Order Picking. Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed warehouse applications on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp., Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. Jennifer VoicePlus, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with real-time reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/29/2011 -- Supply and Demand Chain Executive Magazine reported that Lucas Systems, Inc., http://www.lucasware.com, Jennifer VoicePlus supports voice picking and other voice directed warehouse tasks to improve associate productivity and accuracy while reducing distribution center costs. Jennifer is optimized for standard mobile computers, allowing customers to run Jennifer applications on the same terminals they already use for non-voice radio frequency (RF) applications. This provides additional cost savings and flexibility compared to traditional voice-only solutions.

Lucas Systems is the largest independent provider of voice-directed warehouse applications, entered into a strategic alliance with Barcoding, Inc., a leader in enterprise-wide mobility solutions. Under the partnership, Barcoding and Lucas will jointly market and sell Jennifer VoicePlus solutions – the first voice directed warehouse application built to run on open, industry standard mobile computers rather than single-purpose, voice-only hardware.

"Jennifer VoicePlus is the perfect extension to our mobility offerings for warehouse operations," said Shane Snyder, Vice President of Sales, Barcoding, Inc. "Through this partnership, new and existing Barcoding customers will receive the full advantage of Jennifer's next-generation voice-plus capabilities that drive higher ROI and lower total cost of ownership than older voice-only systems."

"Together, Barcoding and Lucas deliver voice directed warehouse solutions that provide greater operational improvements than any other option on the market," said Chris Sweeney, Senior Vice President of Lucas Systems. "Jennifer provides comprehensive voice-plus capabilities that allow users to use voice or scan barcodes interchangeably, ensuring they can work accurately and productively. For warehouse managers, Jennifer includes a complete suite of process reporting, productivity and other management tools – the Engage Management Services Console – that complement and extend existing warehouse management, labor management and other back-end systems."

About Barcoding, Inc.
Barcoding, Inc. is a national systems integrator, specializing in the development, deployment, and management of supply chain and mobility systems based on automated data capture (AIDC) and wireless technology. More than 2,500 organizations depend on Barcoding, Inc. as their trusted advisor for barcoding and radio frequency identification (RFID) applications automating operations in: field service, food and beverage, healthcare, manufacturing and distribution, retail, transportation and logistics, and wholesale inventory. For more information, visit http://www.barcoding.com.

About Lucas Systems, Inc.
Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed warehouse applications on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp., Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. Jennifer™ VoicePlus, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with real-time reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

SupplyChainBrain Names Jennifer Voice Directed Warehouse Applications to 9th Annual List of 100 Great Supply Chain Partners

Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/26/2011 -- "SupplyChainBrain's 9th annual list of 100 Great Supply Chain Partners is the result of a six-month on-line poll in which supply chain professionals were asked to nominate vendors and service providers whose solutions have made a significant impact on their company's efficiency, customer service and overall supply chain performance," says Brad Berger, Publisher of Supply Chain Brain. "Nominations were received for hundreds of trading partners in every aspect of supply chain management."

Lucas Systems, Inc., www.lucasware.com, the leading provider of voice-directed warehouse applications for open, mobile computers, has been selected by Supply Chain Brain as a 2011 Great Supply Chain Partner. Lucas Systems is now the largest independent provider of voice applications in North America, with tens of thousands of associates using Jennifer VoicePlus software for voice picking and other voice directed warehouse applications.

"We are honored that so many Lucas Systems customers nominated us as a great supply chain partner," says Chris Sweeney, Senior Vice President of Lucas Systems. "This award speaks directly to our success in delivering superior customer results and user satisfaction."

About SupplyChainBrain
SupplyChainBrain, the world's most comprehensive supply chain management information resource, is accessed year round through a wide range of ever evolving multi-media formats by hundreds of thousands of senior level industry executives. In addition to addressing the fundamental principles of supply-chain management, SupplyChainBrain identifies emerging trends, technologies and best practices, forward thinking ideas and cutting-edge solutions-and continues to write and report about these as they evolve and mature.

About Lucas Systems, Inc.
Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed distribution center solutions on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company in the business. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp, Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. Jennifer, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/25/2011 -- Mobile Engage, first introduced in 2009, extends the Web-based reporting, management and configuration tools of Jennifer's Engage Management Service Console (MSC) to a mobile device using a standard mobile Web browser, including iPhone and Android devices. With Mobile Engage, warehouse managers can view work status across a DC, monitor associate productivity, view and manage exceptions (shorts, etc.), and access other management information and alerts available in the standard Web-based Engage MSC.

Lucas Systems, Inc., http://www.lucasware.com, the largest independent provider of voice-directed warehouse applications, today announced the second-generation of Mobile Engage, a mobile application designed to give warehouse managers real-time process updates via a Smartphone or industrial PDA. Mobile Engage 2.0 extends the Web-based intelligence, reporting and management alerts available in the Jennifer VoicePlus System to managers using a Smartphone or PDA. Mobile Engage is available as an add-on to existing Jennifer VoicePlus voice picking systems.

