Primary Marking Solutions - Warehouse Management System
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Below is an example of a solution Primary Marking created for a National Industries for the Blind customer:

Customer: Lighthouse for the Blind Industries, St. Louis
Description of Business:

For more than 100 years, Lighthouse for the Blind has helped people who are blind or partially sighted overcome the challenges of vision loss. Promoting independence, equality and self-reliance through rehabilitation training and relevant services, the organization's primary mission is to create jobs for the blind. The Lighthouse's 25,000 square-foot St. Louis packing facility and its employees fulfill this mission by assembling large medical kits for the U.S. government, shipping hundreds of kits each year.

Problem:

Although much of the work at the Lighthouse St. Louis facility was being performed by blind employees, many of the assembly tasks critical to the organization's product could not be accomplished by the blind – they could not pick products, perform materials handling tasks or prepare or move items for the kits. "This location assembles kits that contain more than 500 line items and can take up fifteen pallets, such as triage station kits, and the majority of our labor force could not participate in the work," said Lighthouse for the Blind St. Louis IT Manager Mark Adams. "Ninety percent of our employees are legally blind, so we needed a new warehouse management solution that was completely blind friendly."The location's IT management relied on its 20-plus year relationship with data collection implementation experts at Primary Marking for a new system, with a twist."The Lighthouse perspective on efficiency is very different from that of a traditional enterprise," said Adams. "Everything we use, everything we do must first and foremost be blind friendly. Primary Marking understands the special circumstances of our operation and suggested that we use Intermec mobile computers, hands-free scanners and speech recognition software as a navigation and picking system."

Solution:

"Primary Marking wrote our warehouse management software specifically for the Lighthouse St. Louis application, and to work with our Macola-based ERP system," said Adams. "This was a challenging task since we have such a broad product line that changes all the time, and requirements differ from kit to kit."
The new warehouse management and speech recognition system now enables the organization's blind employees to locate and pick items to help the company ship tens of millions of dollars in kits each year. And the system's multiple benefits are making life easier and more productive for the entire organization.

Conclusion:

Although the resulting improvements in efficiency and inventory accuracy are a welcome change, Lighthouse St. Louis recognizes the biggest benefit of the new Intermec system is adding to its blind workforce."The new system has improved inventory accuracy – we've gone from 70% to 95% accuracy since the implementation," said Adams. "But most importantly to us, the Intermec solution has made a huge difference for our blind employees – they now can locate and pick the items completely by speech," Adams said. "The solution has allowed Lighthouse St. Louis to employ two more full time blind employees for a year for picking and assembling medical kits. And that's the reason we're here."
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