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Services: Project Implementation
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The need for Time and Labor Data
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In today's increasingly competitive marketplace, it is more crucial than ever for organizations to automate and streamline time and labor processes. Athena Enterprises is there to help you deliver more timely and useful data and improve timekeeping, scheduling and attendance processes.
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The Requirements - labor data involves many areas: HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, and Operations
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With smart integration, operations, technology and payroll/HRIS converge to take labor activity and cost data to the next level of efficiency. The data your system requires and the outputs it offers present critical touch points across the organization's systems. Before the application is installed you need to know those requirements and limitations. Athena's focus on Workforce Management Technology (WMT) means we know what the issues are.
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Complex & Urgent – Time & Attendance systems are complex and present many difficult decisions and tasks.
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Workforce Management Technology systems are complex:
- Configuration is based on complicated pay practices.
- Screen setup (electronic user workspaces) must support and improve key business processes
- Databases are interdependent.
- Interfaces must be timed around various business systems, policies, reporting requirements and system operations.
- System users have a wide range of skill levels, needs and deadlines.
- Controls and access must be well understood & carefully setup
- Accuracy, testing, and contingencies are critical.
- Documentation and training are detailed and extensive
It takes years of experience, technical training, exposure to best practices, and creative problem solving to handle these complexities. You need to make decisions now. Engaging Athena consultants will fast track your ramp up efforts.
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Opportunity = ROI
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The key to achieving the greatest ROI is to stay focused on the business benefits the new system is expected to deliver. Delivering timely and meaningful labor data creates a powerful business tool for managing labor costs and increasing profitability. Our consultants can help you optimize your practices and system setup to enable employees to work smarter and spend less time collecting and processing labor activity data. More importantly, we'll explore your business areas to identify ways labor data can help managers reduce labor expenses, improve daily operations and realize a higher return on your investment.
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Visibility -–> Impact --> Success
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By its nature, a WMT system is highly visible - reaching a broad user base and directly impacting every employee on an ongoing basis. System implementations can be expensive and time consuming, thus attracting the organization's attention at a high level. Athena consultants will assist your organization in the successful roll-out of a system that delivers significant benefits to both system owners and users.
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Here's what well-designed and executed time and attendance and related systems have to offer:
- Automate complicated pay programs
- Control overtime and premium costs
- Provide a single entry point for employee records; eliminate duplicate systems and processes
- Enhance collection of labor activity - provide real time data; break down costs; flag activity
- Provide automated tools for review and approval of employee activity so employees and managers can focus on your business
- Notify managers automatically of employee activity
- Institute rules that ensure consistency and fairness in pay practices; enforce policy compliance
- Track attendance
- Integrate HR, scheduling, and business data with timekeeping data
- Estimate labor costs for project bids
- Project labor expenses for acquisitions or increased production
- Evaluate work flow
- Map labor activity to specific products, tasks or services
- Integrate business data with labor data for analysis
Project Schedules - There is time to deliver all the benefits, not just count beans
Implementing a new WMT system can be a daunting task. Many decision lie ahead and numerous systems and players are involved. The system and processes involved are complex and often not well documented. These challenges and a desire to the system up and running quickly can suggest to some business owners that moving quickly towards roll-out prevents them from maximizing all the benefits they can from the new system.
But a rapid roll-out and a positive ROI are not mutually exclusive when you partner with the experts at Athena Enterprise. We know where the opportunities for ROI exist, how to drill down quickly to obtain your requirements, and then how to execute a design methodology that quickly delivers your expected results. Doing things smarter doesn't necessarily take more time - it takes experience. Let Athena consultants enhance your project and system outcomes.
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