Workforce Management Software: Taking the Pain out of Staffing Your Warehouse

Workforce Management Software - What You Need To Know That Can Help You Efficiently Staff and Meet Demand

Your workforce is one of your greatest assets today. The demand and pressure around the retention of that warehouse workforce are becoming greater.

Particularly in the last three to five years, many of our clients have seen a dramatic shift in their warehouse labor.

How do you retain these workers and what can you really find that will help?

There are many tools, platforms, and capabilities to help relieve some of that pain and pressure. How ready are you internally as an organization to provide some of these tools to your warehouse workforce?

Is Automation The Answer? Does It Offer What Managers Need?

• Wages are going up: On average, wages increased by 10% between 2013 – 2017 and that’s much higher than the inflation rate across that same time period. We’re seeing more distribution centers move back into large metropolitan areas which increase wages and can make it more difficult to staff. What affects your bottom line the most? Human capital does, and a huge portion of your budget revolves around human capital. How can you leverage software to reduce the expenses of human capital and effectively manage your workforce?
• Demand is going up: Its basic economics, supply, and demand. Over the last two years, we’ve seen an increase of about a half-million workers in the supply chain, especially the warehousing industry. Brick and mortar are disappearing but concrete and racking aren’t disappearing because people are still buying things; they’re just getting it from a warehouse instead of a store. Warehouse workers are in short supply – thus the cost goes up.
• Automation could solve a few challenges: We know automation is going to help – it will reduce the number of workers needed eventually. What automation is doing currently is making us more efficient. We’re strictly trying to keep up right now. And the effect? While automation is simplifying the jobs, it’s not replacing the workers. Automation is changing something else for us all. It’s creating a huge shift in who’s able to manage operations because a facility isn’t just humans anymore; it’s automation and the humans that work with this automation.

Download this paper and discover how the forces are impacting the warehouse workforce today, and how automation is affecting that workforce.