The Future of Manufacturing, Warehousing, and Logistics

Human Resources

Explore how leveraging the Veryable solution helps HR leaders turn challenges into opportunities and maximize the potential of their workforce.

Your Priorities & Objectives

As an HR leader, your goal is to maximize the productivity and engagement of your company’s workforce while ensuring labor capacity aligns with demand. You’re responsible for maintaining a workforce that’s large enough and skilled enough to meet production and service goals—without the costs of overstaffing. At the same time, you must create a positive employee experience that drives retention, engagement, and performance. In manufacturing and distribution, where demand fluctuates daily and skilled labor is increasingly scarce, achieving this balance is a constant challenge.

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Some of the top challenges facing HR leaders include:

Labor Shortages: One of the most pressing issues facing HR today is labor availability. The manufacturing and logistics sectors continue to face persistent labor shortages, particularly among skilled operators and technicians. With nearly one in four experienced workers expected to retire within the next decade, and fewer younger workers entering the field, replacing this institutional knowledge is becoming increasingly difficult. The result is a shrinking talent pipeline that threatens both productivity and business continuity.
Turnover and Attrition: Another major challenge is turnover and retention. High turnover rates—often driven by burnout, unpredictable schedules, and limited advancement opportunities—make it harder to build a stable, experienced workforce. Recruiting new talent in this environment is both costly and time-intensive, putting even greater pressure on HR teams to retain the employees they have.
Low Employee Engagement: Frequent schedule changes, extended overtime, and the pressure to meet tight deadlines all contribute to fatigue and disengagement. When employees feel overworked or disconnected from their roles, productivity declines and attrition risk rises. In many cases, valuable skilled employees end up spending time on low-value or repetitive tasks, further eroding morale and job satisfaction.

If these challenges aren’t effectively addressed, the impact goes far beyond HR—it limits the organization’s ability to meet customer demand, control costs, and grow sustainably. Without the right tools, data visibility, and workforce strategies, HR leaders are forced to react to short-term labor problems instead of driving long-term solutions that improve retention, engagement, and performance.

The Veryable Solution

On-Demand Labor Marketplace

Managing labor capacity while maintaining engagement and avoiding burnout is one of HR’s most critical responsibilities. Veryable’s On-Demand Labor Marketplace gives you access to a flexible pool of pre-vetted, qualified operators who can step in quickly to fill labor gaps. This flexibility helps prevent overwork, sustain morale, and reduce turnover—while ensuring coverage during peak periods, special projects, or unexpected absences. Over time, repeated engagements with trusted operators create a scalable, reliable network that functions as an extension of your core workforce, allowing your teams to stay productive without compromising employee well-being.

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Workforce Management Platform

Veryable’s Workforce Management (WFM) platform consolidates data from ERP, WMS, MES, HRIS, and other systems into a single, accurate source of truth for your workforce. It automates scheduling, shift management, and time-off tracking, while giving employees greater visibility and control over their schedules—including the ability to view, swap, or request shifts directly. Real-time dashboards give HR leaders insight into attendance trends, productivity, labor costs, and engagement indicators. This visibility enables proactive, data-driven decision-making around staffing levels, performance management, and employee development.

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How They Work Together

Together, the WFM platform and On-Demand Labor Marketplace allow HR and operations teams to work in sync, balancing labor needs without straining the permanent workforce. When WFM identifies potential overload or coverage gaps, the Marketplace provides a seamless way to add capacity instantly. This integrated approach protects morale, improves retention, and ensures compliance, all while enabling HR leaders to manage labor strategically and support the company’s operational and financial goals.

What You Can Accomplish

Leveraging Veryable's On-Demand Labor Marketplace to build a flexible extension of your full-time workforce and utilizing WFM to streamline the labor planning process makes your job easier in numerous ways.

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Manage Your Workforce From One Single Tool

By integrating directly with your existing HRIS and WMS, our Workforce Management tool becomes a single source of truth. Cross-functional teams can access everything from units processed by product to employee clock-in and clock-out times—all in one centralized hub.

Quickly Find Skilled and Vetted Workers

Access thousands of pre-vetted local workers at the click of a button—so you can fill tomorrow’s needs today without weeks of recruiting or relying on staffing agencies.

Each operator’s digital resume, paired with a built-in rating and review system, gives you deeper insights than a traditional resume ever could—helping you match the right worker to the right role, faster.

Improve FTE Retention & Morale

With on-demand support, your full-time employees gain schedule predictability and relief from excessive overtime. They can take PTO without feeling like they’re putting the operation, or their coworkers, at risk.

The result: a happier, more engaged workforce that stays longer, performs better, and reduces costly turnover.

Maximize Productivity

Skilled workers often lose hours each day to non-value-added tasks. By bringing in supplemental on-demand labor, you free up their capacity to focus on high-value work, so they can accomplish more of what truly drives results and keep throughput consistently high.

live resume feature on veryable on-demand labor marketplace

Live Resume Feature

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ShiftWorks Mobile App
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Streamlined Communication with WFM
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Stories From the Real World

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What HR Leaders Are Saying

"Whenever I talk about Veryable, I talk about the key things that drew me to it, which was, first, the number of operators that are in our specific area that we can draw from. Another part is the fact that they are rated and vetted through previous people that have used them. I like the fact that just like we mentioned, If our production increases dramatically with short notice, then I can get those operators in in short notice, as well."

Chris Akins

HR Manager, United Plastics Group

"This year's overtime was approximately thirty thousand. So we're talking about almost 300% savings in relationship to where we were and really for the overtime lever alone."

Russ Iddings

Chief of Staff, ShineOn

"If we start the day at seven am, and we realize that we don't have enough labor on first shift to get parts out the door, that means we need to try to reinforce second or third shift... traditionally you don't have those opportunities to bring in talent on a same basis... we did it with Veryable the first time we tried it."

Jake Rupert

Head of HR, ADAC Automotive

There's nothing to lose. There's no risk. And that's what I have told all the other communities is there's no contracts, there's no risk. So why wouldn't you want to use Veryable if you can get people in and help fill the gaps and you don't have to burden or overwhelm your existing workforce, why wouldn't you want to do something like that?

Kathy Carney

HR Manager, Intertech Products

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August 15, 2025

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