{"id":54127,"date":"2023-02-16T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=54127"},"modified":"2023-02-16T09:07:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T01:07:24","slug":"automation-can-help-deal-with-labor-gap-tech-can-make-labor-more-productive-zebra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2023\/02\/16\/automation-can-help-deal-with-labor-gap-tech-can-make-labor-more-productive-zebra\/","title":{"rendered":"Automation can help deal with labor gap; tech can make labor more productive, says Zebra\u2019s SVP Suresh Menon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA –<\/em> Even if 70% more jobs are being advertised in the last two years, there are 10% less people responding, according to a study done by Zebra Technologies Corporation. With this, it\u2019s a \u201csqueeze\u201d since \u201clabor is the hardest gap that needs to be closed,\u201d said Suresh Menon, SVP and GM for software solutions, Zebra Technologies Corporation here at NetEvents, a gathering of technology sector experts and opinion shapers, even as he stressed that \u201cthere aren\u2019t enough people.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Menon, therefore, the \u201csolution is automation.\u201d The question then is, \u201cis there automation that\u2019s there that can help you do the task fast?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the warehouse and manufacturing environments, for instance, 92% of warehouse associates \u201cbelieve that technology advancement will make the warehouse environment more attractive to workers\u201d, according to the company\u2019s own Warehousing Vision Study<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can keep training and retraining the models. As the machine learns, you can make more changes,\u201d said Menon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zebra Technologies Corporation specifically offers mobile computers and tablets with exclusive suite of software, apps and utilities; printers; and barcode scanners with scanning abilities providing niot just visibility but also real-time analytics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Menon admitted that the answer is not always automation\u201d and that \u201csometimes you can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an example, some retail players may not be able to hire enough staff to man shops at all times. In this case, Menon said that the focus is, instead, shifted on \u201chow to make more persons more productive. And there are lots of things we can do to make (staff) productive.\u201d In this case, technology still helps, and for Zebra Technologies Corporation, \u201csoftware portfolio is able to prioritize what needs to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There remain challenges to automatioon, obviously, including data generfation, and how fast AI learns on those data point to come up with recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But for now, Menon sees the world as \u201cprobably mixed\u201d when it comes to automation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the same, trends point to businesses \u201cgrowing out of heritage performances to industry automation\u201d. Customers already note that shopping online is more convenient, not just for the ease but for the availability of stocks\/supplies, etc<\/em>. Nonetheless, they similarly note that online shoping can be impersonal, with no people to coordinate with when issues are encountered. The opposite can be true to those who shop in physical stores (e.g. the experience may be more personal, but convenience may be compromised due to lack of availability of stocks in physical stores). The merging of the benefits of what these two platforms can offer is, said Menon, what\u2019s ideal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, for industry automation, \u201cas algorithms get better, everybody benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even if 70% more jobs are being advertised in the last two years, there are 10% less people responding, according to a study done by Zebra Technologies Corporation. For Suresh Menon, the \u201csolution is automation.\u201d The question then is, \u201cis there automation that\u2019s there that can help you do the task fast?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1922,96,1656],"class_list":["post-54127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biz-solutions","tag-automation","tag-technology","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}