"Mobile Engage allows supervisors and managers to get out on the warehouse floor without losing touch with what's happening elsewhere in the operation," says Chris Sweeney, Senior Vice President of Lucas Systems. "For the past decade we have been adding more powerful reporting and management tools to Jennifer, helping managers to better plan and manage their operations through the Web-based Engage MSC. Mobile Engage is a natural extension of this, pushing real-time business intelligence to mobile devices. This seemingly small addition to an existing voice directed warehouse system can drive big improvements in management efficiency and effectiveness."

About Lucas Systems, Inc.
Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed warehouse applications on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp., Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. Jennifer VoicePlus, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with real-time reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/25/2011 -- "Jennifer VoicePlus is the perfect extension to our mobility offerings for warehouse operations," said Shane Snyder, Vice President of Sales, Barcoding, Inc. "Through this partnership, new and existing Barcoding customers will receive the full advantage of Jennifer's next-generation voice-plus capabilities that drive higher ROI and lower total cost of ownership than older voice-only systems."

Lucas Systems, Inc., http://www.lucasware.com, the largest independent provider of voice-directed warehouse applications, today announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Barcoding, Inc., a leader in enterprise-wide mobility solutions. Under the partnership, Barcoding and Lucas will jointly market and sell Jennifer VoicePlus solutions – the first voice directed warehouse application built to run on open, industry standard mobile computers rather than single-purpose, voice-only hardware.

Jennifer VoicePlus supports voice picking and other voice directed warehouse tasks to improve associate productivity and accuracy while reducing distribution center costs. Jennifer is optimized for standard mobile computers, allowing customers to run Jennifer applications on the same terminals they already use for non-voice radio frequency (RF) applications.

This provides additional cost savings and flexibility compared to traditional voice-only solutions.

"Together, Barcoding and Lucas deliver voice directed warehouse solutions that provide greater operational improvements than any other option on the market," said Chris Sweeney, Senior Vice President of Lucas Systems. "Jennifer provides comprehensive voice-plus capabilities that allow users to use voice or scan barcodes interchangeably, ensuring they can work accurately and productively. For warehouse managers, Jennifer includes a complete suite of process reporting, productivity and other management tools – the Engage Management Services Console – that complement and extend existing warehouse management, labor management and other back-end systems."

About Barcoding, Inc.
Barcoding, Inc. is a national systems integrator, specializing in the development, deployment, and management of supply chain and mobility systems based on automated data capture (AIDC) and wireless technology. More than 2,500 organizations depend on Barcoding, Inc. as their trusted advisor for barcoding and radio frequency identification (RFID) applications automating operations in: field service, food and beverage, healthcare, manufacturing and distribution, retail, transportation and logistics, and wholesale inventory. For more information, visit http://www.barcoding.com.

About Lucas Systems, Inc.
Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed warehouse applications on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp., Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. Jennifer™ VoicePlus, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with real-time reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/23/2011 -- Lucas Systems, Inc., (http://www.lucasware.com), the largest provider of voice-directed warehouse applications, was recently profiled by Manufacturing Journalist TR Cutler, for Quality Digest; the feature article is titled, Voice-Picking Technology Helps Improve Quality in Order Fulfillment. Cutler details how voice-picking combined with RFID, bar-code, and other technologies helps reduce errors and improve productivity.

Process requirements for catalog and online fulfillment centers are quite distinguishable from brick-and-mortar retailers. Even catalog companies such as Oriental Trading Co., Cornerstone Brands, and Augusta Sportswear face unique challenges, and each of them has turned to voice-picking technology to address logistical challenges.

The very nature of products sold, defines the requirement of voice systems needed to achieve fulfillment objectives. Oriental Trading sells party supplies, toys, and novelties; Augusta sells apparel; and Cornerstone sells housewares, including indoor and patio furniture.

"Standard order profiles, warehouse systems, and fulfillment processes vary from company to company," says Jeff Slevin, chief operating officer of Lucas Systems, provider of voice-directed logistics applications for warehouses and fulfillment centers. "At Cornerstone, order fillers use turret trucks to pick large items from high-bay racks, while staff at Augusta walk among shelves in pick modules."

Voice picking is a method of picking customer orders in warehouses and distribution centers using software applications that combine voice direction with speech recognition. The voice-picking applications use information from warehouse management systems (WMS) to create two-way conversations with warehouse workers, instructing them what to do and verifying and responding to the information associates speak back. Voice-picking software has been in use since the late 1990s as a means to improve productivity, accuracy, and safety in grocery, food and beverage, retail, consumer product goods, and other distribution operations.

In voice picking, a warehouse worker wears a headset connected to a small wearable computer, which tells the worker where to go and what to do using verbal prompts. Workers confirm their tasks by speaking pre-defined commands and reading confirmation codes printed on locations or products throughout the warehouse. The speech recognition software running on the wearable computer understands the workers' responses. The voice-picking software communicates with WMS or inventory systems via a wireless network.

