kronos manufacturing solutions guide

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How Can You Stay Competitive and Control Costs?


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The ability to obtain project cost and status every 15minutes is a great feature. The Kronos solution interactswith our ERP system seamlessly.

John Russo, Senior Business Analyst

Elliott Company


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LeaN, agiLe budgetiNg is a Must. You operate in a ercely competitive environment, with

threats rom low-wage competition ever present. You need to eliminate excess payroll costs,

waste, and unproductive time so you can increase overall labor eectiveness.

NoNcoMpLiaNce caN cost You. Minimizing the risk o potentially crippling legal action

and labor grievances is a smart move or your business. You need a solution that acilitates

transparency and supports you by documenting your compliance eorts with state, ederal, and

union regulations.

YouR peopLe aRe the diFFeReNce. A creative, high-perorming workorce can be the actor

that determines whether you innovate or all behind. You need to be able to understand how your

workorce is working, so you can deploy it or optimum results.

Keep it siMpLe. Automating employee processes rom timekeeping and scheduling to

shop foor data collection pays dividends. Operators and supervisors can eliminate time-

consuming, repetitive tasks and use accurate, up-to-the-minute inormation to make decisions

that create a sustainable competitive advantage.


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coNtRoL LaboR costs | sy gy Wgn yrll r. Why take chances with payroll errors and overpayments that can add 0.5 to 3 percent to your

total payroll costs? Manual and semiautomated processes can lead to a host o incorrect payments, not to mention

inconsistent enorcement o work and pay rules. Now you can automate timekeeping so you can cut down on errors

and keep labor costs under control.

prn rn . How can you manage protability when your production costs vary unpredictably rom

week to week? Kronos or Manuacturing lets you track whats happening on the shop foor in real time. No more

nding out two weeks later that a simple labor adjustment could have prevented unnecessary overtime or allowed

you to meet that critical customer deadline. Because i you can see when employees are contributing to the bottom

line and when theyre not you can act in time.

MiNiMiZe coMpLiaNce RisK | Frn cnny n cnfnLitigation on behal o nonexempt employees over alleged violations o state and ederal labor laws including the

Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is on the rise.

Kronos or Manuacturing acilitates compliance with government regulations and labor laws by automating manual

time and attendance, payroll, and scheduling processes using business rules so you minimize the potential or

human error and can avoid illegal scheduling assignments. Complete automation helps reduce unauthorized time

rom being worked and helps ensure that breaks mandated by law are taken.

And the solution goes even urther to reduce regulatory risk by centralizing employee attendance and leave-case

inormation: applying work rules uniormly across locations while generating accurate, detailed audit trails thatenhance your compliance eorts.

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iMpRove WoRKFoRce pRoductivitY | bn efnyThe rst step toward getting more rom your workorce is scheduling the right people to work at the right time.

With Kronos or Manuacturing you can connect production demand directly to employee scheduling, so you start each

shit with the right mix o employees and skills or getting the job done.

Second, dont let unplanned employee absences and late arrivals interere with your delivery deadlines. Kronos or

Manuacturing lets you establish policies that improve attendance, with rewards or top perormers and penalties that

discourage poor behavior. Production lines will start on time and youll decrease overtime costs or replacement workers.

And nally, since you cant predict or control everything, Kronos or Manuacturing gives you a real-time look into whats

happening on the shop foor. Find out about material delays, machine downtime, and changed delivery dates in time

to redeploy employees, so you can minimize delays and added costs. And you can use these same tools ater the act,

to bring systemic problems to light, uncover trends, and identiy improvements.

LiNKiNg LaboR to pRoductivitY | Knw Wr dllr ar gnKronos or Manuacturing gives you a better way to allocate actual labor costs to production, so you can account or how

every labor dollar is spent. The solution makes it possible to move beyond using standard costs or labor, even when

your labor picture includes complexities like dierent wages, premium pay, partial shits, and team allocation.

With Kronos you can allocate 100 percent o your actual labor costs to production. No more estimates and unexplained

variances. From now on, youll have act-based labor details on the protability o a specic production line. And its

all generated automatically rom your integrated, automated shop foor collection system.

Alora Brady Perkins, Employee Relations ManagerRheem Manufacturing

Rheem has experienced an increase in productivity, a decrease

in downtime, and a defnite decrease in absenteeism, which has

improved our employee morale.


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Kronos helps organizations across a variety o industries manage their most valuable, and

expensive, strategic asset their workorce. How? By giving them the tools they need to

help them control labor costs. Minimize compliance risk. And improve workorce productivity.The easy-to-own workorce management solutions rom Kronos make complete automation

and high-quality inormation a reality.

Our time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring,

and labor analytics solutions give Kronos customers the edge they need to compete in

the global marketplace. With thousands o installations in organizations o all sizes

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