[December 07, 2015] |
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Kronos Workforce Ready Helps Small and Midsize Manufacturers Improve Productivity
Kronos
Incorporated today announced that small and midsize manufacturers
across the world are increasingly turning to the Kronos (News - Alert) Workforce
Ready suite of solutions. Offering enterprise-class workforce
management solutions with full human capital management capabilities in
the cloud to manage, engage, and empower the workforce across the
employee lifecycle, Workforce Ready ultimately helps manufacturers
improve productivity and remain competitive.
News Facts
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Faced with growing global competition and a widening skills
gap, small and midsize manufacturers are moving away from error-prone
manual processes to engage their most strategic asset: the workforce.
Workforce Ready provides single-source access across time and
attendance, HR, payroll, and more applications, offering small and
midsize manufacturers the tools and real-time access to data they need
to run their operations efficiently.
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Small and midsize manufacturers that have selected Workforce Ready
include: AACOA, a leader in aluminum extrusion and fabrication; Bucher
Emhart Glass, a leading supplier of advanced technologies for
manufacturing and inspecting glass containers; Cambro Manufacturing,
a leading manufacturer of transportation electronics; Fresh Venture
Foods, a fresh produce processing plant in California serving
quality produce and service to customers across the U.S. and Canada; LaCrosse
Footwear, a 100+ year manufacturer of quality footwear; Leedo
Manufacturing Co. LP, a manufacturer of high quality cabinets and
counter tops; Northplex Ltd, a manufacturer of modular homes in
western Canada; Pinty's Delicious Foods Inc., a provider of
premium poultry products in Canada; Radio Engineering Industries,
Inc., a leading manufacturer of transportation electronics; and R.J.
Van Drunen & Sons, Inc., a manufacturer and supplier of
natural, conventional and organic, whole-food fruits, vegetables,
herbs, and other specialty ingredients.
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Kronos Workforce Ready helps manufacturers manage their employees from
pre-hire to retire by providing high-quality information and real-time
visibility into labor data. The suite allows manufacturers to:
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Manage the Employee Lifecycle: Automates end-to-end HR
processes from recruiting and onboarding to benefits,
compensation, engagement, performance management, and off-boarding;
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Track Labor Costs: Offers the ability to track scheduled
versus worked hours, as well as projected hours, enabling more
accurate budgeting of labor costs, overtime management, and
elimination f redundant spending;
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Deliver the Perfect Paycheck: Facilitates the delivery of
the perfect paycheck on time, every time with automatic
enforcement of work and pay rules and continuous calculations of
payroll data in real time;
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Create Effective Schedules: Helps build schedules, which
ensure that employees with the right certifications are in the
right place at the right time, while honoring employees'
availabilities and preferences;
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Empower a Mobile Workforce: Offers a mobile application
that enables managers and remote employees to complete workforce
management tasks from anywhere, at any time; and
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Centralize Policy Management: Automates enforcement and
tracking of federal, state, union, and employer-specific policies
and regulatory requirements, helping manufacturers minimize
compliance risk.
Supporting Quotes
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Jeff Masters, corporate controller, Leedo Manufacturing
"Workforce
Ready was the right fit for us. It's a complete suite with all the
applications we need, which include HR, payroll, time and attendance,
and leave management, and it integrates easily with our financial
systems. Workforce Ready helped us achieve a fast return on
investment."
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Harold Reyes, director of shipping/receiving, Fresh Venture Foods
"Workforce
Ready has provided our management team the ability to effectively and
efficiently manage our departments. The real-time data helps managers
and supervisors maximize productivity in a way that ultimately
improves Key Performance Measures for our organization. Additionally,
the reporting capabilities within Workforce Ready are extremely
beneficial and give us the ability to share valuable information with
both staff and senior management."
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Kylene Zenk-Batsford, senior manager, manufacturing practice group,
Kronos
"The workforce is the most strategic asset for any
manufacturer and with a growing concern over the skills gap and global
competition, manufacturers everywhere must find a way to bring out the
best from their workforces by closely aligning employee and corporate
goals. Workforce Ready helps small and midsize manufacturers do
exactly this and remain competitive with larger counterparts."
Supporting Resources
About Kronos Incorporated
Kronos is the global leader in delivering workforce management solutions
in the cloud. Tens of thousands of organizations in more than 100
countries - including more than half of the Fortune 1000® -
use Kronos to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve
workforce productivity. Learn more about Kronos industry-specific time
and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring,
and labor analytics applications at www.kronos.com.
Kronos: Workforce Innovation That Works™.
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