BE PROACTIVE WITH YOUR PEOPLE
Supercharging the Manufacturing industry through easy workforce management
The manufacturing world can supercharge its operations by making gains from an improved and proactive people experience. Manufacturing organisations operate in a fast-paced and demanding environment, and productivity is vital in helping you push for success. Discover how by having the right systems and technology in place, you can unlock this productivity potential of your people, supercharging your workforce to push your business to greater degrees of success.
Workforce Management and the Manufacturing Industry
We know the manufacturing industry is routinely juggling a variety of wide-ranging challenges, from on-site security to concerns around productivity and simply ensuring you have the right people, with the right skills, on the right shifts, at the right time. At Advanced, our workforce management solutions help manufacturers become proactive with their people. This frees your employees to better harness their time and efforts in ways that will materially impact your performance. Whether it’s our Time and Attendance, HR, Access Control, or Performance Management solutions, we can help you supercharge your manufacturing.
Challenges in the world of Manufacturing
CHALLENGES
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Manual Scheduling
Do you struggle with getting the right people with the right skills, in the right shifts at the right time? The consequences of poor employee scheduling can manifest as workplace stress, staff conflicts, poor productivity, increased absenteeism, and ultimately poor retention of a trained and skilled workforce.
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Complete Oversight
Do you struggle with having complete oversight where your people are carrying out on-site job? We know that business and employee safety is of paramount importance.
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Employment Gaps
Do you have critical job positions that remain empty because there aren't enough skilled workers?
Filling the manufacturing skills gap will be critical to your business getting head and staying productive.
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Compliance
Do you struggle to remain compliant?
Manufacturers are faced with an extraordinary amount of compliance risks and regulatory requirements, whether it is quality control or employment law.
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Low Employee Engagement
Are your people engaged and productive?
Another challenge the manufacturing industry HR faces is the need for a higher level of employee engagement. This is one of the most significant reasons for high turnover rates in the manufacturing sector. So, by following the right employee engagement strategy, manufacturing organisations can benefit from a very real increase in productivity.
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Retention and Attrition
Are you able to retain the talented people you have in your business?
Especially within manufacturing, most HR departments face the very real challenge of retaining highly skilled workers within an organisation. Given the already substantial shortages in its workforce and recruiting abilities, minimising attrition is critical for manufacturing companies.
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Training Needs
Do your staff have the skills they need for your business to succeed?
It is essential for manufacturing firms to have the space and ability to provide adequate training to all employees to keep them current with the latest developments within the industry and best prepare them for upcoming challenges. Likewise, training and development are critical in developing the personal and professional growth that is crucial in creating greater levels of employee satisfaction and stimulation. Along with the much-needed changes that need to take place in recruiting procedures, employee retention, and worker engagement, efficient and effective training and development systems are at the top of the list of things HR professionals within the manufacturing industry must focus on to stay competitive within the global marketplace.
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Security
Is your site secure? Not having a clear understanding of who is able to access key areas of your business and spaces is vital for organisations in understanding whether they need to look to embed a more robust security policy. Lackluster access control policies can make the flow of personnel through the business an almost insurmountable hurdle to overcome and can open organisations up to the threat of severe security breaches.
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Advanced Time and Attendance
CAPABILITIES
More than just Workforce Management
Find out more about the powerful features that sit within our workforce management software
How our Wokforce Management solutions help you
FEATURES & BENEFITS
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Automated Time Tracking
Time and Attendance
Advanced’s Time and Attendance automated time tracking makes it simpler for employees, managers, and HR teams to submit, track and manage attendance and worked hours, helping you achieve operational excellence across your workforce.
Advanced Time and Attendance can automate your rostering planning to free up valuable time – at the push of button, saving hours of work per week
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Self-Service Tool
Time and Attendance
Using a computer or mobile device to access Advanced Time and Attendance, your employees can take control of their absence requests, log sicknesses and check their holiday entitlement through easy-to-use self-service tools, saving you time and money.
Advanced Time and Attendance’s contactless clocking in and out removes the need for your staff to carry devices such as cards, fobs, so that your site is more secure and efficient
HR Manager
HR Manager’s self-service of information takes away the pressure from your HR teams who too often find themselves losing valuable time to admin-heavy tasks. Self-service functionality puts the power in the hands of your people to take charge of their schedules, with rules set by your business so that every shift is filled by the right people.
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Touch Points
Time and Attendance
The modern workplace often features flexible working practices such as job-sharing, flexitime, and remote working. To support this, Advanced Time and Attendance is accessible online, allowing staff to manage their work from their PCs, smartphones, and other mobile devices, wherever they may be..
Advanced’s Time and Attendance IP66 accredited terminals, can be placed in any type of harsh environment, and can be power washed and bleached, to meet hygiene regulations.
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Employee Engagement
Time and Attendance
With employee turnover rates so closely entwined with engagement and wellbeing, Advanced Time and Attendance provides you with an effective overview of how motivated and aligned with ongoing strategy your people are.
Advanced Time and Attendance empowers your employees to swap shifts and request extra shifts – all within the rules you set – improving their work-life balance and financial wellbeing, and productivity.
HR Manager
HR Manager’s diary feature provides timely notifications before important dates. These notification reminders inform managers about upcoming employee milestones such as appraisals, long-service awards, or pay rises, helping to support employee engagement.
Clear Review
Clear Review drives meaningful conversations, agile goal-setting and regular feedback all contribute to improved employee engagement:
- Monitor employee wellbeing and engagement levels with My Mindspace.
- Understand your employees with customised surveys.
- Ensure all employees are heard with our Suggestion box .
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Reduce Employee Turnover
Clear Review
Employees who feel recognised at work are more likely to be engaged, reducing employee turnover. Our Clear Review platform allows manufacturing organisations to send out internal surveys, which can be tailored to ask well-being and engagement monitoring questions. Responses can be seen as soon as they are given, allowing leaders, managers and HR to view the results and start to take action if anything seems troubling.
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Identify Training Needs
Clear Review
Clear Review’s Performance Snapshots give an overview of employee performance, created by managers answering a set of questions that yield fact based answers using the information gathered on Clear Review, rather than answers based on feeling and opinions.
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Easily manage communications
HR Manager
Easily manage communications with our report generation, letter, and mail merge features within HR Manager
Clear Review
Advanced Clear Review's real-time feedback functionality helps employees at every level to succeed and thrive. Continuous feedback is a fundamental building block of effective performance management. Feedback can be given to anybody in the organisation regardless of their role.
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Reports and Analysis
Time and Attendance
Our workforce analytics solution simplifies the reporting process, capturing data from across the organisation to deliver accurate, instant, timely reports to the right people. Advanced Time and Attendance’s analytics provides stunning and intuitive visualisation, accessible via powerful yet simple dashboards.
HR Manager
HR Manager empowers you to unlock reports that can help you understand underlying trends, skills gaps, and any underperforming areas of the business to proactively rectify and plan ahead for the future.
Give managers a real-time view of wage spend versus budget, and create and consume real-time reports within HR Manager
Clear Review
Clear Review’s analytics functionality means you'll receive data-driven insights into key values that can help you make critical business decisions. Clear and actionable insights are at your fingertips when you transform your performance management processes with Advanced Clear Review.
Featured resources for you
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WEBINAR
Become proactive with your people by supercharging your manufacturing
45minutes
John McManus,
Country Director, Advanced
Join John McManus, Country Director for Ireland at Advanced, for an illuminating insight into how the manufacturing industry can enhance their operations by prioritizing an improved and proactive people experience.
