Labor and Productivity Measurement

Diagnosing productivity. Improving workforce performance. Eliminating waste by developing operational efficiencies.

In distribution centers and retail stores, or across your supply chain, labor management has a strong bearing on competitiveness and financial performance.

Process and productivity improvement
We can help you achieve operational excellence and results by improving process design and maximizing your utilization of resources—from labor to square footage. West Monroe Partners Company conducts a thorough and unbiased evaluation of your operations, and then delivers optimized and quantifiable processes that enable your organization to achieve and maintain peak efficiency. Whether your focus is one specific operation or your entire business process, West Monroe Partners has the keys to making everything you do work better.

Process measurement
Engineered labor standards are at the heart of our approach to labor and productivity management. West Monroe Partners' unique methodology evaluates and measures labor activities and creates standards that help you plan, track, and improve daily operations for distribution centers, retail store operations, and product delivery network. Our approach goes beyond designing engineered labor standards -- we can help you deploy the standards through comprehensive training and building incentives that ensure success.

Labor scheduling
West Monroe Partners can help you manage labor resources and create systems for scheduling and tracking within your distribution centers, retail store operations, or product delivery network. We also have a thorough process to support selection and implementation of packaged software solutions—to ensure the solution meets the needs of your unique environment.

Workforce training
We believe that it is essential to teach employees to be proficient in using preferred methods. In fact, this training is an integral part of a successful engineered labor standards program. West Monroe Partners offers both direct workforce training and “train-the-trainer” certification programs that can be tailored to suit your organization’s needs.

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