Warehouse optimisation you can use without a data analyst.
Your WMS dashboards don't show the full picture without hours of spreadsheet work. Fettle connects your WMS and time and attendance data, then uses AI to show daily how productively your team's time is being used, whether stock is in the right place and which orders are at risk. No systems to change, and results within weeks.
Condition readout
- Labour utilisation (systems captured)
- 42%
- attention
- Labour utilisation including off-system activities
- 65%
- improving
- Hours lost between clocking in and a first system-recorded task
- 572
- attention
Headline figures from one week of data across two systems. Baseline visibility within weeks of deployment is one of the key benefits of using Fettle.
The four questions Fettle answers
Do you know what you need to focus on today?
Every warehouse runs on four questions, already on your mind as you walk in. The answers are in your systems, but spread across reports and spreadsheets that mostly tell you about yesterday, not what needs your attention this morning.
- Will we deliver today's commitments?On time and in full
- Are we using our people effectively?Warehouse productivity
- Is the warehouse set up to work efficiently?Warehouse efficiency
- Are we making money on the work we do?3PL contract margin
Fettle connects those systems and puts today's priorities in front of you, with the evidence behind each one. What you do about them stays your call.
Set-up
What the first month looks like
We spend time on site in the first week, mapping the warehouse layout and following a day's work alongside the people who do it. You'll see your first numbers within two weeks, so we can validate them together, and have operational views configured to your warehouse by week four. Most early gains come from improving how your warehouse already runs, so nothing needs to be rebuilt or reorganised to reach them.
The first month
- Days on site in week one
- 2+
- Operational views set up for your warehouse
- Week 4
- at the latest
- Systems replaced
- 0
- it goes on top
Counted from the day we start on site.
Is Fettle right for your warehouse?
Fettle is built for warehouse operators and 3PLs, typically with 100 or more people across shifts, including agency staff, and is already live in operations like these.
Each demo is set up around how that type of warehouse runs:
We know warehouses. We just need to learn yours.
Steve Coleman, Fettle's co-founder, spent twenty-eight years on your side of the table as IT Director at Andrew Page, a parts distributor with 800,000 products in its range and most orders delivered within the hour. In all that time, he was sold software by people who needed him to teach them his warehouse first.
We don't. We arrive knowing how warehouses work, so our time goes on what makes yours different and what matters most to you: the uglies that won't stack, the pick face in the wrong place, the tote that keeps closing early and the report nobody on the floor believes.
Ask anyone else pitching you analytics whether they can say the same.
The same thinking shapes how Fettle is used. As Steve puts it: “This is sophisticated technology, but it shouldn't feel sophisticated to use. The benchmark we set ourselves was the iPhone: you shouldn't need a manual or a data analyst sitting beside you.”
Every warehouse has the same gap
The list of demands on your warehouse, from the business and its customers, grows and changes every day: more order lines, tighter cut-offs, another client, another channel. What your systems can show you only moves forward when a vendor ships a release. The gap between the two is where cost, risk and wasted effort sit, whichever system you chose. And with employment costs rising and service levels unable to slip to pay for them, that gap gets dearer every year.
Fettle works in that gap, giving you the insight to meet those demands faster and with more confidence. It connects the systems you already have, shows what needs attention today and leaves the decision with you.
There's value in your data that most people can't imagine
What it's worth depends on the warehouse, so here are three results from warehouses we've worked in and a way to work out your own.
12.5%
More output from the same people, by regrouping the pick lists rather than asking anyone to work harder
A warehouse of around 600 people we've worked in, measured before and after the change
£23,000 a week
Less spent on agency labour, from planning demand better
Agency spend in a warehouse we've worked in
Around 37%
Better pick efficiency, from grouping the pick work to cut out avoidable travel, without touching the WMS
Pick efficiency in another warehouse we've worked in
Work out what it's worth in your warehouse
Put in two numbers you already know and you get one figure back, with the working shown underneath it.
Fettle is charged per tracked operator, on the operators actually working, which comes to under one per cent of what an operator costs you.
Who provides warehouse labour analytics in the UK?
Fettle does, from Picture Perfect Data in Leeds. It reads the WMS and the other systems a UK warehouse already runs, then shows what needs attention today across on time and in full, labour utilisation, productivity and stock placement. It's decision support for warehouse operations, sitting on top of what you have rather than replacing it.
What turns up is usually work the systems couldn't see, rather than anybody falling short.
A best picker lost 24 minutes of 57 to stock that wasn't where the system said it was. None of it was recorded, so standard times alone would have marked her down
Pickers walked 950 metres to fill three cages, paying for the layout on every trip
Eight sets of brake pads sat in a full pallet location for 223 days, in the wrong place and unnoticed
These come from retail, grocery, parts distribution and third-party logistics. The same few things keep turning up across all of them: hours nobody recorded, stock sitting away from the work, pick lists that send everyone down the same aisle at once, numbers that need a caveat before anybody acts on them and plans made without the warehouse in the room.
Businesses our team has worked with
What happens in a demo
It takes about an hour and it's set up for the kind of warehouse you run, whether it buys and sells, makes and sells or runs it for somebody else.
We start from whichever of the four questions matters most to you and open on the command view, the screen that says what needs attention today, before anybody opens a dashboard. From there we go into the evidence underneath it and what it could be worth in an operation like yours.
The rate comes out at the end, once you've seen what it could save. You should leave with a fair idea of whether there's enough in your warehouse to be worth a second conversation.