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A recent study by Statistics Canada measured productivity between Canadian and US businesses and found a 60% difference. While this difference is significant and should be noted, businesses on both sides of the border, regardless of size, believe that increasing their productivity is key to growth. The challenge for some of today’s businesses, is whether they are using the right tools to achieve that productivity and streamline costs.

While most organizations want to grow, but they are not certain how to go about it while others, still use manual and in some cases, outdated systems that delays their growth prospects.  ATS time and attendance data collectors help small, mid and large organizations achieve operational excellence. Below is a list of data collectors that can help companies streamline payroll costs, achieve productivity and help their business grow and navigate through an uncertain economy.

ATS PeoplePoint Premium time clock is a powerful terminal that offers unmatched application flexibility and user interaction. ATS PeoplePoint delivers rich graphics and video on a 10.1″widescreen touch display.

ATS PeoplePoint PremiumATS PeoplePoint Plus is feature-rich workforce management terminal for those who require extensive capabilities, expandable memory, attractive design, and a color touch screen. Users can easily navigate employee self-service functionality on the generously sized screen.

ATS PeoplePoint plusATS PeoplePoint Core was designed for the small businesses who want state-of-the-art workforce management terminal with comprehensive feature with an eye on their budget.

ATS PeoplePoint core

ATS time and attendance solutions enhances decision making and  helps companies work more efficiently.To learn more, go to our website or you can drop us a line at 866.294.2467.

Regardless of what type of company you run and in which industry, businesses are run by people. Forward-thinking organizations empower their people to utilize technology to automate and streamline your business processes.

ATS time and labour provides organizations with a unified and scalable workforce management solution, complete with operational functionality, intuitive reporting. ATS time and attendance connects multi-sites, departments and regions all on a single platform.

With ATS TimeWork you get increased productivity, reduced downtime and an overall improvement in your business. The integrated workforce management solution can run your entire enterprise – benefit accruals, employee self-service, employee scheduling, workforce planning, and employee time capture allowing you to do the following:

Reduce your initial investment
ATS Cloud-Based Time and attendance helps reduce your startup costs by avoiding software and hardware purchases. Streamline your business process by utilizing ATS implementation team.  ATS Cloud-Based time and attendance software architecture is designed from the ground up for maximum network performance, which can mean better application availability than traditional on-premises time and attendance systems.

Rapid deployment
ATS Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) Cloud-Based Time and Attendance solutions offer faster deployment. This affordable, scalable package includes preconfigured software and implementation services to get you up and running in a matter of weeks. And with a defined project scope and predictable cost, there are no surprises.

Flexible payment plans to stay on budget
ATS Financial Services software supports your business with low and predictable costs that scale with actual use of your solution. Cover the total cost of your time and attendance solution for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with affordable financing options. Companies can bundle their time and attendance software, time clocks, and services – into fixed or variable monthly payments, with no hidden fees.

Integrate to Human Capital Management (HCM), Payroll, ERP and HR Applications
ATS TimeWork allows for integration to other applications eliminates manual data reentry between different functional areas, saving time and reducing the risk of mistakes. ATS time and attendance solutions include features that are designed to maximize productivity and ease of use.

Add modules as your business grows
ATS workforce management solutions offer scalability that fits to your organization’s exact needs and can be adjusted as your needs change. To support your business growth, ATS unified time and attendance management solution contains inherent flexibility to adapt as requirements change. With built-in support for best practices, our industry-specific employee time and attendance system is designed for companies seeking to integrate processes company-wide.

ATS cloud-based time and attendance system is easy to scale, giving you the flexibility to add more users as your business grows.

To learn more about deploying a cloud-based time and attendance solution, go to our website and download a demo. You can also check us out on LinkedIn, Google Plus or join the conversation on Twitter.

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Break Down the Silos with a Time and Attendance System

February 11th, 2014 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Payroll | Time and Attendance Blog | Time and Attendance Canada | TimeWork | Workforce Management Solutions - (Comments Off on Break Down the Silos with a Time and Attendance System)

During a customer’s site visit to understand their business requirements, it’s not uncommon for ATS business analyst, to experience cultural and/or data accessibility silos. In fact, it is almost expected but the most gratifying of all, is how these barriers are broken after the implementation of ATS TimeWork On-Demand Time and Attendance Solution.

