Workers would go into the warehouse with a clip-board and make notations. Then they would hand it off to a data entry worker who inputted notations into the computer.

All boxes are printed with a QR code. Workers just walk down the warehouse aisles with their smartphone and scan everything, data is automatically added into the system. A job that used to take 3 hours per warehouse now takes 25 minutes.

Man Hours Saved: 238 per warehouse per year. 11,916 company-wide per year.

Data entry specialist no longer needed, salary savings of $45,000 per year.

Total savings: $296,000 per year.

Worker would manually create back-order if there was insufficient inventory. Process is slow and created errors.

Back order is automatically created when boxes are scanned if there is insufficient inventory. Process is fast with no errors.

Man Hours Saved: 2440 per year

Error costs saved: $15,050 per year

Total savings: $21,210 per year

Discrepancies between physical inventory count and posted inventory count rely on physical “pen and paper” paper-work, causing errors and employee theft, as workers get tired and forget to write in an extra “0” or they decide to steal something and cover up their theft.

It is impossible for the computer to make an error in the count or allow a thief to cover up the numbers so long as the phone is properly held up while scanning.

Error Costs Saved: $105,000 per year

Employee Theft Saved:$315,000 per year

Total savings: $420,000 per year

Total savings: $737,210 per year

When a field inspector was sick, they would have to wait until the morning to call in to the home office. Since most inspections start at 9 AM, and the home office did not open until 9 AM, inspections always had to be delayed or rescheduled. The operator would have to manually check who was closest to replace the sick inspector and if they were available or not.

Field inspector can issue a “sick day notification” in the system at night, as soon as they start to feel sick. The system automatically detects the field inspector physically closest to them, and if they are available the next day, and creates an alert, requesting assistance. Upon acceptance, the app immediately begins clocking overtime hours and prompts the relief inspector to get to the job! The result: 45% less inspections delayed or rescheduled per year.

Inspectors manually checked off needed items during inspection on paper. Then they input the inspection results into their laptops at the end of the day, or the next day.

Inspectors now scan all inspection areas with their phone, and it automatically inputs whether or not certain areas pass or fail. Results are posted automatically into the system.

Man Hours Saved: $3040 per year

Total savings: $76,000 per year

Employees would arrive to inspections late and lie about their arrival time. Since there is no incentive for the railyard manager to “rat out” a late inspector (they are from different companies,) the home office would never know if an inspector arrived late or left early. Consequently, inspectors would constantly steal time, by saying they arrived on time when they were late, or by saying an inspection took longer than it did.

The app only allows inspectors to clock in to work when they are physically at the inspection site by using GPS map services.

Time Theft Prevented: $2,187,500 per year

Problem areas had to be calculated manually, and were submitted in quarterly reviews to the board of the railroad company.

Problem areas were generated instantly on a map that was accessible by the railroad company at all times, the company could quickly take steps to see what regions were struggling and fix the issue.

Total savings: $2.3 million per year

Each time a new building was assigned, company had to invest in $25,000 worth of infrastructure, to set up digital checkpoints for the guard to walk.

Each time a new building is assigned, company uses QR code stickers to perform checkpoints.

Savings: $550,000 per year

Vehicle patrols had no accountability whatsoever, unlike foot patrols who had to check in at checkpoints. Long coffee breaks, drive in fast food breaks, and general laziness was the norm.

App created GPS map tracking for accountability. Manager’s map showed where all the vehicles were supposed to be given the routes assigned, and showed whether someone was ahead of schedule or behind schedule.

Vehicles would make route mistakes often.

Route mistakes automatically alerted and corrected. No more errors.

Anytime there was a security breach, the system would not differentiate between criminal trespasses and innocent ones, such as vagrants, drunks, or teenagers. Consequently the system used to send out an alert for all local units to respond, wasting manhours on harmless intrusions.

The security guard chooses the type of intrusion, harmless or malicious, and the system responds in kind.

Man Hours Saved: $6840 per year

Total Savings: $95,760 per year

Low and high risk buildings were identified on a yearly basis, with staff shifts happening every year. However, spates of trespassing tend to happen in weekly or monthly bursts, so by the time the company reassigned its staff it might be too late. The reassignment process was costly and manual.

Low and high risk buildings are calculated in real time, with staff being automatically reassigned to high danger areas.

Man Hours Saved: $1,200 per year

Total Savings: $16,800 per year

Total savings: $662,560 per year

Packages were not linked to specific drivers in the system. In the morning, the warehouse would just put packages onto the trucks willy nilly. This led to incompetent drivers losing packages and theft since there was no accountability.

Each package is scanned linking it to a driver.

Loss and theft reduced by: $50,000 per year

Drivers had a full day to make their deliveries. Some drivers would slack off and say they are stuck in traffic, etc. Others would finish early and take the rest of the day off, leading to time theft.

GPS tracking tracks all drivers at all times. If someone is performing slower than expected, manager gets a push notification. Delivery times are counted and driver’s performance is posted to their performance review document. Bad drivers can be replaced. Good ones rewarded.

Time theft stopped: 260 hours a year

Total savings: $4680 per year

Drivers would accidentally deliver to the wrong location or miss stops on their route, causing them to have to turn around and waste time.

App automatically notifies drivers if they miss a stop or are going the wrong way.

Wasted time prevented: 290 hours a year

Total savings: $5220 a year.

Total savings: $59,900 per year