Measure warehouse throughput

Throughput is how much work your warehouse completes — receipts, picks, packs, shipments per day. It tells you whether the floor is keeping up.

What it measures

• Receipts — shipments and units taken in
• Picks — order lines and units picked
• Packs — orders boxed
• Shipments — orders out the door

Each can be read per day, per shift, or per person.

Run it

Open Reports → Throughput, or build a picture from receipt history and shipment history over a date range.

What it tells you

• Capacity — how much the floor can clear in a day
• Bottlenecks — if picks outpace packs day after day, packing is the constraint
• Staffing — when throughput needs consistently exceed output, it’s time to add people or stations
• Peaks — which days and seasons run hot, so you can plan labor

Pair it with queues

Throughput is the output; the To pick and To pack queue sizes are the backlog. Output steady but queues growing means demand is simply outrunning capacity.

Tip: track throughput against your order intake. As long as daily output keeps pace with daily orders, queue spikes are temporary — when it doesn’t, they compound.