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Labor
Performance
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 The
most valuable asset of any organization is its workforce. In some businesses,
labor expenses can comprise as much as 80% of product cost. The Labor Performance
(L/P) package improves profitability by providing manufacturing managers with
labor management information so that labor resources can be deployed and optimized
to meet production and budget objectives.
Important advantages
of Labor Performance are:
- Separates labor into
direct and indirect status
- Monitors employee attendance
through payroll records
- Analyze employee/supervisor
performance and productivity
- Salaried/hourly employees
and incentive earnings reports
- Provides for entry
of regular, overtime, and special wages
The Macola ES Labor Performance
package is both a labor analysis package and a data collection package.
 Labor
Performance helps reduce labor costs by providing information on how employees
are spending their time on any given day. The labor performance module tracks
the activities performed by employees and measures the productivity associated
with that activity.
The ability to view this
information by employee, job and shop order allows supervisors to measure
productivity, identify variances and take corrective action.
The L/P module maintains
each employee’s standard hours earned and direct hours actually worked to
measure productivity. L/P also maintains indirect hours worked by an employee
to determine the percentage of direct hours to indirect hours measuring what
percentage of the employees time is utilized performing value added work.
Total hours are tracked and compared to standard hours earned to measure how
effectively labor resources are being managed.
Labor
analysis reports
- The Employee Analysis
reports analyze the performance of both the employee and the shop supervisor.
- Labor History reports
are used to evaluate employee performance based on efficiency, productivity
and direct hours worked.
- Work Center Capacity
reports show how efficiently particular work centers are being used to produce
products.
The L/P module also acts
as a data collection interface to improve data timeliness and accuracy. The
Macola ES Labor Performance module allows users of Macola ES’s Shop Floor
Control and Manufacturing Cost Accounting to integrate with time and attendance
and shop floor data collection solutions.
Time
and attendance
Keeping track of employee attendance can be a challenge for manufacturers
with even a moderately sized workforce. The Macola ES Labor Performance module
can integrate to a time and attendance system to improve data accuracy and
accountability.
Labor
transaction processing
The L/P module is used to enter and edit labor transactions to record the
elapsed time
and quantity of work completed at each operation.
To minimize the volume
of data entry, L/P allows you to report labor by work cell or crew so that
the same data does not need to be repetitively entered.
Labor transactions can
be entered through Macola ES’s labor transaction application, or transaction
entry can be automated by integrating an electronic data collection system
to L/P via an ASCII interface. In addition to tracking labor, L/P provides
the means to track the flow of materials by shop order as work is completed
through operations. In an ideal data collection system each operation or work
cell has a bar code terminal reader, where workers record starting times,
ending times and the quantity completed at each operation.
Module
Prerequisites
The Shop Floor Control and Manufacturing Cost Accounting modules are required
to run Labor Performance.
System
feature summary
- Separate labor into
direct and indirect status
- Clock card processing
integration
- Accommodate incentive
pay
- Employee performance
analysis
- Supports shift premiums
- Supports work cells
and crews
- Supports the calculation
of regular, overtime and special wages
- Track employee attendance
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