Labor Planning

Labor Planning in ProTrack enables forecasting and planning labor demand. The ability to forecast and plan labor in a warehouse will enable you to:

Deploy resources optimally
Maximize labor utilization

Accessing the Labor Planning Screen

The options in the Labor Planning screen are dependent upon the user privileges.

To access the Labor Planning screen:

Log in to ProTrack Warehouse.
Select the Labor Planning tab under the Analysis menu. The Labor Planning screen appears.

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Labor Planning screen helps you setup a plan, view the progress of work for the plan setup, and modify the plan.

Labor Planning Tabs

Tabs	Description
Plan Info	Displays the type of plan selected, the employees that are assigned to the plan, and the source of data for the labor planning process.
Plan Recap	Displays all the segments that are configurable.
Plan Progress	Displays the progress of work in every planning level and also expected end time for the work.
Employees	Displays all the assigned and released employees.

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Labor Planning Screen Sections:

Plan Info	Description
Schedule Plan	Select a date of the earliest schedule in the shift for the Start Time and select the latest schedule in the shift for the End Time.
Plan Resource	All the employees who are available for the selected plan are listed in the 'Plan Resource' section. They can also be marked absent for that plan.
Data Source	You should select the data source.

The Data Source options for calculating standard work to plan labor are:
Historical data - The number or days between the From date and To date are used for calculating Standard Work.

Plan Recap	Description
Segment Settings	Segments that are configured in Labor Planning Configuration (this is covered in a separate manual covering configuration) screen can be planned in 'Segment Settings' section in Plan Recap tab, the planned segments have a priority and employees are first assigned to a plan segment with highest priority.

Plan Progress	Description
Progress Indicator	The progress of work in a particular plan segment can be viewed in 'Progress Indicator' section of Plan Progress tab.

Employees	Description
Assigned Employees	Employees assigned to a plan segment by the process depending on the work to be done and the work remaining in that plan segment are listed in this 'Assigned Employees' section of the Employees tab.
Released Employees	Employees released from a plan segment or the employees yet to be assigned by the process depending on the work to be done and the work remaining in that plan segment are listed in this 'Released Employees' section of the Employees tab.

For Functional Concepts of Labor Planning, Refer Appendix A.

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