_ Do you know who your
most efficient employee is?
Many warehouses have no idea. It’s not unusual
to lack the data to determine who’s really
pulling their weight around the workplace.
After all, to know that kind of information, you’d
have to track everything that each employee
does. Who has time for that kind of thing?
We do.
The Power of Data Besides reducing inventory discrepancies and
You’ve heard the saying, “You can’t manage what virtually eliminating picking errors, Latitude WMS
you can’t measure.” But what does this mean for focuses a spotlight on warehouse performance
your distribution business? Sure, your ERP tells through a web interface practically bursting
you that you invoiced X number of customer orders with reports, charts, and performance tracking.
last year. But how many of those orders had errors? Our Metrics module gives you the flexibility
How long did it take to pick and ship each order? to measure your warehouse operations and
manage your staff according to your standards.
The Power of PathGuide
We’re PathGuide, warehouse management Jensen Harnesses Warehouse Metrics
experts and creators of the Latitude Warehouse Jensen Distribution Services, a trusted name
Management System. For over 15 years, customers in distribution and warehousing since 1883,
have trusted our WMS to increase accuracy in implemented Latitude WMS in their distribution
receiving, putaway, picking, and shipping. center in 2010. While Jensen has always
encouraged performance efficiency,
Latitude WMS shed new light on
their workforce operations.
As Jim Hart, Vice President of Operations
explains, “The idea of metrics wasn’t
new to Jensen, but we had done
everything manually before, with
paper-based tracking. We never had
individual metrics in receiving, either,
so Latitude Metrics really exposed
both the high and low performers in
this work group. We were not able
to track this prior to Latitude.
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_Powerful Data
“Latitude Metrics has also given us more says Hart. “We can now track our workforce both
thorough information on quality issues, as a force, and as individuals. It gives people a
real sense of accountability, knowing who is up
like who is responsible for errors.”
to standard and who needs to work harder.”
Because Jensen’s culture has always valued setting
Jensen takes a unique approach in encouraging
and meeting productivity benchmarks, getting
employee productivity through weekly bonuse
accustomed to using Latitude to track and measure
incentives. Using Latitude metrics, they can
performance was a breeze. “The learning curve
now scale the bonuses to match the exact
wasn’t steep at all,” Hart explains, “We already
performance of individual employees.
had the mentality, so all we had to do was jump in
and start tracking.” Latitude’s simple user interface “In the past,” says Hart, “all employees who received
allows for quick set-up of performance standards, performance rewards were given the exact same
and instant tracking of daily warehouse tasks. bonus, but now, an employee working at 115% will
get more than a person working at 105%. We also
Multi-Dimensional Data
track errors in Metrics, and take those into account.”
Latitude WMS has both broad and deep
functionality, which offers better vision into all Jensen has harnessed the power of Latitude’s
areas of warehouse performance, with the added insight to set benchmarks for future
ability to drill down to the nitty-gritty. Latitude performance. That’s the power of data.
tracks the who, the what, and the when, giving
To find out more how you can harness the
you warehouse data in three dimensions.
power of data, call us toll-free at 888.627.9797
“Latitude has given us much more insight into both or visit us online at www.pathguide.com
warehouse productivity and quality of operations,”
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