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ATS Workforce Management Solution Helps Retail and Hospitality Industries to Thrive

By 2025 consumer attitudes towards retail will have dramatically changed. The rapid growth of robotics, cloud and artificial intelligence will permeate the retail and hospitality experience for both consumer and stakeholders. Anticipating consumer trends and deploying innovations that enhance employee and consumer experience and, simplify business operations will be vital to the long-term health and sustainability of retail and hospitality.

ATS Workforce Management for Retail & Hospitality provides these industries with an open, integrated, and best-of-breed application in the cloud, with state-of-art data collectors engineered to empower commerce. With ATS Workforce Management, organizations can streamline payroll costs and increase productivity, such as with a best-of-breed time and attendance, that’s demand-driven scheduling, and absence management software tools. Grocery operations, pharmaceutical, hospitality chains and retailers use ATS Workforce Management solutions to anticipate market changes, simplify businesses operations, and boost their bottom-line.

ATS Workforce Management Solution Helps the Retail and Hospitality Industry Thrive

Solution Benefits Include:

Employee Scheduling- ATS Workforce Scheduling, allows managers to easily leverage workforce data through an intuitive cloud-based interface, thus streamlining the scheduling process of their employees with roles-based self-service tools.

Workforce Analytics and Business Intelligence- ATS Intelligence (BI) analysis covers the macro picture down to the operating, financial and valuation information-and provides in-depth and economic factors that can impact decision-making.

Digital API Platform and Data Integration- ATS data integration tool, enables users to transfer data from one data source (such as text file, API, CSV or other data files) to an output destination. That output destination can be a text file, database, XML document, or another suite application. The key component of ATS Integration Manager is the interface that contains a set of steps, for the data transfer. By utilizing ATS data integration platform, companies can integrate to existing, ERP, Talent Management, HR, Payroll and CRM applications.

Budgeting and Forecasting- ATS Workforce Management for Retail and Hospitality, helps you eliminate costs, time, and errors with proper budgeting and forecasting on both short and long-term projections. The budgeting and forecasting module, allow you to integrate annual and periodic forecasting with weekly workforce management execution.

Next-Generation Data Collection- With ATS Workforce Management for Retail and Hospitality, you automate employee time and attendance processes to reduce payroll costs, comply with collective bargaining agreements and adhered to regulatory compliance. Some of ATS employee data collection include: face recognition time clocks, biometric hand punch, proximity and barcode time clocks and computer-based time clocks. ATS Workforce Management validates the collection of employee data, with up-to-the-minute reporting, to reduce overpayments.

ATS Workforce Management Solution Helps the Retail and Hospitality Industry Thrive

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An Application That’s Easy To Use, Will Increase User Adoption

Ease-of-use, intuitive and simple are the buzzwords applied to many of today’s applications by vendors in the; time and attendance, to enterprise resource planning (ERP), human resources information systems (HRIS), payroll and/or human capital management applications (HCM) space. However, with the pace of technology and all that it encompasses including; machine learning, artificial intelligence and cloud analytics–some of today’s software solutions are far from simple.

An Application That’s Easy To Use, Will Increase User Adoption

Is it possible to have a solution that has the best of what’s today’s advanced technology offers, and at the same time, is easy to use? Well, if you are using an ATS time and attendance solution, the simple answer is yes, you can get both. Whether you are an advanced user or a novice, ATS time and attendance solutions gives you the best of both worlds.

Benefits Include:

Features: Are very important in order to make a solution easy to use without heavy customizations that create unwanted barriers to further innovation. ATS time and attendance is powerful, yet user-friendly, with real-time automated tasks, and gives you access to your workforce – wherever you are in the world.
Cloud Computing: Built on a solid cloud platform, ATS time and attendance enables HR and payroll practitioners to streamline labour costs and enhance visibility, accuracy, and control over workforce costs. ATS time and attendance cloud updates, and intuitive compliance dashboards, makes it easy to comply with federal, provincial and state work-rules. And, the added flexibility, of the ATS cloud computing platform enables enterprises of all size to handle the most rigorous requirements around collective bargaining agreements.
Analytics and Business Intelligence: ATS time and attendance supports the full HR and time tracking journey, from on boarding, to data migration, and

on-boarding, to analytics that will turn the tide of your business and will boost growth and productivity– all derived, from a modern user interface.

