“It is important to us that our people are treated fairly and IMI helps us to achieve this.”

It takes more effort to handle large cubic products or heavy products so it is important the task times set reflect these variances and remain fair at all times. The system uses X, Y & Z co-ordinates in all of the Poundland warehouses thereby ensuring the distances being travelled are captured and the task time set achievable. Furthermore, the system knows when an employee is stooping or stretching to reach items and ensures this is factored in to the task time set. Poundland also use the warehouse productivity system to proactively reduce travel in the warehouse by identifying where product is located with high levels of repeat visits and relocating them to reduce travel and also consider whether a different pick location was appropriate to reduce replenishment frequency as well.

As a result of IMI’s warehouse productivity system being deployed in all 4 warehouse Poundland has complete visibility of the performance of the network and can pinpoint where time is being lost and where opportunities exist to improve productivity. Taking their use of the system to another level and forming part of a long term people retention strategy, Poundland uses IMI’s system to underpin a performance related pay scheme.

The information provided by the system enables Poundland to identify the employees who have met the criteria to receive performance related pay, a forward thinking strategy from an employer who wants to live by their values.