My job requires its employee's to work 9 - 12 hours doing a mix of intensive cardio and light to heavy lifting based on two time frames, one timer runs based on the time you punch in and out for the day while the other starts and stops for each trip that you complete and both are combined to determine your productivity for the day.
How it works is lets say your shift has a gross of 88,637 cases to ship out to 48 stores within a 4hr driving distance from your distribution center. Each trailer will hold 18 standard pallets, each pallet varies in weight from 500lbs (+/-) to 3,000lbs (+/-). Most pallets are 68 - 69.5 cubic feet in volume and will vary in height based on the dimensions of the cases that the manufacturer and the pickers ability to stack boxes. A time frame is setup based on the vlume and the number of pickers on the shift and based on the above gross and the amount of pickers a time of 10 hours is set for the completion of picking above said amount of cases, this means that the last trip must be asigned by the 10 hour time frame, a trip is a pallet that is to be filled based on one part of an order per store though with some stores a trip will encompass two pallets.
Each trip time varies based on the amount of product to be pulled, you may have one trip that is 70 cubic foot that gets a time frame of 30 mins while another of the same size or within .5 cubic foot will be 17 mins. The rather large variation will come from the trip requiring large numbers of the same product such as 30 cases of pillsbury frozen french bread loafs, these cases each wiegh about 28lbs and most pickers can grab two at a time.
I was curious to figure out the average amount of product I move in a given weekend so after taking the average weight from all the trips I pulled in a day and the number of trips I pulled I was able to figure out that in three days I move by hand I move on average 100,000lbs (+/-). By no means is this alot for me, I used to work for a construction supply company years ago and would have to move pallets of shingles and sometimes would move upwards of 250,000lbs of shingles and siding in a 5 day week. Some of the guys I work with move on average 180,000lbs or more within the three days though.
How it works is lets say your shift has a gross of 88,637 cases to ship out to 48 stores within a 4hr driving distance from your distribution center. Each trailer will hold 18 standard pallets, each pallet varies in weight from 500lbs (+/-) to 3,000lbs (+/-). Most pallets are 68 - 69.5 cubic feet in volume and will vary in height based on the dimensions of the cases that the manufacturer and the pickers ability to stack boxes. A time frame is setup based on the vlume and the number of pickers on the shift and based on the above gross and the amount of pickers a time of 10 hours is set for the completion of picking above said amount of cases, this means that the last trip must be asigned by the 10 hour time frame, a trip is a pallet that is to be filled based on one part of an order per store though with some stores a trip will encompass two pallets.
Each trip time varies based on the amount of product to be pulled, you may have one trip that is 70 cubic foot that gets a time frame of 30 mins while another of the same size or within .5 cubic foot will be 17 mins. The rather large variation will come from the trip requiring large numbers of the same product such as 30 cases of pillsbury frozen french bread loafs, these cases each wiegh about 28lbs and most pickers can grab two at a time.
I was curious to figure out the average amount of product I move in a given weekend so after taking the average weight from all the trips I pulled in a day and the number of trips I pulled I was able to figure out that in three days I move by hand I move on average 100,000lbs (+/-). By no means is this alot for me, I used to work for a construction supply company years ago and would have to move pallets of shingles and sometimes would move upwards of 250,000lbs of shingles and siding in a 5 day week. Some of the guys I work with move on average 180,000lbs or more within the three days though.