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UPH is only a measure of output

April 15, 2025

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. […]

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Competitive Advantage

September 16, 2024

What is a Competitive Advantage?   Doing things better than your competitor might be one way to summarise.   In warehousing, there are a number of ways to achieve a competitive advantage and often it comes down to people.   Cost to serve & Accuracy are two areas of warehouse […]

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Reduce, Reuse & Recycle

September 6, 2024

Can Vitesse help you with your recycling credentials?   Probably not in terms of the environment but we can definitely help customers to identify opportunities to reduce the number of hours being used in the warehouse.   We can identify areas of capacity which would be unidentified in the absence […]

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What does Vitesse do?

September 2, 2024

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. […]

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Culture eats Profits

August 29, 2024

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 […]

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People & Cashflow

August 20, 2024

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 […]

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Results Through People

August 13, 2024

Leadership could be described as the pursuit of results through people.   Targets are an everyday thing in logistics – achieving and exceeding serving levels are paramount as is the delivery of that service within cost parameters. Vitesse reduces direct operating expenses by measuring the efficiency and utilisation of employees. […]

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