About Lucas Systems, Inc.
More than 50 distribution centers in North America Use Jennifer VoicePlus for Pick-and-Pass Style Order Fulfillment, Including Advanced Multi-Order Picking. Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed warehouse applications on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp., Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. Jennifer VoicePlus, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with real-time reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/23/2011 -- More than 50 distribution centers in North America Use Jennifer VoicePlus for Pick-and-Pass Style Order Fulfillment, Including Advanced Multi-Order Picking. Lucas Systems, Inc., (http://www.lucasware.com), the largest provider of voice-directed warehouse applications, is celebrating the tenth anniversary of the first Jennifer bucket-brigade voice picking system at Republic National Distributing Company's Deerfield Beach, Florida distribution center. Today more than 50 DCs are using Jennifer voice-directed bucket brigades, in wine and spirits, publishing, convenience stores and retail. The latest version of Jennifer VoicePlus supports advanced multi-order bucket-brigade picking which further enhances flexibility and productivity, especially in high-density retail operations.

"We recognized long ago that voice was an ideal technology fit for our pick-and-pass bottle picking process, but voice was unproven in this type of operation," said Stefan Kirshenbaum, Corporate Vice President of Operations Systems and Services at Republic National Distributing Company. "Since those early days we have worked closely with Lucas to optimize our customer order picking process for our DCs, extend voice to other processes, and to take advantage of the many advances in speech and mobile computing technology. Over the last decade our average 'bottle' picking productivity rates have more than tripled. Our pre-voice pick rates were approximately 3 bottle picks per minutes, and today our top performing employees pick more than 9 bottles per minute, as we have rolled out to other RNDC distribution centers the latest generation of Jennifer voice directed picking software, including the Speedometer productivity management tool."

In bucket-brigade picking, workers pick items into totes or cartons and pass the work along to subsequent workers in a pick module. When the worker at the end of the line finishes a carton he walks back up the line to get the next carton in process, forcing the upstream worker to move to the next carton in line, and so on. The effect: work is automatically balanced among the workers in the module – there are no bottlenecks or production lags and every worker always has work. Jennifer also supports multi-order bucket brigades in which several customer totes are batched together in a train, so that the picker can reach into each slot once to fill multiple orders. Multi-order picking drives incremental productivity gains above standard, single-order bucket brigades. "Bucket-brigade style picking is one of the early process innovations that helped voice technology migrate from traditional each- and case-picking applications to high-velocity picking processes," said Jeff Slevin, COO of Lucas Systems. "Since that time we've added a number of enhancements to push the productivity envelope even further, including the ability to batch orders in a train of cartons, which we first introduced more than 6 years ago. This is a good example of how creative process engineering can drive additional, incremental productivity gains for customers."

About Lucas Systems, Inc.
Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed warehouse applications on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp., Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. Jennifer VoicePlus, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with real-time reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

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Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/22/2011 -- Supply and Demand Chain Executive Magazine reported that Lucas Systems, Inc., http://www.lucasware.com, the largest independent provider of voice-directed warehouse applications, entered into a strategic alliance with Barcoding, Inc., a leader in enterprise-wide mobility solutions. Under the partnership, Barcoding and Lucas will jointly market and sell Jennifer VoicePlus solutions – the first voice directed warehouse application built to run on open, industry standard mobile computers rather than single-purpose, voice-only hardware.

"Jennifer VoicePlus is the perfect extension to our mobility offerings for warehouse operations," said Shane Snyder, Vice President of Sales, Barcoding, Inc. "Through this partnership, new and existing Barcoding customers will receive the full advantage of Jennifer's next-generation voice-plus capabilities that drive higher ROI and lower total cost of ownership than older voice-only systems."

Jennifer VoicePlus supports voice picking and other voice directed warehouse tasks to improve associate productivity and accuracy while reducing distribution center costs. Jennifer is optimized for standard mobile computers, allowing customers to run Jennifer applications on the same terminals they already use for non-voice radio frequency (RF) applications. This provides additional cost savings and flexibility compared to traditional voice-only solutions.

"Together, Barcoding and Lucas deliver voice directed warehouse solutions that provide greater operational improvements than any other option on the market," said Chris Sweeney, Senior Vice President of Lucas Systems. "Jennifer provides comprehensive voice-plus capabilities that allow users to use voice or scan barcodes interchangeably, ensuring they can work accurately and productively. For warehouse managers, Jennifer includes a complete suite of process reporting, productivity and other management tools – the Engage Management Services Console – that complement and extend existing warehouse management, labor management and other back-end systems."

About Barcoding, Inc.
Barcoding, Inc. is a national systems integrator, specializing in the development, deployment, and management of supply chain and mobility systems based on automated data capture (AIDC) and wireless technology. More than 2,500 organizations depend on Barcoding, Inc. as their trusted advisor for barcoding and radio frequency identification (RFID) applications automating operations in: field service, food and beverage, healthcare, manufacturing and distribution, retail, transportation and logistics, and wholesale inventory. For more information, visit http://www.barcoding.com.

