I'm a picker on this floor. In my own time I built an app that does the picking list for me and fixes what shift leaders and the office both complain about. It replaces paper, runs on any phone, and I use it every shift.
I use this every shift because it solves my own problem. It also fixes what I keep hearing from shift leaders and the office. This isn't a quiet ask to one contact. I want to show it to anyone here who can help bring it in the right way.
Faster picks, exact shortfalls caught on the spot, no paper to carry or lose.
Orders and totals arrive already counted. Fewer calls asking where an order went.
Cleaner data, fewer mistakes, less time spent chasing what went wrong.
It's a fair question. Some of your ready gear already sits unused somewhere on this floor. Here's the honest reason it isn't running here yet, and why mine can start today.
A voice system only works when every product sits in a fixed spot with a code on the shelf. This unit still changes every week, so it can't go in yet.
Switching it on means re-slotting shelves, printing codes, handing out headsets, and training everyone. That takes time and money before the first pick, which is why it's still sitting in the box.
It was set up long ago and largely left alone. Even the office isn't sure how its data is handled or where it ends up. You can't improve what you can't see.
The first four I hear from the shift leader. The last one comes from the people working next to me. It all comes back to paper. Picker takes the paper out.
Everyone grabs the big orders, around 300 items. The 5-, 10-, 30-item ones sit on the table while the next wave arrives. The shift leader points at them, shift after shift.
Orders arrive in waves: 11, then 12, then 13. The next wave lands before the last one's done, and the shift leader can't watch fifteen people at once. A fresh wave gets picked first while an earlier one sits half-finished on someone's forklift.
First in line, first out, sent straight to the phone. No one can grab only the big orders, and no wave gets left behind. Everyone gets the next order, in the right order, and the leader doesn't have to watch fifteen people at once.
You can also allow two or three skips for a little flexibility. That's your call.
Nothing changes about how you pick. The phone replaces the paper list on the forklift. Nobody walks around staring at a screen. You mark what you took, the same as on paper, only about twice as fast.
It reads out each spot in your ear, and one click means "taken". One earbud is allowed. Another team here already picks by voice with a single earbud, so it breaks no rules.
No earbud? Just glance at the phone and tap what you took. Nothing to listen to, nothing extra to carry.
Took 10 instead of 20? Shelf empty, a zero? One tap, type the real number. The app writes down the exact amount missing, right then.
That's the count the office needs for next week's order, recorded exactly every time instead of guessed from a stack of paper.
Today everyone also fills in a paper by hand: every order, every amount, then the total. One slip makes the bonus wrong. The app records it all as you go and adds it up for you. The office sees exactly who picked what, live. Nothing to type in later, nothing to lose.
It pushes the pickers too. You watch your own total climb and see how close you are to the bonus, like a game, in real time. Watching the progress makes you want to do more.
New people still need the warehouse explained. That part doesn't go away. But the app makes starting easier: the steps and the answers to the usual questions live in one place, right on the phone. Shifts change constantly, day, evening, night, so new faces show up every week.
The how-to and the answers new people always ask for sit inside the app. They don't have to track someone down every time.
The screen shows what to do next and does the counting for them, so new people slip up less, ask less, and settle in faster.
Today it's a web app: nothing to install, runs on any phone, perfect for trying it out. To add the bigger features we move it into a full app (most of the same work carries over). That's when it can do everything a voice system does, and more, built your way:
Pick by voice for anyone with earbuds. I already run it on my own AirPods. Always optional: voice for some, a quick tap for the rest.
Not one fixed robot voice. Pick the languages and voices that fit your crew: Danish, English, Ukrainian and more.
Tuned for a real warehouse crew, better with accents and noise, and it can run on Android too, so everyone's covered, even offline.
The unit is still taking shape. Nothing's locked in yet. A bought-in system needs order before it can run; mine works in the mess and helps you bring order while you build the floor. Setting the process right now is far cheaper than retraining a settled team a year from now.
It doesn't stop here. Netto is part of a big group, with many stores and several warehouses. What we shape for your department, your process, your data, your system, can roll out to other floors later. Built once, with you, owned by Netto.
A "pilot" just means we try it on this one floor for four weeks, next to paper, before anyone commits to anything. Here's exactly how it would work:
You agree to a four-week trial on this floor. No contract, no spend, just a green light to try.
We build a simple order database so your orders drop straight into the app, in the right order. No more scanning paper.
Phones on the trucks. The app records who took what, every zero, every total, automatically.
Who picked what, shift logs and shortfalls flow back to your office, in your own system, yours to read and analyse.
Nothing gets switched off, and nothing is owed. Here's why it's safe to try, and exactly what we'd watch to know whether it's working.
I won't promise you numbers up front. I'll promise to measure them honestly.
I built this, I use it every shift, and people across the floor and in the office already want it. I'm asking for one small yes: a four-week trial that costs nothing. Let's build the right tool for this floor, together.
Let's set up the pilot