Honeywell and SAP have joined forces to provide the same powerful Honeywell Voice technology that over one million distribution center users depend on, to SAP Business One DC operations, enabling workers to be more productive, accurate and safe.

Flexible Deployment

Guided Work Solutions brings an integrated mobile application and voice-directed work to modern Android and iOS mobile devices through a configurable, fully SAP-licensed solution.

Speed to Peak Performanc e

Built for operation in both non-voice and voice-directed modes, Guided Work Solutions can be configured and deployed with ease based on your DC’s requirements, quickly resulting in optimal worker productivity and increased business value.

Enhanced Worker Experience

The seamless integration of voice technology into daily tasks empowers workers by enabling efficiency without a disruptive learning curve.

Honeywell Transforms Picking in Small and Medium Distribution Centers with Voice for SAP Business One

FORT MILL, S.C., Oct. 18, 2018 – Honeywell (NYSE: HON) today announced the launch of a fully integrated voice-directed productivity solution for SAP Business One® users.

Honeywell signed an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with SAP (NYSE: SAP) to integrate and offer its Guided Work Solutions as an add-on for SAP Business One. The bundled solutions are expected to provide distribution center customers with improved productivity, accuracy and safety.

Honeywell’s Guided Work Solutions is a software application that runs on the AndroidTM operating system and is based on the company’s industry-leading Vocollect voice technology. The worker-focused software is integrated with SAP Business One, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform designed for small and medium enterprise distribution centers.

“For more than 20 years, distribution centers globally have achieved significant productivity and accuracy gains by empowering their workers with Honeywell Vocollect voice solutions,” said Bill Birnie, general manager of voice solutions for Honeywell Safety and Productivity Solutions. “With our new Guided Work Solutions, we can help small- and medium-sized enterprises smoothly and quickly deploy the same voice-directed technology used by some of the world’s largest and most complex fulfilment operations.”

The integration with SAP software makes it easy for workers to perform complex warehousing tasks, such as picking, receiving, put-away, packing and shipping inventory. For example, when SAP Business One receives a work order, Honeywell’s Guided Work Solutions translates that order into a set of optimized interactive voice commands to allow workers to perform their tasks hands-free and eyes-free.

The software runs on a wide range of compatible hardware, including Honeywell’s mobile computers, as well as other Android mobile devices. The Android platform provides support for multiple interfaces including voice, scanning and keypad.

SAP Business One is a software application that provides small- and medium-sized enterprises with solutions to manage warehouse operations, logistics and order fulfillment. Through the SAP partner program, SAP provides companies like Honeywell with access to technologies and platforms to build integrated solutions that are easy to deploy for end-users.

By allowing workers to receive instructions and capture data hands-free and eyes-free, voice technology improves efficiency, accuracy and worker safety. It also speeds up training times for onboarding new workers by simplifying and standardizing workflows in distribution centers and warehouses.

“Businesses are working to grow their operations while addressing their customers’ expectations for speed and accuracy. Our bundled voice solution will allow even the smallest businesses to make their distribution operations more efficient by adding voice to their existing warehouse management system,” said Birnie.

Nearly 1 million mobile workers use Honeywell Vocollect voice solutions in distribution centers around the world. More than 80 percent of the top supermarket chains in North America have deployed Honeywell’s voice technology. The technology has been shown to increase warehouse worker productivity up to 35 percent, while reducing errors by up to 25 percent.

SAP Business One users can see a live demonstration of Honeywell’s new technology at booth 14 at the SAP Biz.ONE conference in Orlando, Florida, running October 22-24, 2018. For more information about Honeywell’s Guided Work Solution, please see more here.

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Honeywell Safety and Productivity Solutions (SPS) provides products, software and connected solutions that improve productivity, workplace safety and asset performance for our customers across the globe. We deliver on this promise through industry-leading mobile devices, software, cloud technology and automation solutions, the broadest range of personal protective equipment and gas detection technology, and custom-engineered sensors, switches and controls. We  also manufacture and sell a broad portfolio of footwear for work, play and outdoor activities, including XtraTufTM and Muck BootTM brand footwear.

Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 software-industrial company that delivers industry specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Our technologies help everything from aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit Honeywell here.

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Optimize Your Workflow Performance with Voice

In these challenging times, it’s a balancing act to drive profitable growth and streamline existing processes to further reduce costs and make an efficient business run even better. Honeywell can help you identify additional ways to reduce your operating costs, while supporting increased workforce productivity and greater worker accuracy.

Honeywell is a leading provider of innovative voice technology solutions, helping companies with mobile workers run a better business with voice. Honeywell’s Vocollect™ voice solutions provide you with streamlined best-in-class business processes to take your organization to the next level of operating efficiency. Our extensive supply chain industry domain expertise has helped us successfully onboard almost one million mobile workers around the world.

Honeywell offers the number one voice solution in the industry, specifically designed to fully leverage existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) and warehouse management system (WMS) technology investments with the industry’s broadest and deepest data integration solution portfolio. We provide an elegantly integrated solution from the headset to host data system for maximum worker confidence and ergonomics. Honeywell is proud to lead the industry forward with our market-leading Vocollect A700 Series solutions that optimize voice and scanning. Delivering results starts with our Value Engagement Process, where our team learns more about your specific business objectives as we gain an understanding of your detailed operational and workflow processes. We meet with key management to better understand the prioritization of the business issues that you want to address. Together, we will physically walk through one of your targeted facilities to document and observe workers executing various tasks. Our observations and recommendations go well beyond just where voice technology could add quantifiable business value. After all, we want to help you run a better business with voice.

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