About Lucas Systems, Inc.
Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed warehouse applications on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp., Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. Jennifer™ VoicePlus, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with real-time reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

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Lucas Systems Introduces Mobile Engage 2.0, Smartphone-Based App Extends Jennifer VoicePlus

Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/18/2011 -- Lucas Systems, Inc., http://www.lucasware.com, the largest independent provider of voice-directed warehouse applications, today announced the second-generation of Mobile Engage, a mobile application designed to give warehouse managers real-time process updates via a Smartphone or industrial PDA. Mobile Engage 2.0 extends the Web-based intelligence, reporting and management alerts available in the Jennifer VoicePlus System to managers using a Smartphone or PDA. Mobile Engage is available as an add-on to existing Jennifer VoicePlus voice picking systems.

Mobile Engage, first introduced in 2009, extends the Web-based reporting, management and configuration tools of Jennifer's Engage Management Service Console (MSC) to a mobile device using a standard mobile Web browser, including iPhone and Android devices. With Mobile Engage, warehouse managers can view work status across a DC, monitor associate productivity, view and manage exceptions (shorts, etc.), and access other management information and alerts available in the standard Web-based Engage MSC.

"Mobile Engage allows supervisors and managers to get out on the warehouse floor without losing touch with what's happening elsewhere in the operation," says Chris Sweeney, Senior Vice President of Lucas Systems. "For the past decade we have been adding more powerful reporting and management tools to Jennifer, helping managers to better plan and manage their operations through the Web-based Engage MSC. Mobile Engage is a natural extension of this, pushing real-time business intelligence to mobile devices. This seemingly small addition to an existing voice directed warehouse system can drive big improvements in management efficiency and effectiveness."

About Lucas Systems, Inc.
Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed warehouse applications on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp., Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. Jennifer VoicePlus, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with real-time reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

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Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/17/2011 -- Lucas Systems, Inc., the largest independent provider of voice-directed warehouse applications, today announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Barcoding, Inc., a leader in enterprise-wide mobility solutions. Under the partnership, Barcoding and Lucas will jointly market and sell Jennifer VoicePlus solutions – the first voice directed warehouse application built to run on open, industry standard mobile computers rather than single-purpose, voice-only hardware.

"Jennifer VoicePlus is the perfect extension to our mobility offerings for warehouse operations," said Shane Snyder, Vice President of Sales, Barcoding, Inc. "Through this partnership, new and existing Barcoding customers will receive the full advantage of Jennifer's next-generation voice-plus capabilities that drive higher ROI and lower total cost of ownership than older voice-only systems."

Jennifer VoicePlus supports voice picking and other voice directed warehouse tasks to improve associate productivity and accuracy while reducing distribution center costs. Jennifer is optimized for standard mobile computers, allowing customers to run Jennifer applications on the same terminals they already use for non-voice radio frequency (RF) applications. This provides additional cost savings and flexibility compared to traditional voice-only solutions.

"Together, Barcoding and Lucas deliver voice directed warehouse solutions that provide greater operational improvements than any other option on the market," said Chris Sweeney, Senior Vice President of Lucas Systems. "Jennifer provides comprehensive voice-plus capabilities that allow users to use voice or scan barcodes interchangeably, ensuring they can work accurately and productively. For warehouse managers, Jennifer includes a complete suite of process reporting, productivity and other management tools – the Engage Management Services Console – that complement and extend existing warehouse management, labor management and other back-end systems."

About Barcoding, Inc.
Barcoding, Inc. is a national systems integrator, specializing in the development, deployment, and management of supply chain and mobility systems based on automated data capture (AIDC) and wireless technology. More than 2,500 organizations depend on Barcoding, Inc. as their trusted advisor for barcoding and radio frequency identification (RFID) applications automating operations in: field service, food and beverage, healthcare, manufacturing and distribution, retail, transportation and logistics, and wholesale inventory. For more information, visit www.barcoding.com.

About Lucas Systems, Inc.
Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed warehouse applications on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp., Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. Jennifer™ VoicePlus, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with real-time reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

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Modern Materials Handling Profiles How Bakery is Help by Jennifer Voice Picking Solution

Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/16/2011 -- Lucas Systems, Inc., (http://www.lucasware.com) the leading provider of voice-directed warehouse applications for open, mobile computers. In a recent issue of Modern Materials Handling, Bob Trebilcock, Executive Editor discussed how Tastykake bakes up materials handling success with Jennifer, the leading voice recognition technology. For more than 80 years, the bulk of the apple pies, Butterscotch Krimpets and Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes that made Tastykake a household name in Philadelphia, were baked in a flagship bakery built in the 1920s by the Tasty Baking Company.

