3PL

The week costed, the waves laid out and the actions drafted.

Seven days and three shifts, heads every quarter hour, and the orders, overtime and briefings it takes to stick to the plan.

Seven days, three shifts, and a plan for each one.

The week, costed by shift

Each cell is one shift: the labour hours it needs, heads at its busiest quarter hour against heads rostered, whether your own team, overtime or agency covers it, and the cost.

The Outlay 3PL week: seven days across and nights, days and afters down, each cell showing hours, heads against rostered, a cover status and cost, with the week in one line and a table by day beside it.
Plan the week. Invented data.

The waves, client by client

Every wave the WMS has released for the day, laid out by client, activity or shift, so the shape of the day is clear before the team is set against it.

The Outlay 3PL day plan, step one: the day's waves on a timeline grouped by client, each bar an activity with its volume, beside the day's labour hours and waves by client.
Plan the day, step one. Invented clients and volumes.

Heads needed every quarter hour

The waves become demand by activity through the day, set against the roster as a dashed line, with each colleague's day laid out underneath in the colour of the work they are on.

The Outlay 3PL labour plan for one day: heads needed each quarter hour stacked by activity with the permanent team as a dashed line, a tooltip at the busiest slot, and a timeline of people through the day.
Plan the day, step three. Invented data.

The list of things to do

Agency orders by supplier at their rate and notice, overtime asks, roll-call briefings and licence renewals, drafted from the plan and ticked off one at a time.

The Outlay 3PL actions list for one day: licence renewals, agency orders by supplier with hours and cost, briefings for colleagues on the move, and a shortage nobody can fill, with a progress panel and agency and overtime totals.
Do the actions. Invented suppliers and people.

The rest of the shift, from roll call to sign-off.

The Outlay 3PL roll call at midday: colleagues expected on the shift with confirm and absent buttons, the waves running with people on and needed, the moves due now, and the isometric site map.
Invented site and people.

Roll call

Who is expected on the shift that is on, where the plan has them, and the site map at the same moment.

The Outlay 3PL skills screen: a radar of trained heads against peak need by activity, a cover table, and a grid of colleagues with skill levels per activity.
Invented people.

Skills against the peak

Trained heads on shift against the peak each activity needs, and every colleague's skill levels.

The Outlay 3PL reporting screen: standard against actual hours over a rolling twelve months, the year against plan, and a bar chart of hours over or under plan by week.
Invented data.

Reporting

Standard against actual hours over a rolling year, and the weeks over or under plan.

The Outlay 3PL track screen: required, covered, rostered, agency and saving tiles above a bar chart of the week day by day, with sign-off progress beside it.
Invented data.

Track the week

What each day needs, what is signed off, and what to do before the next shift starts.

One Outlay model of work, people and cost, in three products.

One Outlay model of work, people and cost, in three products: Outlay schedules a factory, Outlay Labour plans its labour hour by hour, and Outlay 3PL plans and runs a warehouse's shifts.

  • Outlay

    Production scheduling

    Turns demand and master data into a production schedule planned against real machine and labour capacity, then costs every run live against standard.

    Visit the Outlay site

  • Outlay Labour

    Labour planning by the hour

    Turns forecast volumes into the heads each area needs through the day and sets them against the team on shift, so agency covers only what is left.

    Visit the Outlay Labour site

  • Outlay 3PL

    Warehouse shift planning

    Turns the waves your WMS releases and the team on shift into a labour plan for every shift of the week, and shows the shift live on a map of the site.

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Plan your own warehouse in Outlay 3PL.

Talk to Libra about a scoping day at one site: the activities, the shifts, and how labour is planned and rostered there today.

Talk to Libra about Outlay 3PL

Choose a site and a date, and bring the people who plan and roster labour there today.