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Kilter for operations teams

Ops, service and shared services

One place to design, route

and measure the work.

Operations teams own the processes everyone else depends on. Kilter gives them the tools to design those processes, route every request and prove where time goes.

Owner

Operations

First process

Intake

Plan

Growth

§ 00

Kilter for operations teams

One place to design, route

and measure the work.

Operations teams own the processes everyone else depends on. Kilter gives them the tools to design those processes, route every request and prove where time goes.

Owner

Operations

First process

Intake

Plan

Growth

§ 00

Kilter for operations teams

Ops, service and shared services

One place to design, route

and measure the work.

Operations teams own the processes everyone else depends on. Kilter gives them the tools to design those processes, route every request and prove where time goes.

Owner

Operations

First process

Intake

Plan

Growth

§ 01

Where it hurts

Sound familiar?

§ 01

Where it hurts

What breaks

at this point.

01

Requests arrive everywhere

Email, chat, forms and hallway conversations — none of them tracked.

02

SLAs are reported, not managed

You find out about a breach in the monthly report.

03

The bottleneck is a guess

Everyone has a theory about where work waits.

03

The bottleneck is a guess

Everyone has a theory about where work waits.

§ 02

One front door

Five channels, one intake

§ 02

One front door

Every request

through one front door.

Email, forms, chat, API and phone notes all land in the same intake — de-duplicated, classified and routed before anyone opens an inbox.

Email

ops@company

Web form

Request portal

Slack & Teams

/request

API

POST /items

Phone notes

Logged by agents

de-duplicate · classify · route

One intake

Owner

Assigned by rules

Clock

SLA starts on arrival

Status

Shared with requester

Then onto the Kilter Line

§ 03

How Kilter helps

In practice

§ 03

How Kilter helps

What changes

in the first month.

Intake

Every request through one front door.

Email, forms, chat and API intake create items with an owner and a clock — no more requests living in someone’s DMs.

Unified intake from every channel

De-duplication and classification

Requester status updates

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Overview

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IV

JK

MS

Overview

Inbox

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Workflows

Projects

Analytics

Team

Integrations

Saved views

Overdue · all hubs

My approvals

Rotterdam intake

Good morning, Ilse

Tuesday · 4 hubs · 248 open items

Today

Week

Quarter

New request

Open items

248

−12 vs last week

SLA health

97.4%

+1.8 pts

Median cycle time

2.6d

−0.4d

At capacity

3 people

Rebalance

Needs attention

5 of 23 · sorted by SLA

Review

Damaged pallet — RTM-2291

IV

Overdue 40m

Process

Customs docs missing — HAM-1184

JK

1h 20m left

Assign

Re-route request — ANR-0937

—

Unassigned

Process

Carrier delay — RTM-2307

MS

Today 16:00

Review

Rate approval €18.4k — RTM-2310

LB

Tomorrow

Throughput

this week

412 closed

+9% vs avg

SLA by hub

Rotterdam

98.9%

Hamburg

96.1%

Antwerp

97.7%

Duisburg

94.2%

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Good morning, Ilse

Tuesday · 4 hubs · 248 open items

Open items

248

−12 vs last week

SLA health

97.4%

+1.8 pts

Needs attention

5 of 23 · sorted by SLA

Damaged pallet — RTM-2291

Overdue 40m

Customs docs missing — HAM-1184

1h 20m left

Re-route request — ANR-0937

Unassigned

Carrier delay — RTM-2307

Today 16:00

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Cycle time

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JK

MS

Overview

Inbox

12

Workflows

Projects

Analytics

Team

Integrations

Saved views

Overdue · all hubs

My approvals

Rotterdam intake

Cycle time · Shipment exceptions

All hubs · last 90 days · 4,812 items

30d

90d

12m

Export

Median (p50)

2.6d

−18% vs prior

p85

5.1d

−24% vs prior

Week 37

p50 2.4d · p85 4.6d

Branch rules shipped

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Time by station

wait share

Station

Median

p85

Wait share

Trigger

0.1d

0.2d

4%

Assign

0.4d

1.1d

38%

Process

1.3d

2.6d

21%

Review

0.6d

1.0d

29%

Complete

0.2d

0.2d

8%

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Cycle time · Shipment exceptions

All hubs · last 90 days · 4,812 items

Median (p50)

2.6d

−18% vs prior

p85

5.1d

−24% vs prior

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Time by station

wait share

Station

Median

p85

Wait share

Assign

0.4d

1.1d

38%

Process

1.3d

2.6d

21%

Review

0.6d

1.0d

29%

Measurement

Find the station where time disappears.

Cycle time by station shows exactly where work waits. Fix the slowest station first, then measure again.

Wait share by station

SLA margin and near-misses

Weekly review dashboard

§ 04

Playbook

Your first 90 days

§ 04

Playbook

A plan you can start

on Monday.

01

Unify intake for one process

Route every channel into one line.

Week 1

02

Set budgets per station

Make the clock visible to everyone.

Week 2

03

Review cycle time weekly

Start with the 85th percentile.

Weeks 3–6

04

Expand to the next process

Reuse stations and rules.

Month 2

§ 05

Results

Illustrative · demonstration customers

§ 05

Results

−41%

Exception resolution time (Oxbow, fictional)

99.2%

SLA attainment, up from 93%

18 h

Saved per coordinator monthly

18 h

Saved per coordinator monthly

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Customer story

Oxbow Freight

For the first time, the morning stand-up starts with the exceptions that need a decision instead of a hunt for which ones exist.

Ilse Verhoeven · Director of Operations

−41%

Exception resolution time

Recommended plan

Growth

Branching, SLA timers, escalations and cycle-time analytics — the core operations toolkit.

From $44 / user / month, billed annually

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Put your operation

back in kilter.

Book a 30-minute walkthrough on your own workflows, or start a 14-day trial with every Growth feature.

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