Tastykake has a new state-of-the-art bakery because the original structure had outlived its usefulness. "It was a multistory building that was hard to maneuver around and hard to maintain," noted Autumn Bayles, senior vice president of strategic operations. "We had also outgrown the warehousing and shipping area and had to use another building around the corner. That led to a lot of double handling of product."

The solution was a state-of-the-art, 345,000-square-foot bakery, including 100,000 square feet of warehouse space, which opened for business in the summer of 2010. The overall facility was designed with sustainability in mind, including several features targeting LEED-Silver certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design initiative.

After just six months of running a voice-enabled facility, Terry Sabler, director of distribution said they are running a much faster warehouse. "We had a lot of overtime in the old facility, in part because we had to bring product over from around the corner," she says. "We also have more accurate inventory with voice than in the past because our putaway and picking processes are more precise."

In addition, the voice system includes metrics to measure how efficiently operations are working; previously that was handled with spreadsheets. The next step, will be to pick two orders at a time, since the facility is using double pallet handling jacks. Instead of staging pallets for delivery, the next step is to load a completed pallet into a truck immediately.

About Lucas Systems, Inc.
Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed warehouse applications on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp., Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. JenniferVoicePlus, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with real-time reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

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Lucas Systems, Makers of Jennifer Voice-Picking, Ideal for Tight Margins of Grocery Distribution

Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/12/2011 -- John Charleson, Director Supply Chain Management and Information Technology for grocery distribution firm Longo's, selected Jennifer Voice Picking solution because, "As margins decrease and competition increases in the grocery business we are always looking for opportunities to streamline and improve efficiencies. We had looked at other voice solutions in the past but the capital costs made them prohibitive. The Jennifer solution enabled us to utilize existing hardware and delivered some missing functionality from our operations in the new WMS application that we were looking to install."

According to Jeff Slevin, Chief Operating Officer of Lucas Systems, "Most grocery companies we talk to turn to voice to reduce picking errors. The costs for errors can be especially high. For example, if you are shipping cases of steaks to a store and you send four cases instead of three, that error can cost several hundred dollars. On the other side, if you don't ship an item the store needs, they may face an out of stock, which hurts their sales. We have seen grocery customers that have slashed errors by more than 50% when moving from paper-based picking to voice. And like Longos, these are some of the best, most efficient distributors in the business."

With such slim margins in the grocery business, anything that can be done to squeeze costs out of the distribution center helps – whether through productivity gains or accuracy improvements.

Since 1998, Lucas Systems (http://www.lucasware.com), has delivered more voice-directed warehouse applications on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp., Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. JenniferVoicePlus, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with real-time reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

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Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/12/2011 -- Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed warehouse applications on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp., Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. JenniferVoicePlus, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with real-time reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

Lucas Systems, Inc., (http://www.lucasware.com), the leading provider of voice-directed warehouse applications for open, mobile computers, recently announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Stratix Corporation, a leading mobile enterprise solutions innovator. Under the partnership, Stratix and Lucas will jointly market, sell and support Jennifer VoicePlus solutions – the first voice directed warehouse application built to run on open, industry standard mobile computers rather than single-purpose voice-only hardware. Jennifer supports voice picking and other voice directed warehouse tasks to improve associate productivity and accuracy while reducing distribution center costs.

"Jennifer VoicePlus offers next-generation voice capabilities that help fulfillment and distribution centers achieve efficiency far beyond legacy voice-only solutions," says Peter Dalpe, Vice President of Sales, Stratix. "Previous voice solutions required special-purpose voice-only appliances, but Jennifer takes full advantage of the flexible data capture capabilities of today's rugged mobile computers that are already widely deployed by our customers. Through our Jennifer partnership these customers can leverage advanced voice-plus capabilities to slash total hardware ownership costs and drive a greater return on their investments."

Under this new partnership, Stratix will deliver voice directed warehouse solutions leveraging its end-to-end enterprise mobility services and Jennifer VoicePlus software optimized for best-of-breed ruggedized devices from leading hardware manufacturers. Jennifer is optimized for standard mobile computers, allowing customers to run Jennifer applications on the same terminals they already use for non-voice radio frequency (RF) applications, providing additional cost savings and flexibility compared to traditional voice-only solutions.

"Together, Stratix and Lucas deliver voice directed warehouse solutions that provide bigger operational improvements than any other option on the market," says Chris Sweeney, SVP of Lucas Systems. "Jennifer VoicePlus provides comprehensive voice-plus capabilities that allow users to use voice or scan barcodes interchangeably, ensuring they can work as accurately and productively as possible. And for warehouse managers, Jennifer comes with a complete suite of process reporting, productivity and other management tools – the Engage Management Services Console – that complement and extend existing warehouse management, labor management and other back-end systems."

About Stratix Corporation
Stratix is a leader in enterprise mobility software and services, architecting the entire mobility infrastructure for companies needing to move and access mission-critical data anywhere anytime. From developing highly configurable rules-based Stratix Mobile applications to provisioning, activating and managing every asset within the mobile supply chain, Stratix delivers end-to-end mobility solutions that drive business results in operational efficiency, accelerated workflow, and improved customer service. Many of the world's Fortune 500 companies in Retail, Transportation & Logistics, and Field Service rely on Stratix for application consulting, design and deployment of an integrated mobility solution.

