Time and Attendance Blog, Workforce Management Software

Employee Time Management Solution That Will Bring A Smile To Your Face

Why would employee time tracking solution bring a smile to your face? Well, to start the benefits are tremendous. ATS leading time and attendance solution provides companies with a powerful tool that streamlines payroll preparation, simplifies workforce planning and improves payroll compliance. In addition, the application manages employee absences and vacation tracking, all in real-time.

Additional Benefits Include:

Streamline Payroll Preparation
Using paper time-sheets and spreadsheets can waste valuable time on repetitive data entry and corrections. ATS time tracking solution automates the time collection process, applies it to your payroll and other wage policies. ATS TimeWork calculates hourly totals, provides your payroll practitioner with up-to-the-minute summaries and then sends that data to your payroll software.

Forecasting and Workforce Planning
There is a better way to create and post schedules with the ATS scheduler. By using ATS workforce planning tool, you will meet the demands of your business.

Tracking Time-Off
ATS time tracking solution automates the tracking of paid and unpaid time-off all based on your company’s policies. Through self-service employees can view sick time balances at their convenience and request time off using any workstation or mobile device with Internet access.

Adhere to Regulatory Compliance
ATS time and attendance system helps companies comply with various labour and wage and hour regulations, including collective bargaining agreements. ATS system stores years of data in easy-to-access electronic form, providing the, provincial, municipal, state and federal overtime compliance reports needed to help you avoid costly violations.

Access Your Data Anytime, Anywhere
ATS TimeWork is a time and attendance application designed for midsize and large enterprise with complex pay and work-rule operations. ATS TimeWork cloud-based, product suite provides an end-to-end workforce management solution with module features for; labour planning, business intelligence, workforce planning, job costing and data integration. If you are searching for a robust and large-scale time and attendance solution, look no further.

With ATS TimeWork time and attendance you can accelerate and improve business operations, streamline the payroll processes and increase productivity. Now, that’s a great reason to smile! To learn more, go to our website.

Employee Time Management SolutionThat Will Bring A Smile To Your Face

Employee Scheduling, Payroll, Time and Attendance

Don’t Bite Off More Than You Can Chew

The term “bite off more than you can chew” is as relevant in the world of business automation as it is in just about every area of life. And to quote one of ATS longest tenured and most senior internal programmers; “time and attendance was intended to be easy and not the overly complicated application it appears to be today. While I understand that times have changed, the fundamentals remains the same. The original intent was to track employees time through the use of a software.” If that’s the case, then why do some businesses insist on a myriad of bells and whistles when in fact, only a tiny portion of the application is used.

While ATS advocates the use of additional modules as your business grows, our approach has always been to use what comes with the system or take the simple approach when automating attendance. If it’s insufficient, by all means, add modules and expand the use of your system. Of course, some companies want to make sure they are “getting the best bang for their buck” hence, the inquiry for bells and whistles at the outset. If that’s the case, then by all means go ahead. So what should you do if you are either thinking of buying a workforce management solution for the first time or changing to a new one? Here are some things to look for:

Scalability-Does this new system has the ability to grow with your business? For example, what if you were to add locations in Saskatchewan, New York and Vancouver in the next two years? Is this new system capable of handling work rules in those different jurisdictions?

Integration-How flexible is this system? If, for example you were about to purchase a payroll system that does not allow for third-party integration, unless it’s with the vendor’s preferred partner, find a different vendor. No company should be tied to propriety software that does not allow for data integration. That’s a 1980s type of mentality by a tiny number of software vendors, who are slowly shrinking into oblivion. The best software companies, today allow for integration into their applications, whether its; CRM, ERP, HRIS, Time and Attendance or Payroll Software.

Keep it Simple-If you have determined that the company you are about to choose can meet your business requirements and grow with you, then that’s a good start. Hold off the desire to implement everything under the sun. If the original intent is to track employee time, get reports in real-time and have the data be sent to your payroll software electronically, start there. The 200 plus reports, benefit accruals, job costing, employee scheduling, business intelligence and bevy of software modules can be added later on.

Deployment of a time and attendance should, at the very least be simple to implement, use and understand. That said, it is important to not be complacent when understanding the long-term implications and risks of whatever path you may choose. A company with deep expertise will help ensure that these tradeoffs and risks are objectively considered as part of your time and attendance and implementation process. And that’s where ATS deep expertise comes in.

