Measuring the performance of a warehouse employee using units per hour or UPH for short, is inherently unfair.
Our experience tells us about half of the effort involved in picking orders in a conventional, manual warehouse is travel – people walking.
Consequently, travel has huge impact on the amount of units an employee will pick in any given time window.
UPH calculations don’t take in to account the number of metres being travelled.
As we change in to new seasons new SKU’s are added daily it is likely that metres needing to be covered is extended to reach these new locations.
We have identified trends in a number of our customers’ operations where the intra day swing in expected out turn, when converted in to UPH varies by as much as 20% – it is quite the swing and entirely explainable if you have the information.
If you were managing one of those operations using UPH, you’d be reviewing what looks like a poor day’s performance on one day and euphoric the next without truly understanding why.
Whilst Vitesse isn’t sold as a slotting tool, Vitesse does provide insights in to all location visits and the metres being consumed to reach them – thereby enabling the stock and operations management team to combine and decide which locations should be moved to immediately reduce the travel distances and positively impact that very shift whether it is by increasing output capacity or reducing the number of hours being used.
Containing costs in warehouses is made easier with Vitesse.
Treating employees fairly is also made easier with Vitesse.
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