How to Fight Staffing Shortages
TakeYours helps plants hire less experienced staff and ramp them fast with guided picking, intensive assembly, instructions, and Fastomats.
Russian poultry farms face acute labor shortages that risk missed shipments and canceled orders, Kommersant reports. The same problem hits most industries with stable or growing demand that cannot scale output quickly — mainly due to labor-market shortages.
The core issue is less about low pay — plants already offer above-market rates — and more about candidate readiness and experience. Employers want new hires who already know the job; HR often blames the market and proposes higher wages, paid relocation, overlooking red flags, or excessive concessions. Production leaders hear this daily. But is it necessary?
We approach the problem differently: hire less experienced but motivated candidates and adapt them quickly with TakeYours technology.
An intuitive order-picking acceleration system (https://youtu.be/j8Izjh4b_uk) lets a new picker start on day one without knowing the assortment or locations. Gamified picking also attracts younger candidates who are hard to draw into traditional production work.
When foreign brands exit, demand can surge and plants can scale production — but order picking becomes the bottleneck. For intensive picking we added functionality (https://youtu.be/h3hfY_jS_q0) suited to narrow assortments (about 150–200 SKUs) with huge order streams from many points (e.g., bakeries). Staff no longer need to memorize locations or even names — names appear on cell screens. Dynamic cell assignment also lets you reconfigure the warehouse freely.
Where finished goods are assembled from parts (furniture, windows, doors), food (fast food), or raw materials (pharma, coatings, chemicals, cleaning agents), shortages bite harder because sequence and component accuracy matter. Our instruction-based assembly (https://youtu.be/sx-7lCmFK5Q) adapts people to the process quickly.
Order issue is often another bottleneck. Hiring customer-facing staff is hard — interviews rarely predict who will stay polite. Our Fastomat (https://youtu.be/XKkmxM73BA0) shortens queues and removes unnecessary contact between picker and recipient (customer or courier), simplifying hiring for those roles.
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Originally published on Dzen