The Future of Manufacturing and Logistics

Human Resources

Explore how leveraging the Veryable solution helps HR leaders turn challenges into opportunities and maximize the potential of their workforce.

Your Priorities & Objectives

As an HR leader, you're tasked with maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of the human capital that exists within your company. You need to ensure you have enough labor to meet operational demands without overstaffing and wasting resources. You also need to make sure that workers are satisfied and engaged. In the manufacturing and distribution space with so many external factors at play, this can be exceptionally challenging.

Some of the top challenges facing HR leaders include:

  • Labor Shortages: With nearly a quarter of the skilled worker base approaching retirement age over the next decade, HR leaders must find ways to replenish the human capital needed by manufacturers and distributors. Otherwise it will be difficult to survive, much less grow in this highly competitive landscape.
  • Turnover and Attrition: Many HR departments struggle with retaining highly skilled workers, and given the already substantial labor shortages and difficulties in talent acquisition, minimizing attrition is absolutely critical. The advancing average age of the manufacturing workforce only further compounds turnover.
  • Low Employee Engagement: The constant and unpredictable shifts in demand most manufacturers and distributors experience results in inconsistent scheduling, pressure to work overtime, and the pressure not to use PTO because the facility is running behind. These are all things that hurt employee engagement and will grind employees down until they quit. Furthermore when higher skilled employees have to spend their time focusing on non-value added tasks, this also decreases engagement and increases the likelihood that they'll jump ship.

Failure to properly address these challenges can severely limit the potential success of the business, and without having the tools, resources, or time needed to do the job, these issues will only grow in magnitude.

The Veryable Solution

Veryable’s On-Demand Labor Marketplace

Relevant skills & experience, reliability, safety, and a positive attitude — as an HR leader you're looking for all these qualities in the talent you recruit. What if you could tap into a population not only equipped with these skills but also experienced in high-stakes situations? You can with Veryable, all while allowing workers the flexibility they so badly desire. Veryable offers a revolutionary approach—a marketplace connecting manufacturers with skilled and vetted Operators, a concept distinct from traditional staffing models and usual hiring techniques. Unlike staffing firms that impose rigid arrangements, Veryable provides Operators with autonomy over their terms, schedules, and workloads. This approach not only benefits manufacturers and distributors by providing operational flexibility, but it empowers Operators to take ownership of their work.

It works like this: when there’s work to be done, a manager posts the work as an opportunity that workers quickly bid on. Managers then choose which workers they would like to utilize, and the worker completes the agreed upon work and is paid the next day through Veryable. There’s no long-term commitment for the business or worker like there would be with an employee. Businesses can then add the workers they like to a sideline bench called a labor pool. The business then has a flexible extension of their workforce they can call on when necessary, and the workers maintain control of their own schedules and can find work elsewhere on the days they aren't needed.

Veryable's Workforce Management Tool (WFM)

In order to meet ever-changing demands, leaders have to be proactive and agile - using spreadsheets with siloed information won’t cut it. The result of relying on “the way things have always been done” is wasted time, inflated labor costs, and lost productivity. Workforce Management brings all your information into one place, seamlessly integrating with your Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). These integrations allow WFM to automatically create forecasts and schedules based on actual needs in real-time as well as provide your team with a comprehensive view of how each labor hour is being utilized. WFM can act as a standalone platform for your full-time employees, or it can complement and automate many of the decisions made in using Veryable's On-Demand Labor Marketplace.

Implementing this system will provide benefits such as:

  • Increased Employee Morale: WFM allows operations teams to quickly view staffing shortages and overages to fix scheduling inefficiencies proactively. By ensuring a proper headcount each day, your team won't have to take on extra responsibilities and work overtime due to scheduling errors or last minute changes.
  • Enhanced Compliance: By tracking employee hours, pay, and PTO/VTO requests, WFM provides the visibility needed to ensure compliance with labor laws and regulations.
  • Real-Time Insights: WFM enables HR leaders to view production data for an entire facility or down to the individual level in real-time to monitor performance, drive team accountability, and make data-driven decisions.

Together these systems help you manage labor in the most efficient way possible and optimize how every labor dollar is spent across your footprint.

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 your job easier in numerous ways.  

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Manage Your Workforce From One Single Tool

*By integrating directly with your existing HRIS and WMS, our Workforce Management tool creates a centralized hub for unified collaboration where cross-functional users can find data on anything from quantity of processed units by product all the way to employee clock-in and out times.

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Quickly Find Skilled and Vetted Workers

* With access to thousands of skilled and vetted local workers at the click of a button, you can find workers today to meet your operational needs tomorrow and you won't have to spend weeks going through the process of direct hiring or sourcing through a staffing agency.
* The digital resume for each operator on the platform and the nature of the rating and review system gives you more insight about a worker than a traditional resume would.

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Improve FTE Retention & Morale

* With the ability to bring in additional workers as needed, your full-time employees will have more predictability in their schedules with less overtime. They'll also be able to use their PTO without feeling like they're putting the whole facility behind and giving their coworkers more to do.

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Maximize Productivity

* If you look at a skilled workers day, you will find that they spend a good chunk of the day not performing skilled work. Bringing in supplemental on-demand labor to assist with non-value added tasks frees up capacity for these skilled workers to focus on their main objectives and get more done.

Case Studies

Stories From the Real World

Hear from other HR leaders how Veryable makes it easier to hit their goals

What HR Leaders Are Saying

"Whenever I talk about Veryable, I talk about the key things that drew me to it, which was, first, the number of operators that are in our specific area that we can draw from. Another part is the fact that they are rated and vetted through previous people that have used them. I like the fact that just like we mentioned, If our production increases dramatically with short notice, then I can get those operators in in short notice, as well."

Chris Akins

HR Manager, United Plastics Group  

"This year's overtime was approximately thirty thousand. So we're talking about almost 300% savings in relationship to where we were and really for the overtime lever alone."

Russ Iddings

Chief of Staff, ShineOn

"If we start the day at seven am, and we realize that we don't have enough labor on first shift to get parts out the door, that means we need to try to reinforce second or third shift... traditionally you don't have those opportunities to bring in talent on a same basis... we did it with Veryable the first time we tried it."

Jake Rupert

Head of HR, ADAC Automotive

There's nothing to lose. There's no risk. And that's what I have told all the other communities is there's no contracts, there's no risk. So why wouldn't you want to use Veryable if you can get people in and help fill the gaps and you don't have to burden or overwhelm your existing workforce, why wouldn't you want to do something like that?

Kathy Carney

HR Manager, Intertech Products

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