To learn about ATS follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter or through Google Plus. And for a demonstration of ATS TimeWork go to our website.

Don't Bite Off More Than You Can Chew

Benefit Accruals, Employee Scheduling, ERP, Job Costing, Payroll

Improve Productivity and Business Growth With ATS TimeWork On-Demand

The responsibility of financial executives includes, among others; capital structure, planning, budgeting, audit and compliance. Today, more than ever, the role of a financial manager has increased exponentially to include areas of human resources and payroll.

ATS time and attendance enables you to manage your core business processes with a single, fully integrated system while allowing flexibility in a changing business environment. Financial executives need confidence that their organizations are keeping their numbers in line, streamlining payroll costs, managing risks, and managing compliance – which in turn, will allow their company to grow.

ATS TimeWork On-Demand provides the following benefits:

Financial Reporting Capabilities
ATS forecasting and budgeting tool offers unprecedented efficiency and accuracy for meeting audit and reporting requirements.

Growth Alignment
ATS TimeWork On-Demand and is designed for growing businesses. ATS time tracking solutions include rapid implementation tools, and services, to help organizations quickly implement and adopt enterprise-class applications.

Low Cost of Ownership
Our cloud-based time and attendance solution eliminates the need for expensive servers, databases, backups and IT infrastructure. TimeWork fits the needs of your business today, with the flexibility and scalability to grow with your business.

Business Processes and Decisions
ATS real-time workforce reporting and analytics helps companies make faster, and better decisions. By leveraging our workforce management software business process, you can focus on your core business challenges, instead of day-to-day manual tracking methodologies.

Manage Risk, Compliance and Governance
ATS business intelligence helps improve workforce productivity through reliable reporting tools. Through proper configuration of collective bargaining agreements and pay policies, ATS time and attendance unifies time keeping business requirements while helping to improve the certainty of their business results.

The businesses using ATS time and attendance system, quickly realize the benefits of being able to collect, extrapolate and process data in real-time and on a continuous basis. ATS delivers improved business results while optimizing time tracking processes to improve efficiencies, reduce costs, and streamline day-to-day time collection operations.

To learn more, download a demo of our best-in-class software-as-a-service (SaaS) time and attendance solutions with the enterprise-grade security, availability and elasticity you can expect from ATS.

Business Intelligence, Cloud Based Time and Attendance, Human Resources, Payroll, Workforce Analytics

Attendance Software: Myth VS Reality

April 22nd, 2014 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Payroll | Time and Attendance Blog, Workforce Management Software | Time Management Solutions - (Comments Off)

Recently, one of our practice leads had a conversation with the President of a large multi-site garden centre, espousing the virtues of a time and attendance system. The President had heard some good and some unflattering things about software automation and wanted to be convinced that if she were to go that route, she had all the “bases covered”. It turned out that one of her business colleagues and CFO of a distribution company was not overly excited about their time current time management solution.

The conversation focused, mainly on the unflattering aspects of automation, because, she wanted to make sure she understood what was involved. On the basis of that conversation, we decided to address some myths from reality when it comes to choosing and deploying the right solution for your business.

Myth: If we choose the solution company ABC is using; chances are we cannot go wrong because they are happy with their solution and they are in the same industry as us.

Reality: Choose a solution and a vendor that you are most comfortable with. More importantly, when choosing make sure the vendor demonstrates an understanding of your needs. Your selection should be predicated on your comfort level and not based on what another company, in your industry is using. A vendor who has taken the time to understand your business can adapt their solution to your specific industry. In short, forego the need to adopt the “Joneses Effect”.

Myth: We will get the best solution for the best price because there is a lot of competition.

Reality: It’s true there are competitors. However, the best price for the best solution does not exist. The old adage that “you get what you pay for” is true with software as it is for the type of shoes that you buy. And, when it comes to time management software, you do get what you pay for. Focus on what you need (with your budget in mind of course) that will help your business. If you are looking for all the bells and whistles at bargain basement prices, chances are, there are not going to be many vendors you can choose from.

