Learn how SAP mobile workflows can automatically measure dimensions and capture text using Havensight Inventory One and Zebra’s AI-powered OCR and dimensioning capabilities.
Adding AI-Powered OCR and Parcel Dimensioning to SAP Warehouse Mobile Workflows
Many SAP customers running SAP EWM, SAP WM, or SAP IM rely on handheld barcode scanners to perform warehouse transactions such as receiving, put-away, picking, and packing. But modern SAP mobile solutions now allow key parts of these transactions to be automated with technologies such as AI-powered OCR text capture and automated dimensioning, which allow frontline operators to capture data instantly without manual entry.
In this quick blog article, we’ll explain how this is possible by combining Havensight Inventory One, a modern SAP-native mobile platform designed to simplify and accelerate SAP warehouse mobility, with Zebra’s AI-powered data capture capabilities available on modern Zebra mobile computers. Using these tools, you can design improved mobile workflows that eliminate manual text capture and parcel dimensioning steps while dramatically accelerating and error-proofing logistics processes.
Let’s jump in and look at how this works for receiving, packing, and other logistics processes.
Building Automated and Efficient SAP Mobile Workflows with Havensight Inventory One
Havensight Inventory One is a powerful platform and mobile work execution layer designed to simplify and accelerate SAP mobile workflows and transactions. Built with SAP-native technology, including SAPUI5 and tight integration with SAP ECC and S/4HANA business logic and transactions, Inventory One provides pre-built templates and design tools that allow you to quickly create intuitive apps, screens, and workflows. In turn, these enable more automated and streamlined mobile work execution for your frontline logistics teams.
Instead of developing custom SAP mobile applications from scratch, you can start with pre-built transactions that already support common logistics and inventory processes and are optimized for sleek, modern simplicity, user- friendliness, and maximum efficiency and accuracy. From there, you can easily customize screens, workflows, and logic through a configuration portal without needing any deep coding expertise. In fact, in many cases, you can build sophisticated and highly customized screens, apps, and user experiences without needing to enter or modify code.
Key capabilities of the Havensight Inventory One subscription-based platform include:
- Pre-built SAP mobile templates that accelerate development and deployment
- Touch-optimized mobile user experiences designed for frontline workers
- Simplified workflows that reduce screens, steps, and taps or button clicks
- Direct integration with SAP ECC and S/4HANA systems
- Compatibility with Zebra mobile devices and peripherals
- Offline transaction capabilities and session persistence
- Full customization of screens, logic, and validations
- Built-in AI guidance to help you optimize your workflows
- Extensible integrations with Zebra AI data capture technologies such as OCR
The result is a faster and more flexible way to mobilize SAP transactions while delivering modern, high-performance mobile experiences for warehouse and logistics teams.
In addition to these capabilities, Havensight Inventory One also includes full integration with Zebra’s automated AI- driven OCR text capture and dimensioning. Let’s take a look at how these two additional tools can help you eliminate manual text capture, data entry, and dimensioning.
Simplified workflows that
reduce screens, steps, taps and button clicks
Adding AI-Driven OCR to Receiving Workflows
While modern mobile applications can already improve efficiency and accuracy, even greater breakthroughs come when AI-driven automation is embedded directly into your workflows.
Consider a typical receiving workflow. In many operations, inbound shipments arrive with packing slips that contain the purchase order number needed to process the receipt in SAP. But, when those documents don’t include a barcode, workers have to manually locate the PO number on the paperwork and type it into their device.
However, Zebra’s on-device and AI-driven optical character recognition (OCR) automatically captures and interprets printed text from documents such as packing slips, bills of lading, or forms. It does this by using the built-in camera or scanner on a Zebra mobile computer.
This capability can be integrated into Havensight Inventory One mobile transactions, so your warehouse workers can capture critical information directly from paperwork and without typing data or scanning barcodes. You can use Inventory One to quickly design and deploy a screen where this process becomes almost entirely automated and far faster and more accurate.
A worker simply taps the camera icon on the receiving screen and takes a picture of the packing slip. The OCR engine instantly analyzes the image, identifies the purchase order number, and inserts it into the SAP receiving transaction. From there, a worker can immediately proceed with validating and receiving the order.
This approach not only speeds up transactions but also reduces the risk of data entry errors. Even when documents are crumpled or captured quickly in less-than-perfect lighting, the OCR engine still accurately identifies the relevant text and populates the correct field.
In real-world deployments, this can save roughly 30 seconds per transaction when compared to manual data entry. Across high-volume receiving environments, those seconds quickly add up to hundreds of hours of annual labor savings.
Automating Parcel Dimensioning for Faster Packing and Shipping
Another area where Havensight Inventory One and Zebra’s AI-driven automation deliver immediate value is parcel dimensioning.
Traditionally, warehouse operators measure parcels, cartons, or containers with a tape measure or with other tools. Then, they manually enter the dimensions into SAP. But this process is slow, error-prone, and interrupts the flow of packing operations.
However, specific Zebra warehouse mobile devices now include built-in automated dimensioning capabilities. For example, within a packing workflow, an operator can simply scan the barcode of a parcel, carton, or shipping container to identify it in SAP. Then, with a single tap, the Zebra device captures the length, width, and height of that item and posts the dimensions directly into the SAP system.
You can quickly and easily build out this automated workflow and customize it with Inventory One, so the entire process can be completed instantly by using the device’s built-in camera and sensors.
This eliminates multiple manual steps and provides accurate measurements in seconds. It also ensures that shipping data is captured consistently for downstream processes such as freight planning, compliance, and cost calculation.
For warehouses, logistics, and other teams that handle thousands of shipments each week, this automated dimensioning significantly reduces handling time while improving the accuracy of shipping data.
On-Device AI That Works Anywhere
A key advantage to all of this is that Zebra’s AI-powered technology runs directly on the mobile device itself. The intelligence is built into the device rather than relying on cloud processing. This on-device approach delivers several important benefits for enterprise operations.
First, there’s no dependence on cloud connectivity, which allows workers to capture and process data instantly even in environments with limited network coverage. Second, there is virtually no latency because the processing happens locally on the device. Finally, it enhances data security because sensitive operational information never needs to be transmitted to external services.
When this technology is embedded into SAP mobile apps and workflows built with Havensight Inventory One, you get a powerful combination of automation, reliability, and security—all designed in more efficient and accurate workflows.
It’s all part of the scan-first, workflow-driven, and automated mobile processes that you can enable with Havensight Inventory One and Zebra AI-driven tools.
Create Measurable Advantages in Your Operations
Faster transaction processing across receiving and packing workflows
Reduced manual data entry and fewer typing errors
Improved worker productivity and ergonomics
Greater accuracy in logistics and shipping data
More intuitive, scan-first mobile user experiences for frontline workers
Modernize How Work Gets Done in Your Warehouse
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