StandardsPro for Distribution is a complete engineered standards development application, enhanced with tools and processes specifically designed for the distribution sector.

To manage a workforce, the amount of time it takes to complete the work and the method to efficiently perform the work must be understood. Engineered labor standards provide this type of data.

However, accurate engineered labor standards in the distribution sector must also incorporate the demands being placed on your business – clients are placing smaller, more frequent orders and requesting more value-added services. All of this places additional demands on your workforce.

For these reasons, StandardsPro for Distribution contains tools designed specifically for the distribution sector:

• Distribution Typical Database: This database contains standards that have been developed specifically to cover distribution center operations. Using these standards helps to significantly lower development costs and reduce engineering time. The standards contained in this database have been developed using the MOST system.
• Profile Manager: This tool is used to quickly select a set of standards, customize those standards to reflect the work and physical attributes of your organization and then make the data available for use with external labor management systems (LMS). This information is developed using the following processes:
• Build organization: A hierarchical tree structure is built to represent your organization and provides the building block for the standards selection and development process.
• Validate standards: Significant standards are identified and become candidates for validation, which verifies the accuracy of the standard time.
• Equipment Travel Speed: Data for horizontal and vertical speed, acceleration, deceleration and cornering constants can be collected and input into the system. Using distances provided by the LMS, typical travel speeds are calculated and can be exported to the LMS.
• Export data: Once standards have been generated and validated and equipment travel speed has been measured, data files containing this information are generated and provided to the LMS.

• Engineered standards application: These standards form the baseline data for labor planning, budgeting and performance management. StandardsPro for Distribution supports this development with an accurate, statistically verifiable application.
• Rapid development: Since the distribution typical database already contains standards for distribution center job functions, engineering time can be spent analyzing significant standards and incorporating your data. >Ease of maintenance: The maintenance tools included with each installation allow you to quickly locate and update standards when changes occur. This keeps the standards synchronized with the actual work performed.
• Automation of MOST: StandardsPro for Distribution automates the MOST Work Measurement technique. This proven technique has become an industrial engineering standard with over 35,000 certified applicators world-wide.