Manufacturing
Problems
- To be able to respond to changes in type of work, volume, duration and skill set the manufacturing industry must exploit the flexibility of their staff by implementing modern workforce management solutions.
- The manufacturing industry must be able to recognise individual and collective productivity, tackle under-achievement and reward over-achievement.
Solutions
WorkPlace Systems workforce management solutions feature:
- Simulation of different operating models, different capacity levels and manufacturing capabilities to design and implement future resourcing policies.
- Forecast the demand for work and optimally align individuals and teams to that demand, delivering the right person performing the right tasks at the right time.
- Maximising the use of contract flexibility (e.g. annualised hours contracts), ensuring that any under- or over- utilisation of resources is avoided and costly overtime is minimised.
- A solution that help line managers to constantly react to changing circumstances, by revising their schedules and keeping track of absence.
- Schedules delivered to employees using a web based self service portal.
- Capturing of both the time, the activities and the job number performed, passing that information seamlessly and accurately to payroll and other manufacturing systems.
- Advanced web-based reporting capabilities to recognise and manage performance. Productivity levels are improved by being able to target poor performing individuals with e-learning whilst rewarding over performance.
Benefits
- Save up to 5% of costs by a reallocation of premium payments and a reduction of hours.
- Improve productivity by matching volumes of work with the appropriate resources.
- Reduce labour turnover by planning schedules around individual working time preferences, re-planning flexible contracts to more closely fit in with the production schedules - leading to reduced costs through reduced recruitment and training of new recruits.
- Reduce errors in over-payment and reduce un-authorised absence through better visibility of attended hours.
- Comply with local labour and Health & Safety laws through rule-based scheduling.
- Reduce the time spent by valuable resource planners in scheduling creation and attendance management.
- Provide Head Office with near-instantaneous feedback on production operations.
- Encouraging the development of a more responsive production operation leading to improved use of cash.
Client Quotes
"WorkPlace System's advanced rules-based technology complements our style of planning."
"It has been developed from a planner's viewpoint, thinking and taking the decisions as we would, only infinitely faster and with absolute accuracy. We trust WorkPlace as a planning tool and its graphs and overview information make rapid assessment possible for every situation: key factors for effective planning."
Tetley GB
Client References
AG Barr | AstraZeneca | BAE Systems | British Sugar | Gallaher | Motorola | Philips | Tetley | Thorntons
Industry Ranges
Retail | Hospitality | Emergency Ser. | Utilities | Transport | Manufacturing | Healthcare | Government