West Monroe Partners LLC

FLEXdls™—Labor Management System

Many distribution-intensive organizations have ripe opportunities for improving labor utilization and efficiency—for some, by more than 30 percent.

Are you concerned about labor utilization and efficiency in your warehouse?

Are you able to set fair and clear performance expectations for your warehouse workers?

Does your warehouse management system provide adequate measurement and performance reporting capabilities?

Implementing engineered labor standards (ELS) is one of the most cost effective means of supercharging your labor utilization. With properly designed and implemented standards in place, retail and distribution organizations can decrease costs, set clear and effective performance expectations, and then effectively measure and monitor performance against those expectations.

How can you take advantage of ELS with your existing warehouse management system that you have in place today?

The answer is FLEXdls™

FLEXdls™ Labor Management System, a product of West Monroe Partners, is a software solution that harnesses your existing warehouse management system data, enabling you to analyze and improve travel times and work processes within your warehouse. Flexible and easy to integrate, it enhances any warehouse management by offering a variety of unique features:

A Formula Builder that accommodates many types of assignments.

A Flexible Element Database.

An Advanced Travel Calculation System that produces congestion delay calculations and accounts for physical factors and variable conditions.

Discrete Vehicle Information.

Version Control, so that you know who has made changes, when and why.

Customizable and flexible Performance Reports, delivered in easy-to-access and understand formats.

Customizable Access Levels to secure the system by user group.

And much more.

When it comes to engineered labor standards, we set the standard.

West Monroe Partners has applied its extensive experience in labor and productivity management—honed over several decades of work for some of North America’s largest retail and distribution organizations—to create this innovative tool that can help you diagnose productivity, improve workforce performance, and eliminate waste by creating operational efficiencies.