Understanding the Hour-by-Hour Board: A Lean Tool for Efficiency
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The Future of Manufacturing, Warehousing, and Logistics
Continuous Improvement
Explore how leveraging the Veryable solution helps Continuous Improvement, Operational Excellence, and Lean leaders more effectively reach their objectives
Your Priorities & Objectives
As an Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement, or Lean leader, your role is to identify, implement, and sustain strategies that drive measurable gains in efficiency, productivity, and cost performance. Every improvement you lead must translate into tangible business outcomes—whether that’s incremental revenue, reduced costs, or improved margins.
Success in this role depends on several critical focus areas:
- Strategy Development and Deployment requires building a roadmap that translates long-term business goals into actionable, measurable steps. That means assessing internal and external conditions, setting clear priorities, aligning resources, and managing change so the entire organization moves in sync.
- Project and Program Management are at the heart of transformation. Each initiative must deliver defined results, and when multiple projects run in parallel, coordination and sustainment become vital to avoid rework and maintain progress.
- Data Analytics provides the visibility needed to identify opportunities and track results. When data lives across multiple systems and timeframes, it’s difficult to act quickly. Linking that data into a real-time view enables faster, evidence-based decisions that keep improvement efforts focused and effective.
- KPI/Financial Acumen prove the value of your work. Without quantifiable results, it’s impossible to validate the impact of changes or reinvest the gains. Measurable improvements should show up on performance dashboards, in operational KPIs, and ultimately on the P&L—connecting continuous improvement directly to business success.
The Veryable Solution
On-Demand Labor Marketplace
Labor directly or indirectly impacts every aspect of operational performance—and it’s one of the largest controllable expenses on the P&L. Eliminating labor waste in real time—whether from overstaffing or underutilization—creates measurable gains in both efficiency and cost. Veryable’s On-Demand Labor Marketplace enables your teams to build a flexible labor pool that can scale up or down in real time based on actual daily demand. With this capability deployed across work centers and shifts, your operation gains up to three times greater agility. Using labor only when it’s needed helps eliminate excessive overtime during peaks and idle time during slow periods, driving a more consistent cost per unit and improved service performance.
Workforce Management Platform
Veryable’s Workforce Management (WFM) platform unifies data from ERP, WMS, MES, HRIS, and other systems into a single source of truth for workforce planning and performance. By linking labor directly to real-time production data, WFM eliminates manual scheduling and guesswork, giving Continuous Improvement leaders the insight needed to uncover inefficiencies, optimize labor allocation, and boost throughput. Automated scheduling aligns staffing with true demand, reducing waste while maintaining performance and cost targets. Integrated access to the On-Demand Labor Marketplace adds instant scalability during demand spikes or disruptions without overburdening core staff. Real-time dashboards reveal key metrics like throughput, labor cost per unit, and productivity, enabling leaders to identify bottlenecks, benchmark results, and sustain improvements across sites. Together, these tools turn labor management into a repeatable, data-driven process that delivers measurable business results.
What These Tools Enable:
- Strategy Development and Deployment: Veryable’s operations experts partner with your team to design and execute improvement strategies, aligning resources and technology with your business goals.
- Program and Project Management: Leverage our experience across manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution to implement proven solutions, manage progress, and sustain results.
- Data Analytics: Consolidate data across systems with customizable dashboards and real-time reporting for actionable insights that drive better decisions and faster execution.
- KPI / Financial Acumen: Track improvements with precision and ensure results flow through to the bottom line by validating savings with your operations and finance teams.
- Lean Center of Excellence & Thought Leadership Blog: Access best practices, tools, and insights from Veryable’s Lean Practitioners, Six Sigma experts, and industry leaders through our Lean Center of Excellence and thought leadership blog categories like: Productivity, Service Metrics, Lean Center of Excellence, "Creativity Over Capital", "Point of View", Operational Excellence, and Cost Reduction.
What You Can Accomplish
Leveraging Veryable's On-Demand Labor Marketplace to build a flexible extension of your full-time workforce and utilizing WFM to streamline the labor planning process makes it easier to reach your objectives in numerous ways.
Click the button below to explore our value estimation calculator and see the positive bottom-line impacts your business can achieve.
Address Production Outliers
Bringing in supplemental on-demand labor gives your team the flexibility to quickly address exceptions that slow down operations. With added support, you can:
-->Tackle stranded or aged orders before they escalate
-->Break up work-in-process bubbles that stall throughput
-->Recover faster from quality issues and material delays
-->Eliminate past-due backlog to keep commitments on track
Increase Throughput & Productivity
By adding support in bottleneck areas, you free skilled workers from non-critical tasks, so they can focus on the high-value work that truly drives output. This keeps production flowing smoothly, increases overall throughput, and ensures your most valuable talent is applied where it matters most.
Manage Demand Variation
Flexing labor capacity daily helps you protect short lead times and service levels, even as demand shifts. With unlimited flexible capacity, you can take on orders that would have once strained resources, without overloading your core team.
And because you can respond in real time, you no longer have to staff to historical averages and hope for the best—you can match labor precisely to actual demand.
Lower Operating Costs
Daily labor right-sizing eliminates two of the biggest forms of waste: overtime during peak demand and idle time during slow periods. By flexing headcount with on-demand capacity, you align labor directly to value-added work instead of carrying excess cost.
This creates a leaner cost structure, stabilizes margins, and frees up resources that can be reinvested into further process improvements, while also enabling more competitive pricing in the market.
Chart GPT: Smarter Insights, Zero Spreadsheets
Understand your operations instantly—just ask a question and get a chart. Toggle between views, export your data, and give quick feedback to refine results. This helps you spot trends faster, save hours on manual reporting, and make confident, data-driven decisions in real time.
Customized Reporting: Complete Operational Visibility
WFM lets you monitor labor and production KPIs like cost per unit, UPH, and scheduled vs. actual hours, all in one streamlined view. These real-time insights help you spot trends, pinpoint inefficiencies, and drive continuous improvement.
Value Summary: Enabling Smarter ROI Tracking
Within the Performance tab on your Veryable business portal, the Value Estimator calculates the potential bottom line impact of on-demand labor using real-time performance data and key operational metrics. Track your bottom-line gains as they happen to guide smarter decisions, boost efficiency, and control costs.
Platform Features
Tools & Features That Help You Get The Job Done
Case Studies
Stories From the Real World
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Resources
Our Point of View
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POV: Lean Leader - Any Part, Any Quantity, Anytime.
Adding integrated tools like Workforce management (WFM) and the Standard Work module allow you to optimize your operation no matter what comes your way
Sustaining the 6S Method: Tips for Long-Term Success
In this blog post, we will delve into the importance of sustaining the 6S method and provide you with tips to maintain the gains achieved
Getting Started With On-Demand Labor
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