Documentation for ProTrack Warehouse 2015.1.
The Daily Inquiry in ProTrack Warehouse is a valuable tool for performing validation of work performed; educating employees on engineered standards, ensuring delays are credited to the proper function, and to check employees for performance issues.
The Daily Inquiry screen helps you to see the current performance of an employee. In addition to providing visibility of an employee's workday, this screen provides several additional features for approving, reshuffling, changing, adding or deleting work from the employee's past or present workday.
To access the Daily Inquiry screen:
- Log in to ProTrack Warehouse.
Select Daily Inquiry under the Operations menu. The Daily Inquiry screen appears.
Fig.1 Daily Inquiry
Daily Inquiry Header Field Description
Field | Description | Equation |
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Total Hours | Total time the Employee worked that day, from SOD to EOD. |
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Time on Standard | Total time the Employee spent on Standard Direct Activities. |
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Adjusted Std. Time Earned | Total time the Employee should spend on Standard Activities with Learning Curve applied. |
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Std Time | Total time the Employee should spend on Standard Activities. |
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Delay Time | Total time spent on Delays. |
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Indirect Time | Total time spent on Indirect Activities. |
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Paid Break | Total time an Employee spent on Paid Break(s). |
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Unpaid Break | Total time an Employee spent on an Unpaid Break. |
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KVI / HLD | Total time in Standard Activities that are currently in KVI or HLD status. |
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Adjusted Performance | The comparison of the Adjusted Standard Time (which includes learning curve, | |
Baseline Performance | The comparison of the Standard Time allowed on a specific task or operation to the | |
Utilization | The comparison of Actual Time on Standard against Indirect time. | |
Effectiveness | The comparison of Delays encountered against Total Time. |
The following table represents the various statuses an assignment would be seen on the Daily Inquiry.
Abbreviation | Expansion and Description |
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ADD | Addition – An assignment pending reshuffle. |
CAL | Calculating – Standard calculation for an assignment is currently processing. |
COM | Completed – An assignment that was completed by an employee and has been fully processed. |
ERR | Error – An assignment that was completed by an employee but could not be slotted into the work schedule. |
GRP | Group – Multiple pre-downloaded assignments worked simultaneously. ProTrack Warehouse groups them together as a single work assignment. |
HLD | Hold – Assignment is placed on hold. |
KVI | Key Volume Indicator – An assignment waiting for KVI values to be entered. Example of KVI is number of pallets or number of cases. |
Search Employee
To view an employee's details in the Daily Inquiry screen, the employees can be searched for by providing the following search criteria in the Search Daily Inquiry screen:
- Schedule Date – Past date or current date
- First Name
- Last Name
- Facility Name
To search for an employee:
Click
to search an employee, the Search Daily Inquiry screen appears.Fig.2 Daily Inquiry - Initial Search
Type or select search criteria as required. Criteria fields are Schedule Date, First Name, Last Name, or Facility.
Tips
- To list the employees with First Name or Last Name starting with a particular character, type the character and the employees starting with the given character are displayed in the 'Search Results' list.
- Click and select Schedule Date to list the employees for the selected schedule date. Click Search in the Search Daily Inquiry screen. The records matching the selected criteria are listed in the 'Search Results' section of the Search Daily Inquiry screen.
Click
in the Search Daily Inquiry screen. The records matching the selected criteria are listed in the "Search Results" section of the Search Daily Inquiry.Fig.3 Daily Inquiry - Search
- You can also sort your search results in ascending or descending order by selecting any of the column header links.
Click the selected employee ID link. The weekly view, schedule, and assignment details of employee will be displayed.
Fig.4 Daily Inquiry - Detailed View of an Employe's Daily Activity
Tip
- At the top of the screen resides a graphical view of the employee's weekly schedule. The current day being viewed is always in the center, with 2 days prior on the left, and 2 days following on the right.
The yellow and dark blue bars illustrate the employee's schedules on each day. The yellow bar represents the schedule the employee was assigned to work. The blue bar represents the actual schedules the employee worked. Only days containing actual work schedules will have a blue bar. In the screenshot above, you can see that the employee was assigned to a schedule all 5 days (Wednesday through Sunday), but only worked on Wednesday and Friday.
Also contained within the bars are the Schedule start and end times:
Fig.5 Daily Inquiry - Weekly View - Schedule Start and End Times Within the Graphs
The date currently being viewed has a hyperlink. Clicking on the blue box with the white hyperlink enables you to edit the Schedule's start and end times manually.
Trip Audit Report
Trip Audit provides a detailed report of the selected assignment(s) which displays the determinants that were triggered and travel from location to location, if travel is enabled.
To view the Trip Audit Report of an assignment:
- Access the Daily Inquiry screen.
- Search and display the employee information in Daily Inquiry screen.
Select the assignment(s) you want to generate report by selecting the Select check box of the assignment(s).
Fig.6 Daily Inquiry - Select Assignment(s) for Trip Audit Report- Click to view the Report.
Select which Report Type you would like the report to appear and select
.
Fig.7 Trip Audit Report Type
Fig.8 Sample of Trip Audit Report with multiple AssignmentsTips
- Audit units displayed in the Trip Audit reference the field last mentioned in the Work Time Function located under Determinant.
- You can export the report by clicking at the top left of the screen.
Select the format output for the report from the popup menu.
Fig.9 Report Format SelectionInfo
- There are various format output types:
- Excel
- Word
- Rich Text
- Comma Separated Values
- There are various format output types:
The report must be exported before it can be printed. By clicking
, the report will be exported to PDF.Caution
- You must have a printer driver installed locally on the the computer you are trying to print from.
Work Assignment Tasks
If there are two or more tasks within a work assignment, you can view them by clicking on the link of the work assignment number.
To view the details of the tasks within an assignment:
- Access the Daily Inquiry screen.
- Search and display the employee information in Daily Inquiry screen.
The assignment is provided with a hyperlink.
Fig.10 Daily Inquiry - Select Assignment Hyperlink to Open Task DetailsWhen you click the Assignment ID link, the Task Details screen appears with the details of the task within the assignment.
Fig.11 Daily Inquiry - Task DetailsInfo
- This table displays the task lines of the selected assignment in the order in which the tasks occurred. The Non Adj Start Time and Non Adj End Time are the true start and end times that were sent from the WMS file.