Kronos for Manufacturing

Streamline your operations without sacrificing productivity or quality

Manufacturers need to remain competitive in an economy that demands efficiency. To accomplish that, many have adopted Six Sigma and other lean initiatives. Some are off-shoring, but surprisingly, many have yet to focus on their largest controllable expense: the workforce.

For those manufacturers, workforce management remains a manual and error-prone process. It's also a costly one. Paper-based attendance tracking and scheduling systems weigh heavily on the productivity of managers, employees, and operational staff.

To address these problems, you need a partner that understands the challenges to managing a manufacturing workforce, improving margins while constantly juggling:

Aggressive deadlines and fluctuating demands from your customers
Production output and quality
Employee satisfaction

Solving real-world problems in manufacturing

Kronos offers a comprehensive suite of workforce management applications designed to help you address real-world business issues. In fact, we've been solving real-world problems for some of the world's largest and most widely recognised manufacturers. And we've been doing it for decades.

With Kronos for Manufacturing you can:

Optimize workforce scheduling and deployment by aligning labor resources with customer and business demand
Reduce operating costs by making optimal use of your existing workforce and minimizing the need for overtime and temporary labor
Manage annualized hours and/or flexitime schemes
Improve productivity and quality by making real-time decisions based on actual shop-floor activity data, reduce non-productive labor hours
Reconcile the actual labor hours with paid labor hours, reduce payroll inflation, independent studies suggests average savings of 3.5 percent of annual payroll cost per year²
Increase payroll accuracy by automating time and attendance to payroll processes
Take control of employee absences and manage holidays, lieu and sickness more efficiently, typically saving more than 30 percent of unscheduled absence¹
Lower your exposure to the Working Time and leave time Directive

With more than 30 years of experience, no one understands the workforce better than Kronos. Ours is a complete system that will fit your environment and can earn you a faster return on your investment than most competitive offerings.

¹	"Absence Management: A Survey of Policy and Practice," CIPD Annual Survey Report, 2005.
²	"ROI Evaluation Report: Workforce Timekeeper," Nucleus Research, 2002 (sponsored by Kronos).