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Question answered in Quora - What is the best way to measure the productivity level of an individual

Anybody that is doing picking is measured by the number of picks per hour. It doesn't matter whether they are using Voice or Wearable or handheld or even Google Glass. The goal is to pick as many as possible of course with as less errors, no mispicks, no shorts, no picking errors at all. Also there are systems that can provide realtime feedback to pickers on what their target is and how they are doing against their target.

Typically Voice is faster because the picker doesn't have to constantly keep looking at his gun or wearable, he is getting instructions through the headset and has his two hands free, which enables the maximum productivity. But also Voice requires a lot more integration, meaning it takes more time and expensive to turn on (with an exception of some systems).

The best way to start measuring the productivity of any picker is Picks/Hour. The more they pick of course without any errors, the better they are.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Puga Sankara is the co-founder of Smart Gladiator LLC. Smart Gladiator designs, builds, and delivers market-leading mobile technology consisting of Smart Gladiator Wearable Scanguns, Tablets, Mobile Tech & Apps for retailers, distributors, and 3PL service providers. So far, Smart Gladiator Wearables have been used to ship, receive, and scan more than 100 million boxes. Users love them for the lightweight, easy-to-use soft overlay keyboard, texting&video chatting ability, data collection ability etc. Puga is a supply chain technology professional with more than 17 years of experience in deploying capabilities in the logistics and supply chain domain. His prior roles involved managing complicated mission-critical programs driving revenue numbers, rolling out a multitude of capabilities involving more than a dozen systems, and managing a team of 30 to 50 personnel across multiple disciplines and departments in large corporations such as Hewlett Packard. He has deployed WMS for more than 30 distribution centers in his role as a senior manager with Manhattan Associates. He has also performed process analysis walk-throughs for more than 50 distribution centers for WMS process design and performance analysis review, optimizing processes for better productivity and visibility through the supply chain. Size of these DCs varied from 150,000 to 1.2 million SQFT. Puga Sankara has an MBA from Georgia Tech. He can be reached at puga@smartgladiator.com or visit the company at www.smartgladiator.com. Also follow him at www.pugasankara.com

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