Myth: We have been using time sheets for years. Our employees are always paid on time and we have no issues. We are not convinced that automating this process will help us in anyway.

Reality: Spend one day with your HR and/or Payroll Practitioner and observe the steps that they go through in collecting employee hours and then keying that data into your payroll software. We are convinced that after observing how employee hours are collected and then processed, you will ask yourself why is it your company has not adopted an automated time and attendance solution.

ATS is a leading supplier of time and attendance software and services to companies in every industry. ATS TimeWork On-Demand offers a broad functional scope that addresses business challenges, across multiple departments, locations and other areas of responsibility.

To learn more about our solutions, attend our next webinar. To view demonstration, go to our website.

HR Manager, Payroll, Time and Attendance

Sharpen Your Competitive Edge With ATS Time & Attendance

With customers in every industry, ATS market-leading workforce management (WFM) software is a proven solution – built to support North America’s small, mid and largest organizations. Customers utilizing ATS time and attendance solution have access to on-demand data and workforce analytical tools-that helps streamline business processes within their organization.

Leverage ATS Workforce Management Solutions through:

Employee Time and Attendance
Provide your workforce with multiple ways to record and access the data, applications, and analytical tools they need to perform their work as efficiently as possible.

Eradicate paper timesheets and increase productivity with ATS automated time management solution for both HR and Payroll Practitioners
Enable employees to request time-off and see their schedules and accumulated over-time for any given period
Bring your distributed workforce together in an employee interaction center
Provide managers with a self-service portal to track vacation and other time-off requests
Streamline time clock data gathering management to boost resource effectiveness and control labor costs

Payroll and Human Resources Enablers
ATS solutions support business growth with a robust and single system for single and multi-site locations.

Gain instant access to attendance trends with analytic reporting tools
Automate and manage employee accrual benefits
Consolidate manual based process into one automated single platform
Manage payroll processes and compliance in every major country

Analytics and Workforce Planning
Gain up-to-the-minute insight into your workforce with ATS TimeWork On-Demand or our On-Premises application. Plan and forecast better with predictive analytics and improve key performance indicators (KPIs).

Harness Finance, Payroll and HR reporting analytics for informed forecasting workforce planning
Improve decision making with deeper insight into attendance management
Monitor and quantify how human resources strategy aligns with your company’s time and attendance business goals

You can run your business on a foundational workforce management solution that large enterprises and midsize companies trust to manage their business. You can streamline benefits management and simplify the data integration processes. ATS time and attendance solution supports the most complex payroll calculations and HR tasks — from premiums to overtime, job costing and employee scheduling.

With ATS time and attendance businesses can achieve real-time insight and enable operational excellence and innovation for the business processes you need – today, tomorrow and into the foreseeable future.

To learn more connect with us on LinkedIn or our Twitter Feed. You can also download a demonstration or attend one of our webinars.

Sharpen Your Competitive End With ATS Time and Attendance

Employee Scheduling, Job Costing, Overtime, Payroll, Workforce Management Software

The Benefits Of Embracing Technology For Finance Executives

In a recent study by CFO magazine, titled “Supporting Growth with New Technologies” it surveyed the responses of financial executives in the USA and United Kingdom and the response in support of technology was overwhelming. It’s not uncommon to hear of companies using antiquated systems and while they know, that if they were to upgrade, it would help their business process-they remain reluctant to do so.

Sometimes companies are forced to change their current system, because it stopped working all of a sudden. This might cause panic to the finance executive who need a report that highlights labour costs.

Another of CFO.com most recent articles titled “Machine Dreams” makes a direct reference to survey and states in part that; “During the recession, IT was primarily seen as a source of efficiency and cost reduction. But as the economy revives, companies are evaluating how emerging technologies, from Big Data analytics to cloud computing to mobile platforms, can support growth initiatives.”

It also pointed out that “An overwhelming portion of respondents, 77%, agreed that over the next year, their companies will need to make much better use of mobile technology. Senior finance executives also know what they’d like the technology to help them achieve — namely, improved access to and use of financial and business data. A plurality of respondents (37%) said that mobile technology can provide users with better data-query and data-retrieval capabilities than their current systems do.”

