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ZETESMEDEA - PROCESS OPTIMIZATION IN THE WAREHOUSE
A highly competitive industry Subject to strong economic pressures, a company’s main objective is to secure high levels of productivity while minimizing costs. Achieving this requires high levels of automation to speed up processes and minimize the number of errors. Accurate, rapid deliveries are a decisive factor in the choice of supplier. The spread of e-commerce also presents growth opportunities for ZetesMedea. The organization of a dedicated e-commerce warehouse is very different from that of a traditional goods distribution warehouse. Serving a larger number of customers with smaller quantities of products, it has its own specific needs. In July 2013, Zetes acquired the French company L4 Epsilon, specializing in the e-commerce sector. Currently, the L4 Epsilon proposition is being integrated into ZetesMedea.
ZetesMedea is a logistics execution system that improves the efficiency of warehouse processes. It helps reduce costs, permits error-free execution of operations and provides real-time visibility of warehouse events by integrating advanced technologies like voice and ImageID.
This solution is of primary interest to the retail and food sectors, both in traditional business and e-commerce.
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Visibility from reception through to shipping Zetes pioneered the introduction of voice recognition in warehouse processing. Since then it has successfully advanced the technology and extended it to other areas such as order picking. Within ZetesMedea, voice is the solution that still presents the greatest level of opportunity. Based on the MCL Voice system, the ZetesMedea Voice solution is a powerful system with operators no longer requiring training, or having to record their voice profiles, but able to start working immediately. Moreover, unlike other voice technologies, MCL Voice offers a choice of different hardware suppliers and allows voice to be combined with other data capture technologies. Zetes has also developed a dock door control module, based on ImageID technology, which enables trucks to be loaded faster, while reducing errors. The ability to manage all warehouse processes is an important competitive advantage for Zetes, allowing the user to track a product from the point at which it enters the warehouse to when it leaves.
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