More often than not, silos are created when different departments and/or locations use different business management software, standards and technology for inputting and analyzing employee time and attendance data. The HR and payroll departments may be using the full capabilities of a workforce management solution, while the production department is pulling data from Excel and never reconciling the two. This type of inconsistency creates silos of non-standardized data that companies cannot rely on to make sound business decisions.

The implementing of a robust employee time management solution that’s used by all locations and departments increases the reliability of business data and also helps to break down departmental silos. By using an automated employee time clock solution companies can start sharing workforce data and other data analytics across departments and locations.

Following are three workforce productivity improvements you will notice upon implementation of an ATS time and attendance solution:

  • Eliminate IT cost and complexity with ATS TimeWork On-Demand proven, cloud solution that eliminates the cost of managing, maintaining, and upgrading business applications.
  • Improve business efficiency by eliminating redundant data entry and the time, cost and errors associated with using separate systems for production, payroll, warehousing, and finance.
  • Gain a comprehensive real-time view across the company with flexible, on-demand reporting.

When the right amount of business process organizational changes are initiated, ATS workforce management software can increase collaboration within your organization, and dissolve silos caused by communication breakdowns.

Find out how today’s company’s are using ATS TimeWork On-Demand cost-effective solution to gain competitive advantage and grow their business.

 Break Down the Silos with a Time and Attendance System

Evolving businesses are driving workforce management solutions

February 4th, 2014 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Payroll | Time and Attendance Blog | Time and Attendance Solution | Workforce Management Software - (Comments Off on Evolving businesses are driving workforce management solutions)

Due to the growth of the cloud, business executives will be seeking out new workforce management solutions with a high degree of flexibility. Many executives understand the benefits of a cloud-based time and attendance and are encouraging their managers, to explore these options.

Cloud-based workforce management software positively affects the entire organization. It creates efficiencies throughout the entire supply chain and provides businesses with access to the most up-to-date status on attendance and real-time reporting capabilities. Production managers are notified through e-mail alerts, when an employee request time-off and HR and payroll managers have instant access to attendance trends on any smartphone or tablet device from anywhere.

However, companies that are using manual timesheets struggle because they do not have access to recent and reliable information and, this can create problems in today’s fast-paced world. Companies, who leverage the benefits of an effective workforce management solution, report a decrease in the amount of time it took to predict payroll costs and other important business variables.

ATS delivers a best-of-breed portfolio of time and attendance solutions, giving companies the flexibility, choice, and control needed to drive innovation and agility into their businesses. ATS software-As-A-Service (Saas) time and attendance solution is built from the ground up and leverages ATS’s industry expertise, to enable you to execute your business strategies at scale and adapt your processes quickly and easily.

So, how does your competitor leverage a cloud-based workforce management to their advantage? They recognize that to remain competitive and increase profits, doing the same thing from 10 years ago will not work. So, they choose to utilize tools that will help their business grow, streamline costs and above all, increase productivity. An ATS time and attendance system does that and a great deal more.

To learn more, you can join our group discussion on LinkedIn, follow us on Twitter or simply view a demonstration on our website.

 

Transform your Business with Confidence

January 30th, 2014 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Employee Scheduling | Overtime | Payroll | Time and Attendance On-Demand | Time and Attendance Solution - (Comments Off on Transform your Business with Confidence)

Today’s organizations compete in an environment dramatically shaped by current economic conditions as well as ongoing challenges such as increasing customer demands, and escalating operational costs. Some of these organizations respond by deploying a time and attendance solution to help streamline payroll costs and find greater efficiencies across their organizations.

In this type of competitive environment, your business cannot afford to do nothing or it can quickly become dormant. ATS TimeWork time and attendance solution can help transform your business so you can embrace change with supreme confidence. ATS TimeWork time and attendance delivers increased agility so your organization can adapt quickly to change. ATS TimeWork drives long-term value for your business through a strong return on investment (ROI) and lower cost of ownership (TCO).

You can Transform Your Business By;

Getting more from your ATS Time and Attendance Solution
ATS Time Management solution is a great investment. It will improve the way your business performs, helping you maximize your investments with complementary modules that include: employee scheduling, forecast, job costing, leave management and overtime equalization. The solution will help ensure fast a rapid return on investment (ROI) and is backed by ATS industry-leading support.

Protecting Your Investment
ATS Business Care Plans offer a broad range of after-sales support benefits. For instance, your gold plan can provide unlimited training, access to self-service support portal and transitional upgrades and new releases.

