Aiming for the perfect pallet

Both companies, along with 3PL Norbert Dentressangle, also picked up the Warehouse Efficiency award for their Voice and Intelligent Volumetric-Cubing Solution.

Kellogg’s saw a growth in individual case pick assembly requirements which created the need for innovation through the use of Voice-directed picking combined with Intelligent Volumetric-Cubing.

Voiteq’s VoiceMan Execution System took master data to cube and group products into the appropriate customer specific pallet stack, ensuring they are picked and built correctly and transportable to stores without compromising product integrity and within tighter delivery lead times.

“Since last year we’ve worked very hard with Voiteq to develop a unique solution. Our customers’ requirements can vary and expectation for the perfect pallet is high, which means our service needs to remain very flexible to fulfil these obligations,” commented Abzy Shaikh, head of UK & ROI distribution at Kellogg’s.

Kellogg’s with Voiteq implemented a warehouse solution which generated a collective productivity improvement of 40 per cent in case pick operations. Retailers can now receive their orders stacked to their own requirements and built in order to protect the product and shorten breakdown times.

“The Voice and Volumetric-Cubing project with Kellogg’s was one of the first of its kind and we worked closely with Kellogg’s and its third party logistics provider, Norbert Dentressangle, to develop a seamless Voice-directed work solution that also takes weight, size and stack metrics into account,” remarked Isabel McCabe, managing director of Voiteq.