A Smart Workforce Planner for

Active Ants

An automated planning & AI driven forecasting tool

Active Ants was looking for a way to automate their planning and become less dependent on individual planners. That's why we created Smaplr. Smaplr is a workforce optimization software solution that offers a complete end-to-end solution from offering an accurate forecast, to generating the optimal planning and implementing this directly into your WFM. Without human intervention.

The client

Active Ants is a e-fullfilment company that works for webshops like Mr. Marvis, Bol.com and Rituals. They ship between 8.000 and 10.000 orders a day.

The question

Active Ants run a huge operation that demands careful planning of employees. Up to then, their planning process was done completely manual. That meant it was a time consuming and people-dependant task. That's why they wanted to move towards an automated planning system that could help them with their specific demands.

The solution

We created Smaplr, an automated and AI-driven planning & forecasting system that allows Active Ants to automate the whole planning process, while also easily adding their specific constraints. For instance: they work with a lot of temp workers that need to be trained, so when want them to have a buddy. With Smaplr they can add custom constraints that are specific for their business.

Now Active Ants can benefit from:

1

Efficient staffing

Smaplr ensures that you always have the right number of staff with the necessary skills to meet demand. So no more under- or overstaffing.
2

Easily combining team workers

Automatically combine temp workers with buddies that can train them.
3

Adding divergent schedules

Add a rolling schedule where employees work evening shifts one week, and day shifts the next.
4

Save on FTE's

They save on planners time and FTE's and less dependency on the planners
5

Continuity

The use of Smaplr can help a company to optimize its workforce planning, reduce the risk of errors, and maintain flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances.
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Clem ScheffelaarOperations Manager Active Ants