Warehouse Efficiency
UPH is only a measure of output
Units per hour, or UPH, is a metric found in almost all warehouses. It’s a simple calculation of hours used divided by volume moved – it is a measure of output. UPH works as a target for employees in a production environment where there’s a standard task and no variables. Warehouses every day carry out […]
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Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiency
Firms starting their financial year in January will be close to finishing their budgets. Lots of year on year comparisons with bridges and waterfalls showing the areas of variance – leading to challenge and sometime begrudging acceptance of some realities. Operations cost budgets will likely show increases relating to minimum wage increases and annual pay […]
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What does Vitesse do?
Vitesse is cloud based software aimed at making warehouses more efficient. Our customers can use the information from Vitesse to serve their customers faster because more capacity has been created. Our customers can choose to reduce costs by trimming overtime or agency spend or reassigning core employees to other duties. Our customers could combine both […]
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Culture eats Profits
Vitesse is easy to use and fast to deploy. Vitesse can integrate with any WMS, WCS and T&A system – simultaneously. Vitesse is a future proofed solution – if you are replacing your WMS, WCS and T&A we can simply hook up to the new variant in no time. Vitesse measures the efficiency and utilisation […]
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People & Cashflow
Warehouses are people intensive operations. The more activities taking place and volumes being handled determine the number of people needed. Forecasts are usually a decent guide but largely inaccurate meaning capacity, hours in the warehouse with no demand for them, is trapped and a silent cost to the business. The other side of […]
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