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Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/04/2011 -- Pick to light solutions may utilize an RF bar code scanner, however employees must then enter data using a keypad, which is far more prone to error. Similarly, with a paper-based system, a food distribution center employee writes the data on a log sheet, which must then be key entered, introducing two places for data error and compromising the quality. Pick to light generally is not used in grocery, foodservice, and other major food distribution centers – which are generally case-picking processes. The main alternative to voice in these segments is paper or label-based picking or RF/barcode scanning.

Pate Dawson Company is a closely held fourth generation, family-owned foodservice distributor, since 1885. The firm selected a voice picking solution because many users were skipping certain locations, and the voice picking solution told them to go to the skipped location and pick. The users believed they could build a better pallet because of the irregular shape of the item and wanted to put it on top. Jeff Slevin, COO of Lucas Systems shared, "The insight the voice system gave them was important… if we re-slot items in the order that makes it best for our selectors, we won't have them skipping slots, and productivity goes up." The company performed a re-slotting exercise and indeed boosted productivity, while maintaining quality; thanks to the voice picking technology.

Pate Dawson justified their investment in voice on expected accuracy improvements – they went from about one picker error per 1000 cases to less than one error per 15,000 cases.

Productivity gains were gravy and some of those benefits were realized a year or more after voice was implemented due to managers using the insight of the management console to understand how and what to re-slot. Slotting optimization is a field unto itself, and so-called Tier One WMS systems provide algorithms for slotting. Pate Dawson did not have a warehouse management system, so they used the insight provided by the voice system.

"It's not just about the quality of the food product picked," asserts Slevin, makers of Jennifer VoicePlus. "The product traceability initiatives in grocery and food service must be able to track the date an item is produced for expiration when shipped from a distribution center." While some customers will accept a product within thirty days of expiration, others might only accept within sixty days of expiration date. Because of this critically important variability, capturing date information when picking with a voice system as compared to light – is often preferred.

The advantage of voice systems is that they combine the advantages of voice and RF in a single, seamless process. Slevin insists, "In a voice system food distribution companies capture the date code, an employee with a headset simply goes to the location, say picking item, and the solution, such as Jennifer, says enter date; the person reads in date, and captures that information at the point of pick."

Lucas Systems, Inc., (http://www.lucasware.com) the leading provider of voice-directed warehouse applications for open, mobile computers, was recently profiled by Manufacturing Journalist TR Cutler in the current issue of the Food and Beverage Journal.

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Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/01/2011 -- The advantage of voice systems is that they combine the advantages of voice and RF in a single, seamless process. Lucas Systems, Inc., (http://www.lucasware.com) the leading provider of voice-directed warehouse applications for open, mobile computers, was recently profiled by Manufacturing Journalist TR Cutler in the current issue of the Global Food Safety Resource Centre Newsletter. Voice-Picking Solutions Critical in Traceability examines the effectiveness of voice picking to handle a recall is quite distinct from a pick to light solution.

When food items are sent to hundreds of different restaurants, the food distribution center or manufacturing plant must be able to quickly and accurately identify which lots each location receives. Lot traceability is mandated by the Bioterrorism Act rules; it is further detailed in the new Food Safety Modernization Act. Additionally HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points) procedures may require that voice picking will enter a lot number at the time of the pick. Voice picking solutions address all three of these compliance statutes, and are frequently being used by food organizations as part of the ISO 22000 documentation of quality processes and procedures to manage a recall.

"It's not just about the quality of the food product picked," asserts Jeff Slevin, COO of Lucas Systems (http://www.lucasware.com), makers of Jennifer VoicePlus. "The product traceability initiatives in grocery and food service must be able to track the date an item is produced for expiration when shipped from a distribution center." While some customers will accept a product within thirty days of expiration, others might only accept within sixty days of expiration date. Because of this critically important variability, capturing date information when picking with a voice system as compared to light – is often preferred. Many foodservice companies continue to apply labels to cases, even as they pick the item with voice – the label is used on delivery at the customer location.

Slevin insists, "In a voice system food distribution companies capture the date code, an employee with a headset simply goes to the location, say picking item, and the solution, such as Jennifer, says enter date; the person reads in date, and captures that information at the point of pick." Date tracking is less of a regulatory mandate than a customer mandate because some customers will not take a product within thirty days of expiration.

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Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/29/2011 -- At Perkins Paper, the number one priority is shipping the right product, on time, every time. This commitment to service spurred managers at the broadline food-service distributor to implement voice automation technology to improve order selection and delivery accuracy.

