There is little you can tell production managers about efficiency goals. Today's modern manufacturing and production facilities are highly tuned to maximize output. Sophisticated sales and marketing campaigns maintain a competitive edge. Team leaders then make it all worthwhile with paper, pencil and spreadsheet scheduling to bring it altogether - well it was good while it lasted.
Poorly configured shift patterns, holidays, and sickness will always impact production hours. Without a system of staff scheduling it will be much worse. Production managers do not rely on chance, or wait until things somehow sort themselves out. Production managers rely on Schedule24 Professional staff scheduling to get the deployment strategies in place that really do make it all worthwhile.
Schedule24 Professional will help Manufacturing and Production:
- Deliver an affordable solution right now, not sometime over the horizon
- Use industry standard networks requiring no specialist IT support
- Structure and align work schedules to deliver the production goals
- Use shift pattern designs to automate staff schedules
- Keep track of staff headcount, working hours and costs
- Maintain staff records including vacation and absences
- Dynamically publish staff schedules to the web for universal access
- Email schedules directly to staff for faster response
- Generate management information that improves decision making
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Schedule24 Professional Key Features
Microsoft Office Style Interface
Schedule24 Professional works just like other Microsoft Office software. It supports familiar Microsoft Office workflow which reduces training overhead and enables team leaders to be productive from day one.
Staff Scheduling and Shift Pattern Design Wizard
New to staff scheduling? Just follow the EasyStep Schedule Wizard to automate your schedule. Walk through the entire process, step-by-step, receiving helpful hints along the way. Use the shift pattern design Wizard to get your shift designs off to a flying start.
HR Personnel Manager
Maintains staff information in one place for quick and easy reference while scheduling. Staff contact details, leave entitlement and costs can be configured globally or individually. Service and training records include authorization dates for skills.
Supply-demand match shift design
Design shift patterns to maximize production demand or new ways of working. Explore and share innovative working arrangements with staff. Significantly reduce project and management negotiation with well prepared operational schedules with a click of the mouse.
Team Scheduling
Staff can be easily deployed across production teams and allocated any number of shift patterns. Changing staff from one team to another is a simple drag and drop procedure that updates the staff schedule automatically.
Coordinate production deadlines
You can coordinate team assignments and reinforce target deadlines through staff scheduling. Detailed information can be added using a combination of staff shift assignments, unavailability, breaks and memo information.
Cost and Production Management
Calculate production hours available against staff availability. Costs can also be easily calculated for hourly, daily and salaried staff. Configure variable rates for dynamically calculating overtime, premium time, weekend and public holiday working.
Better decisions
Monitor and balance staff distribution across production teams . Integrate information about staff costs and hours against the production schedule.
Publish schedules online reach all
Schedule24 Professional
dynamically publishes staff schedules to the web so team leaders can access team schedules from the production line. Anyone can access scheduling information via their web browser. For a more direct approach staff can be emailed their schedules.
Management Information
In addition to staff schedules a range of reports including dynamic reporting options about scheduling activity can be generated including breakdown costs, calculation of production hours, staff time sheets and time and attendance reporting.
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