Productivity Management

The productivity management enables you to model warehouse activities and measure productivity of the workers performing their activities.

Activities are of different kinds. Based on the nature of each activity, different variables are captured to measure productivity. For example, the number of cases moved and number of locations visited. For each variable or dimension, a SAM (standard allowable minutes) is associated. The total minutes that may be credited for each task is a function of the variables and the SAM associated with them. A warehouse analyzes the time involved in doing each small part of an activity to define the SAM for each dimension.

The variables are a characteristic of a task type. Some task types require only a few of the variables. For example, the variable "number of locations visited" is applicable only to picking or replenishment tasks and not applicable to packing or manifesting process.

The application enables you to configure a list of variables that are applicable to a specific activity and define SAM to each variable in an activity. SAM is defined against a task type for determining the efficiency of a user. For example, a warehouse allows defined minutes to be at a location, time to pick a case and the time taken if aisles are being traversed.

The application issues time credits to users based on the actual tasks performed and SAM defined for each activity. This information enables you to perform the following worker-based activities: