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Method, not just a number
Copy the method. Every case is anonymised and rebuilt from general principles.
Worked example
A general merchandise warehouse books 80 vehicles per day into an 8-dock receiving hall over a 10-hour window. Average on-dock turn is 45 minutes. This is an anonymised planning case, not a named site.
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An outbound hall processes 850 orders per day. Packing is 2.4 minutes per order. Despatch/loading is 1.5 minutes. Five packers and four loaders are rostered on a 7.5-hour shift at 85% planned utilisation.
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A case-pick operation has a plan of 1,000 cases per day. Observed pick time is 3.00 minutes per case. Six pickers work 7.5 hours at 85% planned utilisation.
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The same 80-vehicle inbound hall, now looked at as a processing system rather than a door-count problem. Process time is the 45-minute turn. Eight docks are the servers.
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The picking case again, now with absence, indirect labour and overtime treated as separate levers instead of being buried in one utilisation factor.
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