Advancements in technology are giving us access to new methodologies that before were too burdensome for computers to work with. New “Big Data” tools allow us to process volumes of data that 10 years ago could not be handled. In the world of industrial engineering, this has given rise to a different way of calculating […]
“A box is a box!” Those were the infamous words a manager at one of our customer facilities stated to us years ago. No matter how hard we tried, we could not convince him that a box is not a box when it comes to employee performance standards. There are big boxes, small boxes, heavy […]
We are experiencing an explosion of data being created from internet-connected devices. Wearable devices are starting to gain a foothold in the market, and they can provide new insights into how work is being performed in the warehouse, manufacturing plant, or out on the road. Although wearable data by itself can provide useful information, its […]
Measuring ROI (Return on Investment) with labor management can be challenging. Many LMS providers focus solely on the performance standards (ELS) and then calculate what an improvement in those standards means financially. However, we have found that improvements in ELS often do not translate into reduced labor costs or improvements in profitability. Easy Metrics measures […]
The tight labor market and finding good people is on the top of every manager’s mind right now, so maximizing productivity with labor management is a very hot topic. However, we also need to think long term because there is one thing that is constant and that is change! There has been a lot of […]
Predictive analytics (PA) is a term used for forecasting the future by performing analytics on the data to reduce the occurrence of unwanted events and collect maximized outcomes. PA is better executed by implementing the various approaches of data mining, statistical analytics, computation, machine learning and sometimes artificial intelligence on data. Predictive analytics can recognize […]
WERC, the Warehouse Education and Research Council, is a really fantastic organization that has done a lot to help educate professionals in the distribution industry. Easy Metrics was fortunate to be able to present at a WERC conference back in 2014. Since then, our industry has gone through a massive transformation, and WERC invited us […]