Want to know more? Go to our website and to get access to bi-monthly webinars, download a demonstration or contact us at 866.294.2467.

Analytics, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Human Capital Management (HCM), Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS), Payroll

What Modern Workforce Management Means For Your Business

Since business runs on talent, growing companies need effective workforce management solutions that work, and work well. Manual calculation of employee hours and spreadsheets can result in costly over or under-staffing and unpaid overtime hours, which in turn, can lead to low staff morale. As a business grows, it demands more effective business automation tools—without adding unnecessary maintenance, deployment time, and cost. Organizations need solutions that speeds up HR processes and systems so they are strong enough to meet workforce needs today, but innovative enough to adapt in the future.

What Modern Workforce Management Means For Your Business

If you have already made workforce adjustments to proactively prepare for the upcoming labour changes by lawmakers across the North American, you might be fine. But, what if you haven’t and you are still scrambling to deploy a time and attendance that can adapt to upcoming employment standards act and other workforce regulations?

Here’s what you can expect from an ATS TimeWork OnDemand Solution

Simplify scheduling tasks with ATS Workforce Planning tool — to create and manage schedules anywhere, from any web-enabled device
Improve staff accountability – easily assign and track job costing projects
Enable employees to request time-off, check vacation balances and banked time, from anytime, anywhere — clock-in/out, and view messages left by management on any mobile device
Reduce labour costs through utilization of ATS Forecasting & Budgeting module so you can gain better control over your business by knowing, at any time if you are running over or under budget
Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements through automated alerts— to managers, when overtime or other thresholds are at risk

ATS TimeWork OnDemand gives growing businesses the critical information they need to optimize their workforce. ATS TimeWork OnDemand delivers science infused workforce management— that results in real-time business intelligence designed to— inform decisions and provide a high return on investment.

To learn more, go to our website and download a demonstration, or call 866.294.2467.

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HR Managers Want Simplicity And Flexibility With Their Software

AT ATS, we believe in the power of a time and attendance solution that does not require rocket scientists in order for it to showcase its effectiveness. After all, it was designed as simple and flexible management solution to help businesses streamline their everyday practices and improve overall efficiency.

While HR and payroll practitioners are typically the ones who manage employee time and attendance data, they also know they are also acutely aware that operational managers want a system that is easy to use- that gives them instant access to view employee data.

So, what does a flexible HR ATS time and attendance solution look like?

21st Century Data Capture- Real-time automation and accelerated processes for workforce planning, employee time tracking, forecasting and budgeting and absence management.

Workforce and HR Analytics-Gain a better understanding of your people, enhance strategic workforce planning, and improve performance – with real-time workforce and HR analytics, intuitive dashboards, and award-wining business intelligence from ATS TimeWork OnDemand.

Payroll and HR Functionality-You can simplify your company’s HR administrative policies, with ATS human resource information system (HRIS) module. ATS HR module aids in the tracking of accrual benefits and payroll processes – thereby improving contingent workforce management.

ATS empowers HR managers, – with its powerful cloud-based Workforce Management (WFM) software that gives companies access to their data in real-time. ATS cloud-based workforce management solution supports the needs of single site, multi-generational, and global workforces.

To download a white paper on ATS TimeWork OnDemand, go to our website.

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Got Your Head In The Cloud? That’s A Good Start

If you have not felt the impact of the Cloud within your business industry, then it’s only a matter of time. The adoption of cloud has moved from a nice to have to, we absolutely need this application to keep improve operations and stay ahead of our competitors. Cloud applications used to be available to only large organizations but now, many small and mid-size businesses are deploying it, to take advantage of its many benefits.

If you are customer of ATS you have been experiencing easy access to workforce analytics, lower operational costs, reduction in IT complexity and real-time business intelligence. And if you are business who has been contemplating moving to the cloud, then you are in for a treat. Here is some of what you can expect:

Got Your Head In The Cloud? That’s A Good Start

Ease-Of-Use
ATS TimeWork OnDemand offers best-in-class software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform with enhanced business intelligence that enables businesses, to access information from any smartphone or tablet. That’s right! You can now access reports like never before on an intuitive dashboard designed, with the today’s workforce in mind.

