27 Aug Solve Manufacturing Employee Scheduling Problems
Today’s article is for small-medium-sized manufacturers whose old school scheduling methods are not doing the job.
Paper-based employee scheduling techniques are:
- Slow and tedious
- Unable to quickly react to scheduling emergencies
- Prone to inaccuracies
- Not equipped to manage overtime
- Difficult to share with employees
In addition, employees need to go through a supervisor or HR department to obtain schedule, time card, and PTO information and it is cumbersome for staff members to submit and obtain shift change approvals.
Imagine if your production equipment was this outdated, ineffective, and inefficient.
These problems affect everyone in the business:
- Owners overpay for labor, which reduces profit margins
- Owners lose money due to high employee turnover
- Owners are at risk of compliance infractions
- Company misses production deadlines which threatens client contracts and business reputation
- Employees work more overtime than they want to
- Employees can’t access the schedule when they are not at work
- Staff members have to go through a manager to request shift changes
- Short-handed shifts force staff members on-the-clock to pick up the slack, which, in turn, often leads to employee burnout
- Scheduling managers spend so much time assembling schedules that they have little time for other vital tasks
- Scheduling managers can’t easily accommodate employee schedule requests
Deep-rooted problems that affect every level of the organization require a powerful yet easy-to-implement solution. Workforce Management Suite from Payroll Partners has tools to transform employee scheduling at manufacturing plants.
Workforce Management Suite consists of TimeSimplicity which offers expedited scheduling and TimeWorksPlus for integrated time and attendance tracking.
- Create schedules with drag-and-drop simplicity
- Customizable job codes make sure the employees with the necessary skills are scheduled
- System automation finds eligible associates to cover open shifts
- Customized system warnings reduce over-staffing and unplanned overtime
- Complete mobile coordination for staff members and management
- Employee Self Service allows staff to manage their time cards, post shift requests, and monitor PTO accruals
- Automatically creates audit-ready records
Workforce Management Suite is the industry-leading customizable scheduling system for manufacturing facilities that run 24/7.
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WorkforceHUB™ includes TimeWorksPlus, TimeSimplicity, and TimeWorks Mobile. We’ve just added onboarding, benefits enrollment, performance reviews, and employee engagement! WorkforceHUB™ is created for busy employers like you who need to streamline scheduling, automate time and attendance tracking, maintain regulatory compliance, and decrease labor costs.
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