ProTrack® Warehouse Labor Management Solution

ProTrack® Warehouse Labor Management Solution

Labor expense accounts for 50 to 65% of the total cost in your distribution center. How do you reduce your operating cost while maintaining or improving the level of service both you and your customers demand?

The majority of distribution facilities have no automated and reliable way of proactively tracking associate productivity and planning their labor requirements. As a result, those facilities have a significant opportunity for improving their performance.

ProTrack Warehouse is what you need to manage your workforce performance, to maximize productivity, and cut labor costs. This state-of-the-art labor management solution will provide, among other things, calculation of discrete engineered labor standards, real-time visibility, labor planning and dynamic reporting to drive performance improvement up to 30%. Additional benefits include:

Increased utilization by 10 to 50% Improved throughput Improved quality and customer service Improved employee morale through objective communication Reduced turnover by 10 to 20% Reduced labor costs by 10 to 30%

Discrete Engineered Labor Standards:

The backbone of any good performance management program is the use of accurate expectations for objective management. ProTrack Warehouse has a "standard builder" allowing for development of discrete and dynamically self-adjusting work standards for any operation in your building.

By taking into account each order or job tasks' optimized travel paths, product handling characteristics, quantities, sku and storage characteristics, order specific requirements and progressive fatigue, there are no longer good orders or bad orders for associates. The playing field is level allowing for superior coaching and counseling opportunities. The information also serves as a great baseline for incentives.

Visibility:

Visibility is the key to informed decisions. ProTrack Warehouse provides proactive real-time notification on performance and work progress within each facility, all the way down to the micro-zone. It will allow floor managers to drill down to evaluate performance bottlenecks at the individual, zone, work cell, activity, department and facility levels, in order to proactively take action and minimize labor expense.

Real-time Labor Planning:

ProTrack Warehouse provides accurate completion times for each work area based on dynamically calculated work standards and specifically assigned employees' productivity levels, as well as company utilization targets. The ability to assign the appropriate personnel to the work is key in avoiding unnecessary costs, such as overtime situations and/or inappropriate use of temporary employees.

Dynamic Reporting:

ProTrack Warehouse offers over 100 standard reports that provide you with several levels of visibility, from high-level corporate reporting of all your facilities or a cross-section of them to detailed performance data on specific departments, employees, tasks, etc. This allows you to bring any area of your operations under the spotlight, and determine where you are meeting or exceeding expectations and where you are falling behind, and why. ProTrack Warehouse reports establish the basis for objective communication with your associates to overcome bottlenecks and attain maximum performance levels.

The main features and functions of ProTrack Warehouse include:

Executive Dashboard Corporate Reporting Manpower Planning, Optimization and Budgeting Alerting Certification Tool Learning Curves Quality Tracking XYZ Travel Calculations Personal Fatigue and Delay allowances Incentive Calculation and Tracking Disciplinary Management

ProTrack Warehouse is web based, which provides a reduced Total Cost of Ownership by facilitating installation, access and upgrades.

Drive your labor costs down by empowering your distribution center supervisors with the tool that makes a difference. With typical payback under one year, ProTrack Warehouse allows for accountability management through your organization so that you can be sure your distribution facilities' performance is optimal at all times.