Jennifer, (http://www.lucasware.com) the leading provider of voice-directed warehouse applications for open, mobile computers, was recently profiled by Manufacturing Journalist TR Cutler in the current issue of AS411.com. According to Cutler's article, "Voice Picking Automation Proves Perfect for Perkins Paper", Perkins Paper is New England's largest independent wholesale distributor of foodservice and sanitary maintenance supplies. The company was founded in 1915 and has grown through a number of acquisitions, as well as internal product category expansion.

"Like other companies, we're always trying to improve service to our customers," noted Walter Harrigan, Senior Vice President. "So our main goal for voice automation was to reduce shorts and wrongs, which improves customer service and also reduces our costs. If you don't send the right item to a customer, you have to taxi it out to them, and that costs a lot, probably $50-$60 per error".

Perkins installed the Jennifer VoicePlus picking, QC/Audit, and loading system from Lucas Systems to meet the objective of error-free automation processes. The nature voice of this automation solution had appeal according to Harrigan who also required the flexibility to adapt to unique aspects of the operations. In addition to traditional automated case picking to pallet, Perkins had unique requirements for small-item picking, and for picking slower-moving items in very narrow aisles (VNA).

While moving to the automated voice-picking solution Jennifer, Perkins also began using double pallet jacks rather than single jacks, to allow selectors to pick more orders each pass through the warehouse. The result from this automation was a significant productivity gain moving to double pallets, in addition to the 4-5% gains in productivity that were specific to the voice system.

Downstream from picking, Perkins uses the Jennifer QC/Audit system to double-check the accuracy of picking. The QC/Audit system utilizes an automated touch screen tablet PC. It allows checkers to compare pallet contents to the actual voice-pick results, and to fill shorts and correct any errors prior to releasing the route for loading.

50 Percent Fewer Errors With Higher Shipping Volumes
Since implementing Jennifer, Perkins reduced shipping errors every year while increasing shipping volumes. The company eliminated thirty-six percent of its shorts and wrongs compared the previous year, and for the first four months of this year it experience a further eighteen percent reduction, even though they shipped 350,000 more cases this year compared to last year.

About Lucas Systems, Inc.
Since 1998, Lucas Systems has delivered more voice-directed distribution center solutions on a wider variety of mobile computers than any other company in the business. Customers like Cardinal Health, C&S Wholesale Grocers, CVS/pharmacy, Do it Best Corp., Kraft Nabisco, and OfficeMax trust Lucas to deliver solutions that greatly improve worker productivity and accuracy because Lucas truly understands warehouse operations. Jennifer, the Lucas voice solution, creates a conversation with warehouse workers that frees their hands and eyes to focus on the job at hand. Jennifer also provides managers and supervisors with reporting and management tools that help them better manage their operations. Tens of thousands of associates at hundreds of distribution centers work with Jennifer every day.

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Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/25/2011 -- Pick to light solutions may utilize an RF bar code scanner, however employees must then enter data using a keypad, which is far more prone to error. Similarly, with a paper-based system, a food distribution center employee writes the data on a log sheet, which must then be key entered, introducing two places for data error and compromising the quality. Pick to light generally is not used in grocery, foodservice, and other major food distribution centers – which are generally case-picking processes. The main alternative to voice in these segments is paper or label-based picking or RF/barcode scanning.

Pate Dawson Company is a closely held fourth generation, family-owned foodservice distributor, since 1885. The firm selected a voice picking solution because many users were skipping certain locations, and the voice picking solution told them to go to the skipped location and pick. The users believed they could build a better pallet because of the irregular shape of the item and wanted to put it on top. Jeff Slevin, COO of Lucas Systems shared, "The insight the voice system gave them was important… if we re-slot items in the order that makes it best for our selectors, we won't have them skipping slots, and productivity goes up." The company performed a re-slotting exercise and indeed boosted productivity, while maintaining quality; thanks to the voice picking technology.

Pate Dawson justified their investment in voice on expected accuracy improvements – they went from about one picker error per 1000 cases to less than one error per 15,000 cases.

Productivity gains were gravy and some of those benefits were realized a year or more after voice was implemented due to managers using the insight of the management console to understand how and what to re-slot. Slotting optimization is a field unto itself, and so-called Tier One WMS systems provide algorithms for slotting. Pate Dawson did not have a warehouse management system, so they used the insight provided by the voice system.

"It's not just about the quality of the food product picked," asserts Slevin, makers of Jennifer VoicePlus. "The product traceability initiatives in grocery and food service must be able to track the date an item is produced for expiration when shipped from a distribution center." While some customers will accept a product within thirty days of expiration, others might only accept within sixty days of expiration date. Because of this critically important variability, capturing date information when picking with a voice system as compared to light – is often preferred.

The advantage of voice systems is that they combine the advantages of voice and RF in a single, seamless process. Slevin insists, "In a voice system food distribution companies capture the date code, an employee with a headset simply goes to the location, say picking item, and the solution, such as Jennifer, says enter date; the person reads in date, and captures that information at the point of pick."

