Transportation and Distribution Solutions

Streamline your operations and deliver the goods more cost-effectively

When over half the workforce is made up of employees responsible for transportation and material movements, they become an important element of your business. They represent the major operating cost and your largest controllable expense, but they are also essential to customer service. As a result, managing this segment of your workforce is both a critical and highly complex task.

To help you better manage the workforce, you need a partner that understands its complexities. Kronos has had tremendous experience dealing with the challenges behind managing a transportation or distribution workforce, including:

Fluctuating 24/7 demand and aggressive timelines from your customers
Employee satisfaction and work/life balance
Productivity within the confines of legislation

Solving real-world problems in transportation and distribution

Kronos offers a comprehensive suite of workforce management applications, each one designed to help you solve real-world business problems. With Kronos you can:

Optimise scheduling by matching labour resources to work volume
Manage annualised hours and/or flexitime schemes
Lower your exposure to Health and Safety, employee tribunals, and the Working Time Directive
Take control of employee absences and manage holidays, lieu and sickness more efficiently, typically saving more than 30 percent of unscheduled absence¹
Enable employees to interact with the system, monitor activity, and make real-time decisions based on accurate data — even when on the road
Increase payroll accuracy by automating time and attendance to payroll processes
Independent studies suggests average savings of 3.5 percent of annual payroll cost per year²

With three decades 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.

Learn more about Kronos' Workforce Central® suite and our solutions for time and labour, absence management, and advanced scheduling.

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).