ATS TimeWork On-Demand tracks attendance with employee time clocks, reduces manual errors and provides financial executives with reports in real-time. Delivered in the cloud, ATS TimeWork On-Demand is a unified workforce management solution that includes a full range of payroll and time tracking capabilities with real-time business insights, and fully auditable process management.

With ATS TimeWork On-Demand, you can:

Improve workforce productivity by reducing manual and timely administrative tasks.
Minimize business compliance risk by enforcing and tracking complex work and pay-rules compliance including; collective bargaining and government regulations
Control payroll costs with across-the-board work polices and pay rules

So why go with ATS? Because our solutions are completely automated, easy to own and deliver the high-quality information you need to make better decisions.

ATS TimeWork On-Demand offers intuitive, employee and manager self-service features to help you effectively schedule, and pay your workforce. You can find out more through our resource library or download a demonstration from our website.

Employee Scheduling, Employee Time Clocks, Payroll

You Can Stay Connected To Your Business – Anytime, Anywhere

March 27th, 2014 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Employee Scheduling | Payroll | Time and Attendance Blog, Workforce Management Software - (Comments Off)

In today’s business environment, success depends on being able to act on real-time information and address challenges in an instant. With ATS TimeWork On-Demand on your mobile device you can accomplish business tasks, whenever you want and from wherever you want.

ATS TimeWork On-Demand for mobile offers unmatched integration with other third-party applications. TimeWork can help your business become more agile, productive, and competitive. ATS time and attendance module helps payroll managers calculate gross pay quickly and accurately while complying with collective bargaining agreements and other complex regulations, all on one, easy-to-navigate screen.

ATS Workforce Management Software Mobile Helps With:

Visualize key business information with real-time reports
Employees can review their schedules, detail time card and request time-off
Mangers can easily see and respond to employee requests via e-mail alert notifications
Review and approve employee time card and get instant access to key performance indicators (KPI,s)
Create and adjust comprehensive hour & wage rule configuration on the fly

Managers and employees alike can gain access to ATS TimeWork On-Demand through BlackBerry^®, iPhone^®, or Android™ smart phones. ATS TimeWork helps companies get up-to-the-minute access to employee schedules and other aspects of their employee record, while managers gain unprecedented visibility into functional areas of HR, payroll and operations, even on-the-go.

With an ongoing commitment to product enhancements ATS TimeWork On-Demand for mobile, is an industry-leading enterprise time and attendance solution that help companies on the go, reach their potential.

To gain access to our latest time and attendance mobile application, go to our website. You can also follow us on our social media links.

Employee Schedules, Key Performance Indicators, Payroll, Timecard, TimeWork On-Demand

It’s Time To Spring Clean Your Data Gathering Process

With the type of weather we have been experiencing lately, it will be hard to convince even the most optimistic, amongst us, that spring has arrived. The Weather Network Spring Outlook for 2014 will probably drive more of us into hibernation. But with the arrival of spring and inevitable sunny days ahead, isn’t time to take a long look at your current business process and make the change to a more effective way of data gathering?

Here are three data gathering business practices that could be hindering the growth of your company:

Employee Time Capture
Employees are required to fill out daily time sheets with information that include; their in and out times, breaks, overtime, vacation and other leave requests. This document might also require the signature of their reporting manager at the end of the work week.

Tracking Projects
It’s very common for companies within the manufacturing sector to track projects in order, to gain an understanding of their true costs. Asking employees to write job numbers on a crowded time sheet that has already includes; breaks, overtime and other attendance information can lead to errors and confusion for everyone.

Payroll Processing
Once a week or bi-weekly you spend a day or two reading, calculating and then keying information from the time card into an excel spreadsheet. If the information is incorrect, you are left chasing supervisors around to verify the actual start and end time on a time card from two weeks ago. Why bother when you can the entire process can be automated.

So, if you have been sitting on the fence wondering whether the benefits of automating outweigh the cost, well it does. When you consider the painful process of collecting all that data manually-it just means a lost in profits and productivity. Now, just image all of the above mentioned, being done seamlessly and in a fraction of the time through automation.

Here are three benefits to automation:

Streamline Business Process
By automating data collection companies increase efficiency and productivity: An automated time and attendance system will lead to more than 5 percent increase in productivity. When employees are productive-that goes to the bottom line. There is nothing more satisfying to shareholders, CEOs and senior managers when their P&L statement shows an increase in profits.

