CT Operations Coming Q1 2027

Know tomorrow's staffing need - today.

CT Operations turns the scan data your team already generates through Identity and Network into predictive answers - and specific, costed recommendations, not another chart to interpret.

Founding customer program. Sales conversations for Operations start now, ahead of the Q1 2027 general release - early partners help shape which features ship first.

Why

Gut feel doesn't scale, and slotting reviews happen once a year - if that.

The data to answer these questions already exists in your scan history. It's just never been turned into an answer.

For the Warehouse Manager

What it costs your operation
  • Monday morning, 300 orders are queued. You schedule pickers on gut feel - some weeks overstaffed and paying for idle hands, some weeks understaffed and missing the cutoff.
  • Some locations feel like they're always full of "the slow stuff" - but re-slotting the warehouse is a guess, not a calculation, so it rarely happens.
  • You know who's fast and who's struggling informally - but you have no fair, data-backed way to coach or recognize it.

For the IT Manager

What actually keeps you up at night
  • Another department wants a "new BI tool" - which usually means a new data export, a new integration, a new security review.
  • CT Operations runs on the same agent and the same scan data you've already secured for Identity and Network - no new attack surface, no new vendor to vet.
  • Recommendations are generated automatically from data you already own - not another system asking for a live connection into your WMS.
How

From raw scans to a specific, costed recommendation.

1

Your scan history is already there

Every pick, route and session captured by Identity and Network becomes the training data - no separate project to collect it.

2

Models run against it automatically

ABC classification, demand forecasting, route-efficiency scoring - using whichever method actually wins on your data, not a fixed formula.

3

You get a recommendation, not a chart

"Move item X from A to B, worth €Y/month" - specific enough to act on without a workshop.

What this looks like in practice

A real example, from a live warehouse's forecast run.

Slotting readout Item 3410A0020504

Item 3410A0020504 is picked roughly 11.0 times a week (47.79/month), and the trend is rising.

Today it sits in its original home slot - a slow-zone location, well back from the pick start.

CT Operations flags it as a promotion candidate: move it to 2100A0010407, right next to the pick start.

Estimated impact: €114 a month on that single item, from reduced walking distance alone.

One item, one line in a bigger table

In this warehouse's actual forecast run, 14 flagged items like this one added up to roughly €327/month in identified savings - generated automatically from scan history, not a three-week slotting consultant engagement.

11.1%
of storage slots are "A" (fast-mover) locations
33.1%
of all picks come from those same slots
71%
of slots are slow movers, generating only 44% of picks

Example figures from a live warehouse's ABC repartition analysis in CT Operations.

Once a year

Manual slotting review

A consultant-led project, run occasionally, based on a sample of the data - and already out of date by the time it's implemented.

Continuous

CT Operations

Recommendations regenerate from live scan data, so slotting keeps pace with how your product mix actually shifts.

Diagnostics

Route efficiency, anomalies, and device health - in one place.

In one example run: 571 picking sessions analyzed, 110 flagged as inefficient. The worst case walked 2.72× the optimal distance for that route - a specific session, a specific operator, a specific fix.

  • Route efficiency vs. optimal distance, per session
  • 1,969 sessions checked automatically, 141 flagged as statistical anomalies
  • Device health ranking across the fleet
Warehouse productivity analytics dashboard - route efficiency and pick anomaly detection
Slotting intelligence

See which locations are earning their spot.

ABC classification maps your fastest-moving slots against the ones quietly eating walking distance - and tracks how that picture shifts over time.

  • Fast/middle/slow mover classification, visualized on your actual layout
  • Transition tracking - see which locations are rising or fading
  • Forecasted promotion candidates, with an estimated €/month impact

That "actual layout" is the same Digital Twin floorplan Network uses for coverage - pick activity lights up on it live, and you can scrub back to see how a day or week played out.

CT Operations ABC transition radar showing slotting movement over time
Stay ahead, without watching a screen

Proactive alerts and reports, not another dashboard to babysit.

Daily or weekly KPI email reports, plus real-time alerts the moment a threshold is crossed - configured once, per warehouse.

  • Set your own thresholds - battery, activity, efficiency
  • No need to check a dashboard - it pings you when it matters
  • Daily/weekly email reports with activity KPIs

See the full list of KPIs we track - and can alert you on - below ↓.

CT Operations proactive alert configuration
Every KPI, tracked and alertable

20 metrics across four groups - each one built to earn its keep.

Every metric below runs off your existing scan history. You set the thresholds in the portal, and each one can trigger a proactive email alert the moment it's crossed - not just a number sitting in a report nobody opens.

Where the money is

The recommendations that turn scan data directly into euros - and the anchor that keeps every euro figure honest.

