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This page describes all the new functionality available in ProTrack Warehouse 7.6.  For a complete list of all modifications and bug fixes, see the PTW 7.6 Release Notes.

New Features

Updates To Existing Functionality

1. Kiosk Speed Increase
2. Grouping and Filtering by Home /
3. Employee Home Activities
4. Performance Reporting by Employees' Home Activities
5. Discipline - Separate Thresholds for Home and Non-Home Activities
6. WMS Import of Team Assignments (a.k.a. Split, Parent / Child Assignments)

Employee Home Activities

This use of assigning a "Home Activity" to each employee has been expanded to reporting and configuration of Discipline Plans.  Each employee can now have any number of standard or indirect activities assigned to them as their Home Activities.  Currently, this enables two new features:

1. Report on employees' productivity in their home activities versus their "non-home" activities.  And furthermore,
2. Configure a Discipline Plan to hold employees accountable to different performance and/or quality thresholds in their home activities and non-home activities.

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Kiosk Speed Increase

The Kiosk has undergone significant architectural “under-the-hood” changes resulting in a substantial speed increase. All methods (starting an assignment, ending an assignment, grouping assignments, placing an assignment on-hold, and resuming an assignment) have been addressed. Creation of an assignment (either via the KVI Entry screen or Kiosk) has not been enhanced in this release.

The numbering sequence to child assignments (in Split, “Team” assignments) has been updated such that the first employee to sign into an assignment gets the “-1” extension to their Assignment ID, and the second employee gets the “-2” extension. Previously, the first employee would get “-2” and the second would get “-1”, which was counter-intuitive. This functionality now matches the Child Assignment Import Assignment ID sequencing that was introduced in version 7.5.

Ad-Hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reporting now supports grouping and filtering by Home Activities / Non-Home Activities. Employees will have to be assigned to Home Activities through the Employee screen before an ad-hoc report can be created using this new filter. Along with adding the new grouping and filtering option, the Ad-Hoc Reporting engine has been modified to provide faster, more responsive report.

New Report:  Performance by Home Activities

Using the new Employee Home Activities framework, a new report has been added to Analysis > Performance / Cost Reports.  This report enables a user to view each employee's separate performances in their home activities and their non-home activities.  Four variations of this report are available:

1. Summary, 0% baseline:  groups data by Facility, Employee, and Home & Non-Home Activities
2. Detail, 0% baseline: groups data by Facility, Employee, Home & Non-Home Activities, and Activity
3. A 100% baseline version of the 0% Summary
4. A 100% baseline version of the 0% Detail

Discipline

The Discipline Engine has been enhanced to support separate performance and/or quality thresholds and minimum hour requirements for employees' home activities and non-home activities. 

WMS Import of Team (Split) Assignments

ProTrack 7.5 now supports importing child-level assignments. This brings the same Split Assignments logic (previously only available to Kiosk assignments) to imported assignments.  A new "Child Assignment" flag has been added to the list of WMS Import fields (see Data Import Configuration for an explanation on adding import fields). Any assignment having the Child Assignment flag set to "Y" will be eligible for association to a family of assignments.

The new functionality can be summarized as follows:

• Assignments for one or more employees, all having the same Assignment ID, are sent with End Times and Child Flags set to "Y". These are referred the "Child Assignments".
• Total KVI counts and standard time is calculated at the Parent Assignment level; individual standard times are then divided among the Child Assignments.
• KVI information may or may not be sent for each Child Assignment. If KVIs are sent in a Child Assignment, the KVIs are aggregated to the parent-level total.

This new functionality may be used in any team-standard activity where employees' assignment end times can be captured by the WMS, but the standard time is shared among all participants in the assignment.

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