With labour shortages endemic across the logistics industry, it makes sense to use software to optimise the workforce available to you. The teamAPP from redPILOT manages labour to relieve your shift headaches.
Planning shift cover can be one of the most time-consuming elements of running a warehouse. The teamAPP from redPILOT is a smartphone app that assigns employees to shifts based on labour needs, employee availability and required skills, as well as any customer-specific rules.
The app allows employees to enter their availability, request holiday, record absence and check their shifts at any time and location. They can also request shift swaps, with all available and qualified colleagues being automatically messaged. If someone accepts the shift change without compromising performance or adding cost, the supervisor does not even need to approve it. In addition, teamApp automatically takes care of job rotation, alternating the assignment of strenuous tasks to help ensure all employees remain fit for work.
Empowering warehouse staff in this way enhances their job satisfaction, leading to better employee retention. Using teamAPP also helps reduce reliance on temporary workers, further reducing costs. The software can even be used to gamify your warehouse operations, enhancing employee engagement and motivation.
Optimise your warehouse with AI
The teamAPP is just one part of redPILOT’s comprehensive Operational Excellence Solution for warehouse optimisation. This harnesses the power of AI to help you use available resources (such as systems, personnel, energy and materials) to optimise warehouse performance – all day, every day – in the face of constantly changing factors such as order structure, delivery dates and labour availability. The redPILOT solution can either be hosted as a cloud service or provided into your existing hardware infrastructure. All system experience is then used for machine learning, enabling you to make data-driven decisions and increase overall performance.
Detect bottlenecks
With redPILOT, you gain real-time intelligence in one place. The software tracks all warehouse activities in real-time and this data is visualised in a performance dashboard. A specially developed algorithm detects both bottlenecks and excess capacity, with machine learning steadily and automatically improving your logistics operation to minimise downtime and exploit any hidden potential.
Customers enjoying the benefits of redPILOT include fashion and homeware retailer, M&S; grocery retailers, Edeka and Spar; Swiss Army Knife manufacturer, Victorinox; and Swedish 3PL, Nowaste Logistics.
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