Accurate, employee-focused performance management

A labor management system (LMS) or labor management software (LMS) is a software application that helps organizations manage their warehouse labor and robotics performance. It can be used to track network, facility, shift, and department level hours and performance. LMS solutions provide tools for measuring employee performance, manager performance, observing employees, optimizing labor costs, and analyzing warehouse data.

Typical warehouse labor management system (lms) benefits:

Performance management: Enables supervisors and managers to track performance, identify coaching opportunities, and measure the effectiveness of feedback.

Employee Engagement: Enables operations teams to ensure employees are receiving regular feedback, measure retention, and identify managers who are coaching their teams.

Labor cost tracking: Track labor hours and labors costs by facility, shift, department, area, and/or client. Automatically assign hours based on the work completed.

Process Optimization: Measure discrete processes using labor standards. Use observations to coach to preferred work methods (PWM) and standard operating procedures (SOPs)

Labor Standards: Develop, maintain, and calibrate labor standards based on historical performance. Use warehouse trends to provide detailed coaching plans and reward high performers.

Forecasting and Planning: Use historical data to train machine learning (ml) models to forecast quantity and workmix. Use these insights to plan more effectively.

A Labor Management System (LMS) ingests data from your time clock and warehouse management system (WMS) in real-time to provide actionable insights to your supervisors, facility leaders, and engineers to increase productivity, reduce costs, and increase employee engagement.

Some labor management systems (LMS) will also track time and attendance. We find that time clocks or other workforce management software are best suited for this reporting.

A Labor Management System (LMS) ingests data from your time clock and warehouse management system (WMS). Typically, this data is sent over SFTP or API.

There are two primary costs associated with a labor management system (LMS): implementation and licensing costs. Traditionally, labor management systems (LMS) were expensive to implement and maintain their configuration, often requiring dedicated staff to manage.

Takt has low per facility implementation fees and usage based pricing that aligns to the size of your team. Because there is no code required, configuration can be easily maintained by your engineering team. Takt’s Customer Success team is your partner through the entire journey so that you can focus on running your business and running an LMS.

Traditional labor management systems (LMS) take 2 - 8 months to implement. Takt can be implemented in 4 weeks per facility with follow-on facilities accelerating.

Labor is the largest cost within a warehouse or distribution center. Implementing new automation, robotics, or warehouse management systems can only improve performance so much without optimizing your labor.

Takt is the best labor management system (LMS) for managing your existing labor, implementing and measuring process improvements, gaining visibility across robotics and labor, and engaging your team.

3PLs and retail brands often need to organize their data by client or brand. Traditional labor management systems (LMS) are not well-suited for handling multiple clients or multiple brands within a single warehouse. Takt makes it easy to measure hours, costs, and performance by client and/or brand within a single warehouse.

A warehouse management system (WMS) is a software application that helps organizations manage their warehouse operations. It can be used to track inventory, manage orders, and optimize the flow of goods in and out of the warehouse. A labor management system (LMS) is a software application that helps organizations manage their workforce, robotics, and productivity.

Many warehouse management systems (WMS) have a bolt-on labor management system (LMS). Oftentimes these bolt-on LMS systems lack features, are hard to use, and expensive to implement. As a result, they aren’t used by operations teams and don’t lead to productivity and cost savings.