Optimizing The Labor Supply Chain

By RedPrairie

Improved workforce management provides one of the most significant opportunities for reducing overall supply chain cost. Results of hundreds of implementations show companies can achieve overall labor savings of up to 30 percent using advanced workforce management solutions. The chart below defines potential savings based on the current state of your workforce management practices.

No-one doubts the wisdom of the old management truism – "You can't manage what you can't measure." However, as this paper will demonstrate, how you measure your workforce is as important as the fact you are measuring it at all. In fact, using the wrong measurements can provide a distorted view of productivity that leads to incorrect decisions which can put your company at a competitive disadvantage.