Lucas Systems, Inc., (http://www.lucasware.com) the leading provider of voice-directed warehouse applications for open, mobile computers, was recently profiled by Manufacturing Journalist TR Cutler in the current issue of the International Food Safety Quality Network.

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Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/22/2011 -- In the current issue of Food Logistics, the Pate Dawson company, is profiled. The firm selected a voice picking solution because many users were skipping certain locations, and the voice picking solution told them to go to the skipped location and pick. The users believed they could build a better pallet because of the irregular shape of the item and wanted to put it on top. Jeff Slevin, COO of Lucas Systems shared, "The insight the voice system gave them was important… if we re-slot items in the order that makes it best for our selectors, we won't have them skipping slots, and productivity goes up." The company performed a re-slotting exercise and indeed boosted productivity, while maintaining quality; thanks to the voice picking technology.

Pate Dawson justified their investment in voice on expected accuracy improvements – they went from about one picker error per 1000 cases to less than one error per 15,000 cases. Productivity gains were gravy and some of those benefits were realized a year or more after voice was implemented due to managers using the insight of the management console to understand how and what to re-slot. Slotting optimization is a field unto itself, and so-called Tier One WMS systems provide algorithms for slotting. Pate Dawson did not have a warehouse management system, so they used the insight provided by the voice system.

"It's not just about the quality of the food product picked," asserts Slevin, makers of Jennifer VoicePlus. "The product traceability initiatives in grocery and food service must be able to track the date an item is produced for expiration when shipped from a distribution center." While some customers will accept a product within thirty days of expiration, others might only accept within sixty days of expiration date. Because of this critically important variability, capturing date information when picking with a voice system as compared to light – is often preferred. Pick to light solutions may utilize an RF bar code scanner, however employees must then enter data using a keypad, which is far more prone to error. Similarly, with a paper-based system, a food distribution center employee writes the data on a log sheet, which must then be key entered, introducing two places for data error and compromising the quality. Pick to light generally is not used in grocery, foodservice, and other major food distribution centers – which are generally case-picking processes. The main alternative to voice in these segments is paper or label-based picking or RF/barcode scanning.

The advantage of voice systems is that they combine the advantages of voice and RF in a single, seamless process. Slevin insists, "In a voice system food distribution companies capture the date code, an employee with a headset simply goes to the location, say picking item, and the solution, such as Jennifer, says enter date; the person reads in date, and captures that information at the point of pick."

Lucas Systems, Inc., (http://www.lucasware.com) the leading provider of voice-directed warehouse applications for open, mobile computers.

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Wexford, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/21/2011 -- The advantage of voice systems is that they combine the advantages of voice and RF in a single, seamless process according to leading manufacturing journalist TR Cutler in the current issue of Food and Beverage Journal. In a voice system food distribution companies capture the date code, an employee with a headset simply goes to the location, say picking item, and the solution, says enter date; the person reads in date, and captures that information at the point of pick.

Pate Dawson Company is a closely held fourth generation, family-owned foodservice distributor, since 1885. The firm selected a voice picking solution because many users were skipping certain locations, and the voice picking solution told them to go to the skipped location and pick. The users believed they could build a better pallet because of the irregular shape of the item and wanted to put it on top. Jeff Slevin, COO of Lucas Systems shared, "The insight the voice system gave them was important… if we re-slot items in the order that makes it best for our selectors, we won't have them skipping slots, and productivity goes up." The company performed a re-slotting exercise and indeed boosted productivity, while maintaining quality; thanks to the voice picking technology.

Pate Dawson justified their investment in voice on expected accuracy improvements – they went from about one picker error per 1000 cases to less than one error per 15,000 cases. Productivity gains were gravy and some of those benefits were realized a year or more after voice was implemented due to managers using the insight of the management console to understand how and what to re-slot. Slotting optimization is a field unto itself, and so-called Tier One WMS systems provide algorithms for slotting. Pate Dawson did not have a warehouse management system, so they used the insight provided by the voice system.

"It's not just about the quality of the food product picked," asserts Slevin, makers of Jennifer VoicePlus. "The product traceability initiatives in grocery and food service must be able to track the date an item is produced for expiration when shipped from a distribution center." While some customers will accept a product within thirty days of expiration, others might only accept within sixty days of expiration date. Because of this critically important variability, capturing date information when picking with a voice system as compared to light – is often preferred. Pick to light solutions may utilize an RF bar code scanner, however employees must then enter data using a keypad, which is far more prone to error. Similarly, with a paper-based system, a food distribution center employee writes the data on a log sheet, which must then be key entered, introducing two places for data error and compromising the quality. Pick to light generally is not used in grocery, foodservice, and other major food distribution centers – which are generally case-picking processes. The main alternative to voice in these segments is paper or label-based picking or RF/barcode scanning.

Lucas Systems, Inc., (http://www.lucasware.com) the leading provider of voice-directed warehouse applications for open, mobile computers, was recently profiled by Manufacturing Journalist TR Cutler in the current issue of the Food and Beverage Journal.

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