In the race to attract top talent, the best employers come out on top. According to Forbes, Siemens, Daimler, and Bosch are among the best in Europe, praised for their flexible work options, attractive pay, and career growth opportunities. Logistics companies face unique challenges, so how can they keep up and find suitable employees? By getting creative with innovative approaches and smart software, they can reduce monotonous and physically demanding tasks and thus contribute to increasing employee satisfaction in logistics.
The immensely dynamic logistics sector has its own rules. Even as companies are constantly facing new challenges, they still have to offer continuity, quality, and the highest level of service. Skills shortages and high staff turnover remain hot topics. Because even as innovation and technological progress accelerate, employees continue to play a central role in logistics companies. Only when man and machine work hand in hand can organizations reduce staff turnover, increase productivity, and thus generate added value. Digital tools are available to help the logistics sector become an attractive employer.
Flexible work options
One of the most popular benefits for employees is flexibility. In distribution centers, this can be offered through flexible shift models, shorter working hours, and diverse tasks. Manual shift planning with spreadsheets, however, is too complex to make this flexibility happen.
Therefore, innovative, automated software solutions for workforce planning such as redPILOT PLANNER are required. This tool takes all aspects of an operation into account and creates optimized shift plans with just a few clicks.
Thus, it can support planners to make sure employees work on different tasks during the day if they have the required competences. The solution takes into account employee preferences like working times, teams, car sharing groups, etc. All while making sure the right number of operators is assigned for the forecasted demand. redPILOT’s automatic allocation provides a way to optimally schedule resources. The time required for planning is significantly reduced, allowing the planning team to plan later and better cushion fluctuations in demand. Of course, the planner can manually adapt the recommended shift plan. In that way, planning time is substantially decreased, and planners can also concentrate on other important tasks. But the real benefits are increased performance due to the optimal deployment of resources and decreased costs.
Even more flexibility can be granted together with the teamAPP. This smartphone app allows operators to view planned working days and available shifts directly on their smartphone.
The teamAPP also allows them to swap shifts and submit vacation requests independently. This flexibility gives employees a sense of control and personal responsibility and improves their work-life balance.
Career growth opportunities
If employees are deployed in areas that match their preferences and skills, they can work more efficiently and feel valued at the same time. A skills management function is therefore integrated into redPILOT PLANNER. With less time spent on planning, there is more time to focus on employee skills: Do employees have the right skills? Do more training courses need to be offered? Who of the operators can be promoted or cross-trained? Courses that need to be renewed periodically are automatically scheduled. This comprehensive overview allows you to offer more training and variety. Employees are qualified for a wide range of activities, which reduces downtime and has a positive effect on motivation.
redPILOT also enables real-time recording and analysis of employee performance. In this way, team leaders can make informed decisions based on current information and identify which resources are performing well or can be better utilized. These performance metrics can be used in performance reviews to motivate the team, plan rewards, or further training.
Software for higher employee satisfaction in logistics
In the modern logistics industry, intelligent software plays a crucial role in boosting employee satisfaction. By using advanced technologies, companies can not only increase the efficiency and accuracy of their processes but also significantly improve the working conditions for their employees. Intelligent software solutions enable seamless collaboration between man and machine, reduce monotonous and physically demanding tasks, and thus contribute to increasing employee satisfaction. These positive aspects can make the warehouse an attractive place to work and help companies position themselves as preferred employers.
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