Time & operations

Manage time, stock, labour costs and productivity.

12 practical tools in this category

Set a freelance hourly rate that covers your income and overheads.

Measure the fraction of time spent on billable work.

Prepare an estimate from hours, rate, expenses and contingency.

Estimate annual employment cost including on-costs.

Calculate pay including hours at an overtime multiplier.

Find the labour cost of a project across a number of workdays.

Calculate paid time between start and finish, excluding a break.

Find inventory level at which to place a new order.

Calculate a simple demand-and-lead-time stock buffer.

Find the number of times average inventory is sold in a period.

Measure actual output as a percentage of potential capacity.

Calculate average fulfilment time across multiple orders.