Centralized insight and data-driven work with ATOSS Optimal Warehouse
Optimal workforce planning starts with data
A central steering mechanism to control personnel costs within the cockpit of your warehouse, to gain insight into over- and underutilization and to work data-driven. An additional advantage is the integration of (communication with) employment agencies, which gives you control over the total workforce.
Data-driven forecasting
The forecast within many warehouses is determined by a mix of PDF and Excel files, combined with experience and gut feeling. As a result, utilization is not in line with demand.
What would it be like to work based on historical data, trends and specific components such as packages, number of packages and/or order lines? This provides early, objective, data-driven insight into staffing needs.
Employee engagement
The lack of labor is a major challenge in today's market. It is therefore key to retain the people you have. Influencing their schedule is an important aspect of this. Give employees the tools to get involved. Giving up preferences, availability, swapping shifts and support with self-rostering are just a few examples.
Capacity Planning
Warehouses in the Netherlands are structurally understaffed. The peaks in volume are met with temporary workers. It is therefore very important that you have early insight into the number of employees you need to request. In addition to the number, the location, qualifications, start and (open) end times are also important. Data-driven capacity planning offers you long-term insight and allows you to manage over- and underutilization centrally. Want to know more?
Automatic Planning based on demand
There are three factors important to good planning. The customer, the company and the employee. Data-driven forecasting helps to predict changing customer demand. Of course, agreed SLAs must be taken into account and cut off times must be met. So, you have to be able to scale up and down dynamically.
In addition, the importance of the business comes into play. Services must be delivered at minimum cost, preferably on time in full. Here hidden costs such as balances for overtime, time for time and annual hours/flextime must be taken into account. Often, team leaders plan decentral in sperate excel files. It’s impossible to create central control when you work like this, resulting in costly overstaffing, non-compliance, and a lot of administrative burden for the most expensive people, who you also prefer to see on the work floor.
The role of the employee is becoming increasingly important - see also employee engagement. Therefore, the many factors a planner must consider is hefty. A data-driven automated solution is necessary to take into account rosters, preferences, swapped shifts and fairness. This is a modern way of being a good employer and enables you to schedule yourself.
Time Management
The final stage before paying out is time management. Correctly calculating the correct hours, including supplements for night and/or weekend shifts etc. Moreover, the calculated data are direct input for your planning - how is the annual hours standard/flexibalance doing? In addition, also crucial to stay compliant, only direct integration between planning and time management makes it possible to (pro-)actively manage the ATW, WAB and company-specific regulations.
Other topics that play an important role:
- Integration with hardware terminals
- Access control
- Qualification Management
Our approach
The expertise within contract logistics is not only reflected in the predefined best practices within the solution. It is the total approach. From the consultations in the sales phase, the technical implementation by our experienced consultants. And above all by guiding this change towards your end users. Whether it's about defining target processes, training expert users or ensuring optimal adoption among your employees - we master all aspects.
