Solve Manufacturing Employee Scheduling Problems

by | Jul 25, 2018 | Scheduling

Today’s article is for small-medium-sized manufacturers whose old school scheduling methods are not doing the job.

Paper-based employee scheduling processes 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, workers need to go through a manager or HR department to obtain schedule, time card, and PTO information and it is cumbersome for associates to submit and obtain shift change approvals.

Imagine if your production equipment was this outdated, ineffective, and inefficient.

These problems affect everyone in the organization:

  • Owners overpay for labor, which reduces profit margins
  • Owners lose money due to poor employee retention
  • Owners are in jeopardy 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 monitor the schedule when they are not at work
  • Workers 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 causes employee burnout
  • Scheduling managers spend so much time assembling schedules that they have little time for other critical tasks
  • Scheduling managers can’t easily accommodate employee shift requests

Deep-rooted problems that affect every level of the organization require a powerful yet easy-to-implement solution. Workforce Management Suite from Payroll Solutions has tools to transform employee scheduling at manufacturing operations.

Workforce Management Suite incorporates TimeSimplicity which offers streamlined scheduling and TimeWorksPlus for integrated time and attendance tracking.

  • Set up schedules with drag-and-drop simplicity
  • Customizable job codes make sure the employees with the necessary certifications are scheduled
  • System automation finds eligible associates to cover open shifts
  • Customized system warnings reduce over-staffing and unplanned overtime
  • Complete mobile coordination for team members and management
  • Employee Self Service empowers 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 developed for busy employers like you who need to streamline scheduling, automate time and attendance tracking, maintain regulatory compliance, and lessen labor costs.

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