From Workforce Planning to Hourly Performance Management: How GEODIS Americas Turned Labor Productivity into a Growth Engine

Overview

Warehouse operations depend on workforce plans. But in high-volume environments, plans rarely play out exactly as expected. Volumes fluctuate, priorities shift, and product mix evolves throughout the day. When execution drifts from plan, service performance and labor cost often follow.

Leading operations teams know success isn’t just about building a workforce plan—it’s about managing productivity and performance as conditions change.

Join Brandon Wibben, VP Workforce Planning + Productivity at GEODIS Americas, and Karl Koehler, COO of Easy Metrics, for a fireside conversation on how operations leaders connect workforce planning, productivity management, and daily execution to maintain performance in complex environments.

Drawing on real-world operational leadership, the discussion will explore how organizations move beyond static labor plans toward continuous performance management across sites, shifts, and processes.

In this session, you’ll learn how to lead operations teams:

• Strengthen the connection between workforce planning and daily operational performance
• Optimize productivity across sites, processes, and shifts with greater precision and accountability
• Identify hidden productivity gaps that impact cost and margin
• Translate operational data into measurable financial outcomes
• Maintain service performance while managing operational variability