The Resource Planning tool provides warehouses the ability to plan for expected workload and determine the number of resources required to complete the activity. Having visibility to expected resources enables a warehouse to accurately plan for overtime, temporary staffing, and so forth, thus optimizing resource costs.
The productivity of a warehouse is measured in terms of its efficiency, resources, and so forth. Planning aids warehouses in managing demands for their fulfillment activities. Appropriate outbound planning leads to significant cost saving as the warehouse has visibility to resource requirements well ahead of time. The warehouse can plan for on-hand shipments or for future demands predicted based on the historical data.
The planning module estimates resource requirements for all the activities performed in a warehouse such as:
The factors that affect planning are:
Depending on the available resources and constraints, you can yield results such as:
Once the constraints are revealed, you can plan to see if you can do the following to fulfill the demand: