PickIQ ROI Calculator | Breathe Technologies

Your picking operation

We've filled in typical figures. Adjust them to match your site and the results update as you go.

Pickers per shiftHeadcount on the floor

1300

Hourly cost per pickerIncluding on-costs (NI, pension, agency margin)

£10£40

Current pick rateUnits per hour, per picker

UPH

10400

Shifts per dayOperating shifts running daily

Picking hours per shiftProductive hours, excluding breaks

hrs

412

Operating days per yearDays your warehouse runs

days

150365

What do you mainly pick?

How do you mainly fulfil?

Estimated annual saving with PickIQ

– to –

That's around – a month (conservative to central estimate)

–

extra units picked a year, same team

– → –

pickers per shift needed for today's output

Pick rate vs sector

–

0Sector avg2×

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On top of the labour saving

Up to 18%

less packaging, from better containerisation

Fewer

outbound truck journeys

Lower

CO₂ per order

Steadier

pick rates through peak

Case study · Mountain Warehouse

15% uplift in manual picking KPIs

How PickIQ lifted picking performance across a 458,000 sq ft distribution centre, with the same headcount and no upfront cost.

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How we work this out

Your annual picking labour cost (pickers × shifts × hours × days × hourly cost) multiplied by the productivity uplift seen in live PickIQ deployments, adjusted for your sector and channel. The conservative figure is 80% of the central one. Live deployments have seen productivity uplifts of up to 35%, so our central estimate sits on the cautious side. It's an estimate, not a promise.