Moving with Confidence into the Future
Companies can count on ATS TimeWork Time and Attendance for ongoing innovation and predictable product releases that provide long-term satisfaction. In addition, ATS TimeWork Time and Attendance solution is backed by a committed team of product managers, programmers and deep industry experience.

Find out why leading companies use ATS Workforce Management Solutions to achieve operational excellence.

To learn more go to our website and for a demonstration of our solution call us at; 1.866.294.2467.

3 Ways To Improve Business Processes

January 14th, 2014 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Absence Management | Benefit Accruals | Overtime | Payroll | Workforce Management Software - (Comments Off on 3 Ways To Improve Business Processes)

Manual calculation of employee time and outdated information can make it difficult to manage overtime and control labour costs. Designed for the 21st century ATS time and attendance solution delivers deep insight into all areas of an organization and helps improve productivity. ATS integrated workforce management suite provides deep business analytics tools with real-time view of labour resources across every department, enabling managers to make instant adjustments.

Here are three ways to improve your current business process:

Controlling Overtime
When left unchecked, overtime can become a drain on payroll costs. Automating data collection of employee time records is the best ways to take control of unnecessary overtime, and thus bringing down expenses. ATS business analytics allows for a complete view of the workforce that includes actual cost in dollars as well as hours. In addition our time and labour solution considers actual time worked and future schedules, alerting managers of preventable overtime situations and incidental overtime occurrences. 

Improving Productivity
ATS workforce management suite optimizes time and attendance management at every level of your enterprise. The solution lets employees view personal information such as; vacation balances, time-off requests and communicate with managers for efficient and productive self service. This helps your company’s HR and payroll department reduces errors and overpayments by validating employee time capture in real-time.

Reduce Costs
By automating the data collection with ATS time and attendance system companies automatically eliminate the costs of time sheets. This will result in savings for organizations both small and large. ATS time and attendance simplifies workforce management by configuring processes, and work rules in a single application.

ATS TimeWork is an industry-leading workforce management solution. Our integrated workforce solution include: time & attendance, benefit accruals, employee scheduling, overtime equalization, business intelligence, absence management and workforce analytics as core to the application.

To learn more, go to our website. You can also view a demonstration and learn how ATS time management solution can help your business.

At ATS, we have worked with numerous companies in industries that include: retail, hospitality, manufacturing & distribution, healthcare, construction and government. Based on our experience, when deploying a new time and attendance system, its best to forget the constant references of “how the old system worked” and focus on how the new solution can meet your current business requirements. Naturally, it is expected there will be a couple of reports or features that worked well in the old system. However, one of the reasons for evaluating a new solution is because the old one could not meet all your needs.

In no particular order, here is a list of some common mistakes to avoid when searching for a new time and attendance software:

“I want a new system that works like our current one”
Sometimes this just means it’s hard to accept the change. Some people get comfortable with their current system works (warts and all) and can be unwilling to learn a new system.

“I do not know what I want but will when I see it”
Not knowing what you want and just going about inviting vendors to give software demonstrations can create challenges. We suggest companies prepare a list of their business requirements including some “must haves” and/or “showstoppers” if applicable. This list should also include realistic goals, i.e implementation timeline, training etc. This will make the selection a bit easier.

The beauty contest
It’s very easy to get bamboozled by bells and whistles. Try to look beyond the glitz and choose a solution that is robust its calculation of your company’s pay and work rules. Ten different software demonstrations can get confusing and at a certain point, they all start to look the same. Try to keep it to a minimum of three vendors and a maximum of five.

“Here is how we do it in our current system”
This represents the importance of creating a list of requirements. While you may not find all the features of the old system in your new time and attendance, certain things like specific reports can be created if known in advance.

“We want the best price”
While we are not suggesting you “mortgage the farm” to obtain a functional system, purchasing a time and attendance solely based on price is a sign that your company’s requirements could be taking a back seat. In fact, if the solution can meet you organizational requirements, then the next steps should be ensuring the price is within your budgetary expectations.

To download a complete guide on “how to choose a time and attendance solution” go to our website. To join our group discussion, go to our LinkedIn and Twitter page.

 Evaluating a new time and attendance solution? Try to avoid these common mistakes

New Year’s resolution is a time for goal setting in our personal lives and the same hold true for businesses. Organizations small and big use the start of the year, to set business goals some which include: devising ways to increasing productivity update business forecasts and streamline payroll costs.

