Accountability systems for warehouse operations
Know who showed up, who didn't, and what got done, before the shift is over.
Shift verification, per-associate task accountability, and coverage against plan across permanent and temp labor. In one place, and current, instead of in a spreadsheet nobody trusts.
See a warehouse demoThe problem
You find out about the labor gap when it's already cost you the day.
The 6 a.m. surprise.
You planned for thirty-two. Twenty-six walked in. You find out at the start of the shift, far too late to call the agency. You spend the day short, and the orders that don't ship become tomorrow's problem on top of tomorrow's.
The associate nobody can rank.
You know your best picker and you know your worst. Everyone in between is a guess. Performance conversations run on impression, and so do the decisions about who to keep when the agency contract ends.
The KPI spreadsheet nobody believes.
Somebody rebuilds it every Monday from three exports. It's a week old by the time it's read, one of the source systems changed last month, and everyone in the room quietly discounts it.
None of this is a reporting problem. It's a timing problem. Information that arrives after the shift can't change the shift.
What it does
Built for shift-based, high-turnover labor.
Shift check-in by associate — permanent and temp, on one screen
Coverage against plan before the shift starts — headcount against plan, early enough to call the agency
Per-associate task accountability — assignments, completion, and time, without a clipboard
Live floor visibility — who's on which zone or function right now
Performance history that's actually reliable — built from what happened, not from a rebuilt spreadsheet
Temp agency accountability — who the agency sent versus who they invoiced for
How it works
5:40 a.m.
The system shows twenty-six checked in against a plan of thirty-two. You call the agency with twenty minutes of runway instead of finding out at 6:05 with none. Four more arrive by 6:30 and the day ships.
Through the shift, task completion updates by associate. Your supervisor redeploys two people off a zone that's ahead onto one that's behind, during the shift, when it changes the outcome.
At the end of the quarter the agency contract comes up and you're deciding which twelve temps to convert. You're looking at four months of completion data instead of trying to remember who seemed good in July.
Pricing
$22,000–$25,000, one time. Then $150 a year.
You own it. Run it across shifts, seasons, and headcount swings without your cost moving. That matters most in the operation that doubles its labor force for peak.
Per-seat software in a high-turnover environment is a tax on churn: you pay again for every associate the agency swaps out. And the enterprise workforce platforms charge implementation at 20–40% of the annual software cost before anyone clocks in. One fee isn't either of those. Hosting runs on your own cloud account and bills to you directly. It's a nominal amount, and it doesn't move when you double headcount for peak.
Monthly installments available.
Split the implementation fee over three, six, or twelve months, interest-free. One place to fund it from is what you stop losing to unplanned overtime in the first quarter.
Objections
- "We already have a WMS."
- Your WMS tracks inventory and orders. This tracks people. They answer different questions and they run alongside each other. This is not a WMS replacement.
- "Half my labor is temp. They turn over constantly."
- That's the case for it. Onboarding an associate takes about a minute, and because you own the system, adding two hundred people for peak costs you nothing extra.
- "It's not in this year's capital budget."
- Then run it monthly. Split across twelve months it's under $2,100 a month, it stops entirely after the first year, and it doesn't need a capital line to start.
- "Will the union have a problem with this?"
- It records shift attendance and task completion, the same things a supervisor already records, done consistently. Bring it up early and frame it as documentation that protects associates in disputes as often as it doesn't. We'll help you scope it so it stays on the right side of that line.