Improvement plan

Tests a stock move against your own recorded picking trips before it's ever recommended.

Best improvement

A verified €/year figure with a payback window - e.g. €373/year from 3 moves, paying back in 10 days.

Slotting recommendations

Finds items sitting far from where they're actually picked. Every candidate move passes four checks: does it fit, is it legal, does it create new congestion, and does it actually save.

Best improvement

A verified € per move - refused outright when a move doesn't genuinely pay for itself.

Affinity & co-location

Spots items that get picked together on the same trip but sit stored at opposite ends of the warehouse.

Best improvement

A priced move to bring them together - vetoed if it would cost more than it saves.

How we count

The trust anchor behind every figure above: turns meters walked into euros, using a walking pace fitted from your own scans - not an assumed constant.

Best improvement

Claims nothing on its own, by design - it's how every other number here stays honest.

How your team walks and picks

Route- and operator-level diagnostics - priced wherever a real euro figure holds up, left unpriced everywhere it wouldn't.

Route efficiency

Compares every trip against the shortest possible walk through the same stops.

Best improvement

Up to roughly €5,200/year - an estimate, a ceiling, not a promise - or just as often the honest read: "routes are already near-optimal, little to gain."

Route coaching

Compares real routes against simple strategies any picker can follow, like the S-shape pattern.

Best improvement

Minutes/day recoverable per operator, surfaced as specific coaching topics - not priced in €.

Trip anomalies

Flags trips that fall far outside the floor's normal range.

Best improvement

A review worklist, not a savings figure - the job here is catching the outlier, not pricing it.

Operator performance

Scores people on the routes they were actually assigned - never on raw speed.

Best improvement

Fair, defensible coaching targets. Coaching, not surveillance - deliberately no € attached.

Operator skill groups

Groups similar picking styles together for team-level coaching.

Best improvement

Who benefits from which coaching approach - again, no € attached by design.

Batching

Detects whether trips are already being combined, and how much more combining could still save.

Best improvement

An upper bound only - turning that bound into a real number needs order IDs in the data.

Congestion

Measures time lost waiting behind colleagues in shared aisles.

Best improvement

Minutes/day, per operator - never priced in €, as a matter of policy.

Route optimizer

Given a single pick list, proposes a shorter stop order for it.

Best improvement

A shorter walk, shown as a bound - not a promise.

Shelves, slots & space

The layout side of the same picture - which slots earn their spot, and what to try before you build anything.

ABC velocity classes

Sorts every slot into fast, middle, or quiet movers.

Best improvement

The map, not the treasure - it's what feeds the Improvement plan above.

Slot quality

Grades every slot A through D, and says whether the problem is distance or height.

Best improvement

A ranked fix-list - distance problems and height problems need different fixes.

Ergonomics

Finds heavy-traffic picks sitting at awkward heights and proposes same-column level swaps.

Best improvement

Health improvements, deliberately unpriced - the small time gains that come with them ride on the Improvement plan.

Zone health

Names each zone's actual problem - crowded, overloaded, or badly arranged.

Best improvement

The right fix for that zone, instead of one generic answer for the whole floor.

Layout what-if

Tests a new walkway or cross-aisle against your own history before anyone picks up a tool.

Best improvement

Try it before you build it - savings shown as estimates, not guarantees.

Signal, scanners & staffing

The operational health metrics underneath everything else - not always priced, always worth an alert.

Wi-Fi coverage

A free, always-current signal map, built from the scanners already on the floor - the same coverage view CT Network uses.

Best improvement

Weak-signal areas located for AP placement - no time loss measured yet, and no cost implied.

Scanner fleet health

Every scan reports back on how the device itself is doing.

Best improvement

Catches a failing scanner before it dies mid-shift.

Labor forecast

Compares expected work arrival against staffing, hour by hour.

Best improvement

See the swamped morning and the quiet afternoon coming - a planning aid, deliberately with no € attached.

Frequently asked

Common questions about warehouse analytics & slotting.

How do I optimize warehouse slotting?

Classify locations by pick frequency (ABC analysis), then move fast-moving items closer to the pick start. CT Operations automates this using live scan history, flagging specific promotion candidates with an estimated €/month impact.

How do I forecast warehouse staffing needs?

Use historical order volume and actual pick-time data to estimate picker-hours for a given batch. CT Operations generates this forecast automatically from your existing scan history instead of relying on manual estimates.

How do you measure warehouse productivity?

Track pick rate, route efficiency versus optimal distance, and session anomalies per operator and per device - calculated automatically from scan data, with sessions outside the normal range flagged for review.

Become a founding customer.

Operations reaches general availability in Q1 2027 - sales conversations and early access start now. Early partners help decide which features ship first, and lock in terms before general pricing is set.

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