Decision-Based Analysis
Even something as simple as a tool to view budget vs. actual can have a profound impact on the operations of an organization. Closing month-end with the right financial and analytic reporting tools at their fingertips is the dream of every CFO or financial controller. An integrated workforce management solution complete with standardized reporting and analysis can eliminate unwanted surprise. That means that managers will spend less time figuring which set of numbers to use and more time on analysis, decision-making, and planning.

Attendance On-Demand
Can you image being able to see employee attendance at a glance and on-demand, instead of a paper-based, time consuming process? Just ask an HR or Payroll Manager and you are sure to get a resounding agreement in the form of a high five. You can further boost productivity by giving employees the tools to view their schedules and request time off from their smart phones or tablets. The manager self-service portal sends an instant alert e-mail alert informing them of a pending leave or schedule request.

So, put a spring in your company’s steps by dusting off that time and attendance project you have been yearning to deploy and your business will be all the better for it. To learn more about ATS business automating process, go to our website. You can also join the conversation with our LinkedIn group or better yet, sign up for one of our webinars.

Attendance On-Demand, Leave Requests, Payroll, Self Service, Time and Attendance System

Webinar| How a Cloud-Based Time and Attendance can Drive Business Growth

Topic: How a Cloud-Based Time and Attendance can Drive Business Growth
Date: Friday, March 21, 2014
Time: 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (10:00a.m.-11:00 a.m. Pacific Time)

Getting an accurate view of the business is often a challenge for growing businesses. Data is often fragmented across multiple systems and spreadsheets are time-consuming, error-prone and hard to maintain. ATS TimeWork time and attendance, gives manufacturers the power of real-time reporting and analysis—integrated right into Payroll, ERP and HR applications that managers use every day—to drive true operational insights.

In this live product demo, you will learn how to ATS TimeWork manages the complexities of job tracking, providing anytime anywhere visibility into all aspects of the business.

You will learn how to:

Obtain real-time reporting analytics
Track employee time against jobs
Power of an automated workforce management software vs spreadsheets

Who Should Participate
Plant Managers, VPs of Finance, Financial Controllers, HR and Payroll Managers

To register, go to our website.

Cloud Based Time and Attendance, ERP, Job Tracking, Payroll, Workforce Management Software

Does Your Corporate Culture Hinder Efforts To Optimize Workforce Management?

March 13th, 2014 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Employee Time Attendance | Payroll | Workforce Management Solutions - (Comments Off)

Whether you’re a CEO, VP of Finance, VP of Operations, VP of HR or Director of Payroll Operations you are measured, in large part, by the effect the operational effectiveness of your department and the people who report to you, has on the bottom line. It is important, that senior executives and managers alike, figure out how the effectiveness and a variety of areas up to and including; technology change, business process change and/or employee culture change can impact their operations. Management should prepare by arming themselves with tools that will help their companies grow in an ever increasing global and competitive market.

ATS workforce management solution can help companies sustain continual business improvement, while increasing productivity gains. If your company has not taken advantage of the benefits of a workforce management solution, it’s not too late to assess its potential. ATS workforce management solution has a decisive and positive impact on the long term viability of an organization

ATS workforce management solution addresses critical business requirements by aligning HR and payroll related activities to organizational business goals.

Businesses using ATS employee time and attendance solution can gain strategic insight into the strength of the workforce anomalies, to determine where change is needed, which positively impacts the bottom line. The ability to track employee attendance in real-time get up-to-the-minute labour analytics to support strategic initiatives is the key to business success.

To learn more, join one of our monthly webinars go to our website. You can also view a demonstration or download a product brochure.

Employee Time and Attendance, Payroll, Workforce Management Solution

Employee Time Management Solution That Will Bring A Smile To Your Face

Don’t Bite Off More Than You Can Chew

Attendance Software: Myth VS Reality

Sharpen Your Competitive Edge With ATS Time & Attendance

The Benefits Of Embracing Technology For Finance Executives

You Can Stay Connected To Your Business – Anytime, Anywhere

It’s Time To Spring Clean Your Data Gathering Process

Does Your Corporate Culture Hinder Efforts To Optimize Workforce Management?

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