Why APXR
Three questions,and our answers in public.
Smart glasses and SAP are not a difference on their own. These are the three axes where the answers can be checked before you buy, and ours are on this page rather than in a sales call.
What we can prove
Time to live, cost to live, and how it adapts.
Time to live
Days for the connector, weeks for your review
Connector configuration against your landscape typically runs in days. The pacing item is your own security review, which is why pilots start in read only shadow mode: workers use the copilot while that review runs in parallel rather than after it.
Total cost to live
Both numbers are published
A $9,999 flat pilot for 90 days, fully creditable to the first rollout, with 2 to 3 sets of glasses on loan at no charge. After that, $75 per user per month, and $65 per user per month for 201+ seats. No quote required to see either figure.
Adaptation
A threshold model, per worker
The copilot watches picks per hour, errors, and hesitation, and moves each worker between three guidance tiers when their measured rates cross the boundary. No supervisor setting, and no choice for the worker to make.
The alternatives
What else you could put on the floor.
Four categories, described as what they are. We are not going to tell you what any of them costs, how long any of them takes to deploy, or how any of them handles a wrong pick, because we do not run them and any answer we gave would be a guess dressed as a fact.
RF handheld
A handheld scanner shows the next task on its screen. The worker reads it, travels, scans to verify, and confirms, holding the device through the pick.
Voice picking
A headset reads the task aloud and the worker answers with spoken check digits. Hands and eyes stay free, and the dialogue follows a script defined for the task.
Static pick by vision
Guidance appears in a head mounted display rather than on a handheld screen. The content is defined up front and shown the same way to each worker, which is what the word static describes.
Large enterprise AR suites
Broad augmented reality products covering many industrial use cases, of which warehouse picking is one.
Ask any of them the same three questions above, and compare their answers with ours.
Independent peer reviewed research
What the published evidence says about vision picking.
This is research on the category, not on APXR Pick. It compared AR guided picking against RF scanning in a controlled test and on a live floor, and we show both numbers because they are not the same number.
+23.6%
Picks per hour in the controlled test environment.
+10%
Picks per hour in live daily operations. This is the figure APXR models on.
-47%
Search time per pick.
Epe et al., Logistics 2024, 8, 106 [PEER-REVIEWED]. Measured at a European 3PL with generic pick by vision, not APXR Pick. APXR has published no performance figures of its own; we publish our measured baseline versus APXR results when the pilot completes, regardless of outcome.
Founding Pilot
$9,999. Ninety days. Your data decides.
Three founding pilot slots. We bring the glasses, configure the SAP connector, and run baseline versus APXR measurement with success criteria agreed before signature. The fee is fully creditable to your first rollout contract. If the numbers do not convince your team, you keep the report and walk away.
Prefer email? felipe@apxr.com
- Glasses loaned at no charge
- SAP connector configured for your landscape, WM or EWM
- Read only shadow mode start, IT friendly
- Founder level support throughout
- Measured performance report, yours either way