Operators of warehouses and distribution centers face tighter order fulfillment schedules, thin margins, and increasing competition. Augmented Reality (AR) applications running on smart glasses offer the opportunity to give workers task guidance that is visual and interactive enough to improve their productivity and accuracy.
Loading & Unloading
Receiving
Pick & Pack
Cycle Counting
Kitting
Shipping & Returns
Skylight is a low-code development platform that helps businesses connect their workers directly to the systems that drive their business processes. With Skylight, your teams can interface with your WMS applications on smart glasses that are customized to your warehouse process. Skylight applications are the most flexible, customizable, and easy to manage connected worker applications on the marketplace.
15
Typical Speed improvement in picking
80
Percent of warehouses managing orders through a digitized WMS
10
Typical reduction in errors
Understand how to increase order processing and improve warehouse safety with augmented reality
Smart glasses are a game changing new technology for the warehouse and Upskill can accelerate your adoption with Skylight.
Want to be ready for seasonal demand or simply improve your rates to be more competitive. We can help with our scalable AR solution that is secure and can be rapidly deployed as new use cases emerge across your warehouse and supply chain operations.
- Gain real-time visibility of inventory locations
- Accelerate staffing ramp up and knowledge transfer
- Reduce rework and errors
- Get quick access to remote experts
- Resolve exceptions in real-time and create digital audit trails
“Upskill’s augmented reality platform for smart glasses has enabled greater efficiencies in Ryder’s warehouses—from saving time and improving accuracy, to streamlining the jobs of hands-on warehouse personnel. The use of wearable, hands-free technology powered by Skylight has decreased the time it takes to pick and scan inventory while improving efficiency. At Ryder, we’re all about investing in technologies that ensure safety and reliability, as well as improved productivity, visibility, and customer service levels.” — Gary Allen, Vice President of Supply Chain Excellence, Ryder
How logistics operations work with Skylight
Get Real-time Insights
Skylight has powerful integration hooks for work process insights and role-based views.
For warehouse operators, your teams can visualize where picks are happening in the store, see trending pick rates, and where inventory is out of stock.
And like every application in Skylight, these views can run in glasses, or on your iOS or Android phones.
Common 3PL use cases
Vision picking
Reduce round trip times by providing real-time item location, quantity and aisle on workers’ smart glasses
Receiving
Display information from ring scanners or other WMS systems to identify items and confirm locations
Loading and unloading
Keep workers’ heads up and prevent hazardous distractions during loading and unloading operations
Training
Accelerate new hire productivity by giving workers on-the-job training and guided instruction
Kitting
Process and prioritize orders by displaying kitting item lists in the logical order they should be retrieved
Configure to order (CTO)
Deliver live video engineering support to workers’ smart glasses to increase the quality of CTO products
Cycle counting
Perform inventory audits faster by confirming item location data and taking photos hands-free
Exception management
Stream live video to back-office supervisors to get input pick order changes as it happens
Equipment maintenance
Quickly repair equipments such as item sorters by allowing remote experts to view and solve issues in real-time
Case Study: GE sees 46% performance improvement in picking and kitting
Why choose Skylight?
Leading organizations across the world have trusted Skylight to deliver mission-critical applications for their workforce.