Labour

The agency order, the moves and the skills, on one plan.

The agency order line by line, the moves to call in time order, who can run what, and planned against worked.

From the week ahead down to who moves at half past midnight.

The agency order, line by line

Demand on each line is filled by the permanent team first, then by moves, and whatever is left becomes an agency booking matched to the skill that line needs.

The Outlay Labour assignments worksheet for one plant and shift: required hours and peak heads per line, cover split into permanent, moved and agency, and a panel of agency to book with the colleagues already assigned.
One plant's day shift, filled to a skilled agency order. Invented people and data.

Moves to call, in time order

The supervisor's list for the shift: at each time, who goes from which line to which, with cross-site moves marked so the travel time is allowed for.

The Outlay Labour moves list: times down the left, and for each time the colleagues to move with the line they leave and the line they join.
The moves for one day across the estate. Invented people.

Who can run what

Each spoke is an area, filled to the share of the window's heads that are trained on it, permanent team first and agency on top, so a skills gap shows before it becomes an agency bill.

The Outlay Labour skills view: a radar of cover by area with permanent and agency layers, headline counts of skills per head and single-skill heads, and lists of permanent and agency colleagues with their skill counts.
Skills and certificates across the estate. Invented people.

Planned against worked, a week and a year at a time.

The Outlay Labour reporting overview: week against plan, overrun for the financial year, agency spend, tool adherence and opportunity tiles above a rolling twelve-month chart of standard against actual hours.
Invented data.

Reporting

Standard against actual hours, overrun, agency spend and how often managers follow the plan, by week and by area.

The Outlay Labour dashboard for one week: hours required, share covered by the team, agency hours to order, agency cost and the saving from moving people, each site's day as a small demand curve, and a list of what needs doing.
Invented data.

The week ahead

Hours required across every site, the share the team covers once moves are counted, and the agency to order.

The Outlay Labour demand graph for one plant, stacked by line, with the permanent team as a dashed line and the short hours hatched above it.
Invented data.

One plant on its own

The same graph for a single site, with the busiest quarter hour called out and the order that would cover it.

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.

    You are on 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.

    Visit the Outlay 3PL site

See your own forecast as a labour plan.

Talk to Libra about turning your forecast, standards and skills matrix into the heads each hour needs and the agency you actually have to order.

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