Happy Users
Once your administrative users are familiar with the product, training other users is easy. In fact, they can show your plant managers, finance and other supervisors how to access their own reports, view key performance indicators (KPI’s), forecasting and dashboard tools. Essentially this means, operational users no longer have to rely on IT to create reports. And yes, you can also say good-bye to those Excel spreadsheets that you created to track; sick days, overtime and other personal time off requests. In the end, you are replacing confusion and head scratching with a robust and well designed user dashboards.

Now You Can Have Your Kumbaya Moment
Finding reliable, easy to use, and built-to-last workforce management software has its own challenges. ATS TimeWork OnDemand modern technology transforms your data in a format that makes sense to your business, regardless of industry and allows seamlessly integration to: Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS), Talent Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Payroll applications. With ATS TimeWork OnDemand, you are always up-to-date with the latest cloud innovations-and, that makes for a happy business with lots of kumbaya moments.

ATS breadth of industry expertise and innovation is second to none. As a leading workforce management solution provider, ATS TimeWork OnDemand allows organizations to gain operational excellence—that aligns, HR and payroll business processes while supporting local—and multi-jurisdictional compliance across various countries.

Got Your Head In The Cloud? That’s A Good Start

Is your business is ready to join the cloud movement? You can download the app from our website or join our bi-weekly webcasts to learn from ATS workforce management industry experts and customers, in an informal setting to learn about the benefits of a cloud computing technology like ATS TimeWork OnDemand.

ATS TimeWork OnDemand, Business Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Payroll, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Talent Management

Does Your Current Time and Attendance Solution Give You The Warm And Fuzzy?

Choosing the right time and attendance solution is like finding your perfect match, or in business terms, a solution that properly aligns with your company’s requirements. And, just as important, is to ensure you get the right results so that can enjoy many happy Valentines-anything short of that is a clear recipe for heartbreak.

So, in the spirit of Valentines Day, your time and attendance solution should be one that can;

Does Your Current Time and Attendance Solution Give You The Warm And Fuzzy?

Grow with you-who does not want a solution that’s going to scale with their business? As your business grows, you want a partner that understands the ebbs and flows of your organization, and can provide modules that matches with the growth.

Provide Enhanced Reporting and Analytics-It’s critical that your time and attendance solution can provide business intelligence data, how and when you need it. After all, your business is dependent on getting the right information at the right time.

Show Flexibility– If you want to transition from an on premise to the cloud, your time and attendance solution should have that ability. And from data migration to forecasting and budgeting, employee scheduling, job costing and benefit accruals-that’s flexibility at its core.

In short, your time and attendance should become an integral part of your business. And, that is what should give you the warm and fuzzes

Happy Valentines Day!

To learn more about ATS Time and Attendance call a representative at 866.294.2467. And to view a demonstration or attend one of our bi-weekly webinars register on our website.

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CEOs Are Shifting Their Organizations Towards The Cloud

It wasn’t too long ago that getting CEOs to adopt the cloud took a lot of work, and many of these executives who resisted adopting a time and attendance in the cloud had good reasons, some of which included; a general fear of the unknown, privacy and availability of their data to name a few. It’s also noteworthy that some of the initial fear that senior executives had, emanated, from some IT personnel who were not yet comfortable with the idea of having data stored outside of the company’s domain. Eventually, as it became clear that migrating to the cloud offered superior advantages and streamlined costs, many CEOs began to pay attention- and embrace the technology, along with their IT personnel.

CEOs Are Shifting Their Organizations Towards The Cloud

If you are still on the fence about a cloud time and attendance here, are five outstanding benefits that might just change your mind:

Software Updates-Using a time and attendance that’s in the cloud means you no longer have to do software updates and patches. ATS applies updates to the application with no disruption to your daily operations. Your company can spend its time on other important matters, like growing the business.

Access the Application from Anywhere-With ATS TimeWork OnDemand— whether users are on a desktop computer or mobile device, the cloud provides instant access to data anytime, anywhere there is an Internet connection, 24/7 365 days a year.

Reduce Operating Costs –Adopting the cloud, means a company no longer have to worry about software equipment (like a Server), licensing and maintenance fees.

Easy Integration to ERP, Payroll, HR, Talent Management and CRM-ATS TimeWork OnDemand has a built-in integrator that’s compatible to all third-party applications for the purpose of transferring data. So, if you currently key employee hours manually from a spreadsheet into a payroll application, you can breathe a little easier, ATS TimeWork OnDemand makes that a thing of the past.

