Between growing e-commerce sales, seasonal changes in demand, and shifting health regulations, supply chains now operate in a highly dynamic landscape where several factors can make or break productivity and customer satisfaction. While striving to decrease delivery timeframes, modern warehouses must triumph over several challenges like fluctuating stock levels, back orders, and reverse logistics, which is why legacy visibility systems struggle to account for every challenge interfering with enterprise success. On the other hand, future-forward predictive technologies have been shown to enable:

  1. Prevented out-of-stocks – Real-time updates on stock counts help warehouses adjust replenishment levels to keep up with demand without overstocking.
  2. Forecasts in demand – As time goes by, collected data can be used to highlight operational patterns and overlooked peak seasons, so your warehouse can better serve demands.
  3. Better resource allocation – In pinpointing asset usage across the warehouse, operators can see which stages of the fulfillment process have a greater need for more tools.

To eliminate the complexities behind intelligent visibility, systems like Zebra’s Visibility IQ have been developed to fit seamlessly onto current handheld computers, accelerating deployment with little interference.

What is Visibility IQ?

Inventory data allows you to proactively track workflows and bypass potential bottlenecks before they harm productivity. Zebra’s Visibility IQ takes the three components highlighted above further by housing information on a cloud-based system, emphasizing both savings and security. The result is:

  • Data-driven planning to adjust workflows during peak seasons
  • Hassle-free device sharing since operators can assess device availability based on number of possible users
  • Overarching view of every device’s battery, memory, and WiFi performance in the whole fleet
  • Maximized security as data can be cleared remotely from lost/stolen devices before they compromise your operations.

With the proper expertise, implementing a higher level of intelligent visibility can set your workflows one step ahead of change. Reach out to our modernization team to learn different ways you can expand operational visibility without interrupting productivity.