Labor planning is a vital part of understanding and predicting the current and future demands on your operations and how those demands will affect your logistics provider’s workforce. Accurate planning allows your provider to make informed, data-driven decisions on hiring, retaining, upskilling, and managing employees. 

Labor planning matters because a strong, skilled, rightsized workforce is foundational to running healthy logistics operations and providing best-in-class supply chain services to you. Key benefits include:

• Deep understanding of your current business operations and workforce deployment.
• Early awareness of your changing needs, and the labor resources required to meet them.
• Shortened lead times on the hiring and training of temporary and permanent employees.
• Alignment of workforce capabilities with your projected future demand.
• Meeting your requirements and SLAs throughout regular and peak seasons. 
• Rapid adaptation to changing circumstances and external factors. 
• Reduced labor workforce costs that generate savings and value for you.

At GEODIS, we’re going beyond standard labor planning and embracing a more dynamic, AI-driven labor forecasting model. As your needs grow, we’ll stay ahead, ensuring that we can meet your increasing demand.

Our new approach to labor planning makes us more agile and able to optimize our workforce based on client needs, operational factors, seasonal changes, and other areas. We bring together the latest in data analytics, AI and forecasting algorithms, HR best practices, demand planning, and workforce management.

Our findings have been very positive. We can increase shipping volumes by up to 15%, while reducing labor costs by up to 10%. Even better, we provide advanced labor forecasting at no additional cost to you as a client.

Download our labor forecasting white paper today and learn how strong, forward-looking labor planning can save you time, money, and effort in the warehouse.