You have TWO options for tracking Staff time on your Jobs and productivity, actual to budgeted time: Option 1 is using the manual time sheet system, which has been used by NZ manufacturers for over 100 years without change and without improvement. Manual time sheet reporting provides production information “too little, too late, too inaccurate and too expensive”. For example, a manufacturer with 10 workshop staff using manual time sheets has lost production time and administration time cost of $800 per week therefore $40,000 per year. Option 2 is using the technology of touchscreens on the workshop floor and a Labour Tracking and Productivity Software App, subscription cost is substantially less than the cost of manual time sheets, actually such Apps are as little as 15% of the weekly cost of manual time sheets. Such Apps have 200+ screens and reports in real time and accurate production information, accurate individual staff times and job times, presented continuously throughout the day on 50 inch TV monitors in office and on the workshop floor. One good Labour Tracking and Productivity App option is www.empowersoftware.co.nz – you will see a 20 year and 200+ manufacturing clients’ track record of securing: 20% to 40%+ reduction in labour times on Jobs and 20% to 40%+ reduction of labour cost on Jobs. This on a 10 workshop staff manufacturing site is 80 additional production hours per week and $6,400 additional revenue per week. www.empowersoftware.co.nz

NZ Manufacturing Magazine, October 2022 (page 6)