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Optimize Your Vehicles & Operators

Optimize the movement of the material in warehouses and distribution centers.

• Add benefit to your Warehouse Management System by managing the vehicles that move the products
• Drive more efficient unload, put-away, cross-dock, pick, pack and ship
• Remove hidden inefficiencies in material handling productivity
• Balance activity amongst operators and vehicles to eliminate underutilized material handling hours
• Dynamically assign your operators to complete tasks no matter what changes occur
• Drive a return on investment in less than 12 months

How are you measuring true vehicle and operator performance against your engineering standards?
Maintain appropriate staffing levels based on measurement and benchmarks.

• Gain unique visibility of peak asset utilization to right-size your fleet of material handling vehicles and its associated workforce.
• Eliminate paying bonuses for exceeding achievable productivity levels
• Create benchmarks by measuring total fleet productivity per task, and measure performance.
• Identify best practices and train other operators on lessons learned.
• Collect accurate measurements for your planning models.
• Eliminate congestion in problem areas.
• Measure operator productivity to balance tasks among operators or send new unplanned tasks to the next available/best operator.
• Hold vehicle operators accountable for all of their time and work activity—not just the time they are logged into WMS terminals
• Generate meaningful productivity metrics for vehicles that do not have WMS terminals
• Analyze deadhead time vs. time/distance travelled with loads and create interleaving opportunities.

Do you really need more trucks?
Allocate resources dynamically and direct operators and equipment where they are needed.

• Evaluate the usage of your vehicles against peak operation periods to gain more production out of your existing fleet, or reduce your fleet size.
• Develop performance benchmarks to evaluate how your vehicles and their operators are performing.
• Ensure that your forklifts, pallet jacks, order pickers, reach trucks, turret trucks, tow tractors, and other vehicles are utilized as effectively as possible, in the right place at the right time.
• Control vehicle access to keep your vehicles where they are assigned.
• Associate all vehicle activity to a specific operator, including real-time location and route history.
• Create groups of operators authorized to use individual vehicles or fleets of a certain type of vehicle. Information can be updated anytime and relayed to vehicles in real-time without manual intervention.
• Locate vehicles and dispatch operators quickly, in real-time, to meet changing priorities.
• Use two-way text messaging to avoid using visual signals, walkie talkies or yelling to direct work.

How can you reduce costs?
Gain a unique insight to cost saving opportunities.

• Find borrowed or misplaced vehicles in real-time and eliminate the labor costs associated with searching for equipment.
• Avoid costly delays with productivity tools that ensure your vehicles are available to move inventory.
• Reduce damage to trucks and your facility.
• Identify emerging maintenance issues before they completely disable vehicles.
• Use time-motion reports and peak utilization analyses to identify and quantify opportunities for fleet optimization and “right-sizing”.
• Create full accountability for each of your vehicles, by operators logging on and being responsible for their location, potential damage or vehicle issues.
• Reduce overtime costs with complete visibility into your vehicle and operator availability and assigning resources to meet your needs.

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