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A Labor Management System (LMS) with Trusted Data and Defensible Standards

Built on a unified data foundation, Easy Metrics LMS goes beyond traditional labor management to deliver trusted productivity insights and dynamic, data-driven standards. Give warehouse supervisors real-time visibility into workforce performance so they can take action with confidence.

Why Traditional Labor Management Software Falls Short

Traditional labor management systems promise warehouse productivity visibility, but often fall short in practice. Data is fragmented, standards become outdated, and performance gaps remain unclear, making it difficult to trust the numbers or take meaningful action. As a result, many organizations are left relying on disconnected workforce management tools, manual data entry, and outdated labor tracking processes that lack the integrated time tracking, attendance management, and workforce scheduling capabilities needed to manage performance effectively.

Here’s how these challenges commonly show up:

Unreliable Productivity Visibility

Lack of trusted, real-time employee productivity insights and real-time labor tracking across warehouse operations.

Outdated Labor Standards

Manual standards fail to reflect workflow complexity, changing work demand, and modern workforce management processes.

Unclear Performance Gaps

Missed KPIs don’t provide root-cause clarity across processes or employees, limiting visibility into labor performance metrics and workforce productivity trends.

Risky Incentive Programs

Pay-for-performance feels subjective without accurate, defensible standards or alignment to labor laws and compliance management requirements.

What Our Labor Management System Delivers

Easy Metrics LMS replaces fragmented visibility in your warehouse with trusted, real-time insight and dynamic, data-driven standards. Built on a unified data model, it gives your team the clarity to understand performance, identify root causes, and drive consistent, measurable productivity improvement. LMS includes all the capabilities of OpsFM®, adding capabilities focused on in-facility execution and workforce performance.

Trusted Productivity Insights

Gain real-time, employee-level performance visibility to drive accountability and measurable improvement.

Average cost reduction

Dynamic Labor Standards

Leverage machine learning-driven standards that adapt to workflow complexity and ensure fair, accurate performance measurement.

Typical throughput improvement

Data-Driven Process Improvement

Identify root causes of performance gaps to optimize workflows, coach effectively, and increase sustainable productivity.

Real-time optimization

How Easy Metrics AI Agents Learn and Reason

Scale your Operations Team with AI Agents

Activate pre-built agents that investigate every warehouse facility, at every level, automatically surfacing cost drivers and root causes so your team can act instead of investigate.

Unify your data across existing WMS, TMS, and ERP systems

Get started with your WMS or ERP/WES and a time clock. We provide indirect labor tracking or ingest yours. From there, the Easy Metrics Unified Data Model unifies data from across your warehouse systems, connecting siloed data through a common nomenclature aligned to how your operation runs. This gives teams a consistent, reliable foundation for performance visibility and decision-making. Easy Metrics also integrates with payroll and HR systems to eliminate manual data entry, and reduce errors.

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Time & Attendance

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The Capabilities Behind Easy Metrics LMS

Easy Metrics LMS includes all the features of OpsFM®, plus seven additional labor management capabilities to deliver comprehensive, enterprise-wide workforce performance management.

Capture the real variables behind warehouse work—orders, lines, cases, travel, and locations—so labor standards reflect actual effort and remain fair, reasonable, and trusted, accurately representing labor hours and supporting improved workforce efficiency.

  • Time awarded by contributing workflow metrics such as orders, lines, and cases
  • Labor performance against multi-metric standards
  • Impact of travel, locations, and workflow characteristics on labor time

Generate accurate, multi-metric labor standards without traditional time studies. Reduce engineering costs while freeing your team to focus on higher-impact process optimization.

  • Analyzes operational data across multiple workflow variables
  • Applies engineered multi-metric modeling to calculate standards
  • Recalibrate standards in minutes with a click when conditions change

Analyze labor standards using metric ratios and statistical methods to understand how operational factors contribute to time, cost, and performance outcomes.

  • Decomposes labor standards into underlying metrics and labor components
  • Applies statistical analysis including standard deviation and quartiles
  • Compares cost per unit, productivity across processes

Reward employees based on objective, standards-driven KPIs to increase productivity, strengthen engagement, support retention, and attract top talent, while supporting compliance with labor laws.

