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 recognize 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
- Maximizing the use of contract flexibility (e.g. annualized hours contracts), ensuring that any under- or over- utilization of resources is avoided and costly overtime is minimized
- 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 recognize 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 labor 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-authorized absence through better visibility of attended hours
- Comply with Federal and State laws through rule-based scheduling
- Reduce the time spent by valuable resource planners in scheduling creation and attendance management
- Encouraging the development of a more responsive production operation leading to improved use of cash
- Provide Head Office with near-instantaneous feedback on production operations
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
AstraZeneca | BAE Systems | British Sugar | Gallaher | Motorola | Philips | Tetley | Thorntons