ATS Time and Attendance On-Demand is powerful workforce management software that is adaptable and was designed for midsize and large companies that want to grow profitably. ATS Time and Attendance On-Demand helps you streamline and optimize every area of your business. Equipped with best-in-class business management tools, the solution provides transparency and control over all your operations. With ATS Time and Attendance On-Demand, businesses can remain confident that they will receive a successful deployment and rapid return on investment (ROI), with minimal total cost of ownership.

ATS Time and Attendance On-Demand will help with:

Employee Time CaptureCollect time and analyze workforce metrics through business intelligence data to quickly and easily understand workforce patterns.

Benefit Accruals—Optimize benefit accruals and time-off requests to produce an accurate employee schedules, while meeting business performance objectives

Talent Management, ERP, HR and Payroll interfaces—Integrate ATS Time and Attendance on-Demand data with third-party applications to produce accurate workforce analytics.

Employee Self-Service—Employee can access to their personal information and schedules through an iPad, smartphone or any workstation with Internet access. With this access, employees can request job changes, submit vacation request. Managers get an alert through a mobile device once employee submits request for time-off.  

Overtime Equalization—Automate overtime distribution to employees based on seniority or other business rules.

Get your business off to a great start in 2014 by reducing labour costs with better workforce management capabilities. ATS Time and Attendance On-Demand will help you streamline business processes, control payroll costs, manage compliance risk and improve workforce productivity.

To learn more, go to our website or call us at 866.294.2467.

Accelerate Your Business in 2014 with ATS Time and Attendance On Demand

Time and Attendance Implementation Should Lead To a Reduction in Payroll Costs

December 12th, 2013 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Absence Management | Benefit Accruals | Hosted Time and Attendance Solution | Payroll | Time and Attendance On-Demand - (Comments Off on Time and Attendance Implementation Should Lead To a Reduction in Payroll Costs)

The implementation of your time and attendance solution is complete and you are still waiting to see a reduction in payroll costs. If the amount of paper work you are doing, prior to implementing this new system have not decreased, you might want to rethink your strategy. Perhaps more functional training might be required or you are not using the system to its full capacity. Whatever the reason employee time capture and other administrative costs should be falling upon completion of your time and attendance system.

ATS TimeWork gives you real-time access to all employee data including; attendance, employee absence and payroll accuracy. ATS TimeWork cloud-based solution allows today’s mid and large businesses to gain a competitive advantage while increasing profit margins.

A well planned time and attendance implementation can provide stupendous benefits, streamline business processes and improve overall efficiency within an organization. Now depending on how long your solution has been in place, its functionality should be far reaching while, allowing users, to gain access from anywhere on any device with access to the Internet.

ATS TimeWork gives you the ability to leverage the internet and provides an easy and secure process for the capturing employee time and attendance.  There is no hardware or software required, ATS TimeWork allows you to lower payroll costs and replaces traditional paper time cards, spreadsheets and costly manual, time calculation.

If you are three months into your current solution and it has not yielded the cost savings you had hope to achieve, give us a call at; 1.866.294.2467. You can also visit our website to view a demonstration of TimeWork.

 

It’s almost the end of the year and your payroll and HR departments are budding with excitement at the prospect of finally get that brand new time and attendance system they have been promised. They went through the presentation, understand the return on investment (ROI) and have made their selection. All they need is senior management sign-off.

 Here is what your HR and Payroll departments can expect, when they deploy an ATS time and attendance solution:

ATS time and attendance was designed to capture real-time information about business processes and communicate that information to third party applications which include: Talent Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, (ERP), Payroll, Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications. At the same time, ATS time and attendance software has a set of pre- configured data tools for a variety of industries, enabling them to manage their business processes, while easing current regulatory reporting and compliance.

Currently, your company’s HR and payroll departments are gathering employee vacation requests and other personal information via a series of spreadsheets. In short, there is no standard way to enter, organize, and analyze data. In addition, these paper forms are stored in filing cabinets in one location and are susceptible to fire, flood, and other natural disasters. With ATS Employee Self-Service your employees can submit vacation and other personal time-off requests through a secure web portal on any mobile device or PC that has an Internet connection and the information is available 24/7.

Of course, one would expect any good time and attendance software to provide you with real-time business intelligence and great complementary support. But that’s not all, because in addition, we offer an employee time management solution with advanced capabilities that is unmatched.

At ATS we are more than just features and benefits. The ATS time and attendance software is a dynamic platform for running your business your way. As 2013 draws to a close, your HR and Payroll are still hoping to get that new solution that will eradicate the manual process.

To learn more, go to our website. You can also contact us at 1.866.294.2467.