Every day, planners make decisions that make the difference: which shipments first, which item where, how many people when. Metrica calculates those decisions and recalculates them every day.
Built on the principles of Highly Competitive Warehouse Management and scientific research into warehouse optimization.
When and with whom?
Aligning staff, transport, docks and workload with what is coming to the warehouse in the days ahead.
Where and how?
The right items in the right locations: short travel routes, ergonomic picking and as few relocations as possible.
Where are the bottlenecks?
Heatmaps and in-depth calculations show where travel distance, congestion or backlog build up.
Via Chassé unloads 40 to 60 containers a week. Metrica distributes them across days, teams, docks and time slots, taking into account stock levels, delivery dates, transport mode and capacity.
At a glance, the planner sees which containers risk arriving late, where an item is about to run out of stock and how the workload is spread across the teams. When something changes, Metrica recalculates the plan.
“Thanks to Metrica, we now have full control over our container planning. What used to take hours in Excel now takes minutes, with fewer errors and less unnecessary cost.”
Sebastiaan Gielens, Managing Director Via Chassé
In Rack & Stack you lay out a warehouse; in Warehouse Maze you find the shortest route along a pick order. Two games of a few minutes each, after which you compare your score with the optimal solution.
The gap to the optimum often seems small: a few decimeters of lift height, a few meters of travel. But in a warehouse with thousands of picks a day, every meter counts. That is exactly the kind of trade-off Metrica calculates for you.
Jeroen van den Berg holds a PhD in warehouse algorithms, wrote Highly Competitive Warehouse Management and has guided warehouse projects for shippers and logistics service providers for thirty years. That combination of research and practice now powers Metrica.
Alongside software, we guide warehouse projects: process improvement, WMS selection, layout and robotics. We look at processes, systems and layout as a whole, aiming for a warehouse that is data-driven and ready to grow.