  • Self-funded program through measured improvement gains and cost reductions
  • Employee, team-based, supervisor, training, and quality bonuses
  • Compliant with State reporting and overtime laws

Guide warehouse supervisors to conduct targeted, SOP-based observations that address performance gaps, reinforce best practices, and focus coaching where the greatest improvement opportunities exist.

  • Directs supervisors through scheduled or trigger-based coaching events
  • Uses customizable SOP-based observation forms for consistent evaluations
  • Stores and analyzes observation results to track performance trends over time

Track warehouse employee and process performance against defined expectations to identify gaps, reinforce accountability, and continuously improve throughput across shifts, departments, and facilities.

  • Performance versus defined labor standards
  • Workforce productivity trends across shifts, departments, and facilities
  • Units per hour (UPH) by employee and process

Determine the true shortest travel path through your facility using equipment type, one-way aisles, and access rules to ensure precise travel standards and fair time awards.

  • Maps facility layout with aisle direction, access rules, and equipment constraints
  • Calculates distance, travel time, speed, and turn duration by equipment type
  • Helps in identifying deviations from optimal paths for coaching and standard accuracy

Built-In Confidence

Easy Metrics customers are backed by our 4X ROI Guarantee.* Meet the implementation and engagement standards, and we guarantee a minimum 4X return — or we keep working until you do.

*For qualified companies based on implementation scope and engagement criteria.

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to common questions about Easy Metrics Labor Management System and how it improves labor and warehouse performance.

Traditional labor standards are often static and quickly become outdated as operations change. When standards no longer reflect reality, performance measurement becomes inaccurate, and trust begins to erode. Employees lose confidence in the system when they feel they are not being measured fairly.

Easy Metrics ensures fair and accurate performance measurement by using multi-metric labor standards that reflect the true difficulty of the work being performed. These standards account for factors such as distance traveled, number of locations, cases, and pallets.

Organizations can use labor standards derived by their own engineering team, Easy Metrics StandardOne, or a combination of both. With Easy Metrics StandardOne, teams can generate labor standards in as little as five minutes using the power of machine learning and their own operational data, significantly reducing the time and cost of traditional engineering efforts.

As processes evolve, standards can be quickly recalibrated to reflect new workflows, ensuring performance expectations are defensible and aligned with reality.

Easy Metrics StandardOne can also be used alongside manually engineered standards, and is a powerful tool to validate assumptions against actual operational data.

Easy Metrics Labor Management System (LMS) reduces labor costs by making labor performance measurable, visible, and actionable across the entire workforce. Instead of relying on observation or assumptions, organizations can see exactly where time is being spent and where it is being lost.

Cost reduction is captured in several ways. First, organizations identify and reduce indirect and missing time, which can represent a significant portion of total labor but is often untracked. By making this time visible, teams can reallocate labor to productive work and eliminate waste.

Second, accurate multi-metric labor standards ensure the right amount of labor is used for the work being performed. This prevents overstaffing, reduces excess labor, and improves output per labor hour.

Third, real-time performance visibility allows supervisors to take immediate action during the shift, rather than after the fact. This improves utilization and prevents small inefficiencies from compounding into significant cost overruns.

Finally, Easy Metrics LMS enables accountability and pay-for-performance programs that increase employee engagement. Engaged employees are more productive, have fewer absences, and produce higher quality work, all of which directly reduce labor-related costs.*

The result is not just improved productivity, but measurable reductions in labor cost driven by better utilization, reduced waste, and a more engaged workforce.

Easy Metrics LMS is designed for supervisors, frontline managers, and process improvement teams responsible for driving performance on the warehouse floor.

Supervisors can identify where time is being lost, which processes are underperforming, and how individuals are performing relative to expectations. Some issues can be addressed in the moment, while others are better addressed through post-shift review, coaching, and process improvement.

For engineers and analysts, Easy Metrics LMS provides the data needed to continuously improve processes. They can analyze performance trends, identify inefficiencies in workflows, and refine how work is performed based on actual data rather than observation or assumptions.

With clear and fair performance expectations, teams can have more productive conversations, reinforce accountability, and recognize top performers. This creates a more structured, engaged team environment with less chaos and more consistency in how work is managed.

Over time, this enables continuous improvement across both people and processes, as teams better understand expectations, refine workflows, and steadily improve.

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