Cross-Functional Reporting and Business Intelligence-ATS TimeWork OnDemand allows you to align all levels of your organization with up-to-the-minute decision-making reporting. Senior executives, managers, and employees automatically see cross-functional analytics for historical, current, and forward-looking insights. ATS TimeWork OnDemand reporting tools provides financial data for a deeper view into your business.

ATS TimeWork OnDemand provides organizations with a best-of-breed workforce management solution that leverages robust cloud infrastructure technology, to deliver solutions that address specific industry challenges.

To learn more about ATS TimeWork OnDemand, go to our website. You can also register one of our bi-weekly webinars and hear from existing customers how they managed the transition from spreadsheets to cloud computing TimeWork OnDemand.

Analytics, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, CRM, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), HR, Payroll, Talent Management, Time and Attendance, TimeWork OnDemand, Workforce Management Software

Is The Demise Of Manufacturing A Reality Or Overblown Rhetoric

Depending on who you talk to, manufacturing has been on the decline for the last 15 years and counting and there is no end in sight. But despite the doom and gloom, The Institute for Supply Management’s report, which is highlighted by Industry Week, begs to differ. And, many of today’s manufacturing companies, especially the ones who came out of the 2009 recession, albeit leaner, in terms of workforce and production process are likely breathing a sigh of relief at this piece of news. Michelle Jamrisko article for Bloomberg on state of manufacturing, states in part;

“Manufacturing expanded in December at the fastest pace in two years, reflecting firmer output and the biggest pickup in orders growth since August 2009. The Institute for Supply Management said Tuesday that its index increased to 54.7, the fourth straight advance, from 53.2 a month earlier. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey called for 53.8. Readings above 50 indicate growth. The ISM’s measure of orders surged 7.2 points, while its gauge of prices paid for materials climbed to the highest level since June 2011.”

Is The Demise Of Manufacturing A Reality Or Overblown Rhetoric

The world of manufacturing is constantly evolving as it has had to keep pace with stiffer competitor and tighter margins. And, so in order to increase profits, many of today’s successful manufacturers have had to embraced cloud computing, robotics and business intelligence thus enabling them, to streamline production flows – and ultimately reduce their costs.

So, as the manufacturing sector continues to evolve here are three trends that will continue to dominate that industry in 2017:

Cloud Computing
Major new technologies especially ones built on the cloud will be take precedence over on premise applications by manufacturers. Deploying a cloud-based solution provides a rapid return on investment, and streamlines payroll costs across an entire supply chain.

Predictive Analytics for Real-Time Decision-Making
Today, unlike several years ago, manufacturers have access to a wide array of analytic and Big Data tools at the push of a button– that can be hugely valuable for business decision-making and process enhancements when used correctly. From budgeting and forecasting to employee production scheduling and benefit accruals – these tools, allow manufacturers to harness data properly and with ease and efficiency.

New Technology and Innovation
Traditional, version-based time and attendance solutions prohibited organizations and their users from sharing freely and collaborating, because the data always resided on a Server and it was incapable of integrating to other applications-thus, creating nightmares for users. Workforce management software built for the cloud is the network of the future. Open-mind manufacturers will continue to move away from Server-based software solutions and instead opt for cloud computing solutions—which is the future of software deployment.

ATS Workforce Management for Manufacturing is industry-built and helps drive business outcomes by engaging your employees, streamlining payroll costs, increasing productivity, and minimizing compliance risk. With ATS Workforce Management for Manufacturing, your business has access to a proven cloud platform that is secure, scalable, and mobile — allowing you to do business when or where you choose to access its power.

To learn about ATS Workforce Management for Manufacturing, go to our website, you can also download a demonstration and see why many of today’s fortune 500 companies choose ATS.

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Retailers Are Embracing ATS TimeWork OnDemand To Improve Operational Excellence

The retail industry has had to adapt to numerous changes in the past several decades. And, with shrinking market-share, retailers now have to grapple with tight margins, technological innovation, constant changes in consumer habits and unprecedented growth in global markets. These changes, along with cost containment and increasingly fierce competition, have fueled the need for continuous improvement, flexible operations, and availability of information on demand.

ATS TimeWork OnDemand empowers retail organizations to modernize their approach to employee time and attendance. ATS TimeWork offers a robust, up-to-the-minute responsive cloud infrastructure, a sophisticated development platform and a rich portfolio of workforce analytics, and 21^st century mobile services. With ATS TimeWork OnDemand, retail operations from; Food Manufacturing, Fashion and Apparel, Pharmacy, Department Stores and Home Goods, Grocery, Hospitality, Food and Beverage to drive sales and optimize business operations through analytics insights that fuel personalized merchandising for their customers.

Retailers Are Embracing ATS TimeWork OnDemand To Improve Operational Excellence

Here are three examples of how retailers are using ATS TimeWork OnDemand to improve productivity, streamline payroll costs and, at the same time, stay ahead of the competition:

Deployment Platform-With TimeWork OnDemand, organizations can choose from integrated always-on, dedicated and local deployment model that complements, and includes Internet of Things (IoT), and mobile-ready services.

Analytics and Data Science-By using proven cognitive analytic solutions from ATS TimeWork OnDemand to tap into cutting-edge employee data to spur decision making capabilities with an advanced time and attendance retail application that’s readily accessible, and provides powerful and insightful intelligence like never before.

Flexible and easy Access to the Cloud-ATS TimeWork OnDemand is a modern API-based, open-source, and collaborative web application—that quickly scales to meet seasonal or event demands through an easy-to-use customer portal or auto-scaling capabilities. The advantages of retail operations using ATS TimeWork OnDemand includes; upgrades with minimal downtime and interruption, and the ability to access supercomputing—on demand on a massive scale that transforms business intelligence and up-to-the-minute business decision making.

Want to learn how ATS TimeWork OnDemand can help your business realize the value of cloud time and attendance solution? Go to our website or call us at 866.294.2467.

ATS TimeWork OnDemand, Business Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), Manufacturing, Retail, Time and Attendance, Workforce Analytics

Are Your Spreadsheets Giving You Headaches?

March 16th, 2016 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Software-as-a-Service (saas) Workforce Management Software | Time and Attendance Canada | Time and Attendance On-Demand | Workforce Management Solutions - (Comments Off)

If your business is an advocate of spreadsheets for tracking employee time, allocating vacation and statutory holidays, it might be time for you to take a hard look at how this time tracking methodology may be making things more difficult than they need to be. The manual calculation of employee hours and data entry into your payroll, HR or ERP system can cause undue headaches for the even most seasoned Payroll, or HR manager. The end result could lead to, inaccurate pay and missed overtime on employee’s paycheques–or to put it mildly a disaster waiting to happen.

Are Your Spreadsheets Giving You Headaches?

Here’s a break down of some the benefits of what an ATS Time and Attendance Solution can deliver, thus, eradicating payroll day submission headaches:

Capturing Employee Data In Real-Time
Imagine how easy and simple it would be if you could capture employee hours as soon as they punched in out? HR and payroll departments would be doing back flips with joy, because that would mean they now have quicker access to data to make quick decisions and complete tasks. By integrating all data sources into one central source of record with the help of a Business Management Solution, employees can find everything they need, whenever and wherever they need it.

Spreadsheets Inhibits Productivity
Spreadsheets are time-consuming and deprives your company of productivity gains. Various studies report that nearly 9 out of 10 spreadsheets, a whopping (88%) contain errors. A majority of these errors were from human error and could have been avoided. An ATS Time and Attendance solution removes manual time collection of out the equation, and in doing so, reducing errors and streamline your workflow and increases productivity.

On-The-Spot Information That Will Help Your Business Grow
By and large, having access to intuitive business intelligence is the dream of every organization. ATS Time and Attendance embedded business intelligence tools will help you to perform efficiently and make based on the on-spot-information. With ATS Time and Attendance your organization can manage future contingencies and be ready when business condition changes.

As financial consolidation of businesses becomes more prevalent and complex, automating employee time becomes even more important. ATS scaleable Time and Attendance Solution will dramatically improve your decision-making capabilities and support your business growth by helping you to automate, collaborate and analyze all employee data, across multiple locations, countries and the enterprise at large.

To learn more, visit our website and download a demonstration of ATS Time and Attendance Solution. And to reach an account executive by phone, call: 866.294.2467.

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ATS Workforce Management Solution Helps Retail and Hospitality Industries to Thrive

What Modern Workforce Management Means For Your Business

HR Managers Want Simplicity And Flexibility With Their Software

Got Your Head In The Cloud? That’s A Good Start

Retailers Are Embracing ATS TimeWork OnDemand To Improve Operational Excellence

Are Your Spreadsheets Giving You Headaches?

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