Month: March 2014

Shop Floor Data Capture: Enabling continuous improvement

If within your organisation you would like to implement a formal lean or six sigma program having accurate data from your manufacturing process is key. Invoices and purchase orders lay the trail for analysing your inventory costs. The costs associated with labour needs to also be collected.

It is a frequently cited management truism that “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” From the earliest days of the quality movement within manufacturing, from Taylor to Ford, or Deming and Shingo, and on to Womack and Jones – the simple premise of “measuring everything” has been at the root of continuous improvement. Without a vehicle for enabling Shop Floor Data Capture, however, the amount of labour expended in any manufacturing process is either subjectively measured or likely to experience wide variation and anomalous data.

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Employee Self Service with Ceequel Takes Old School Punch Clocks to a New Dimension

The day and age of punch clocks has come and gone with many business now choosing to switch out the old system for new improved web based time and attendance software. The new system not only allows employees to clock in and out but also containes countless new features for employees and employers to enjoy and appreciate on a day to day basis. Ceequel time and attendance is a web based reporting solution for employee self service that can save your company time and money.

Some things in life and pop culture alike are indeed timeless. Fans of the old Bugs Bunny cartoons from decades ago know this to be true, because watching some of those old episodes is still enough to make even the most uptight among us fall of the couch laughing on occasion. Take, for instance, the old cartoon with Sam the Sheepdog and Ralph the Coyote (a.k.a. “Wile E. Coyote”) reporting for work at a field full of sheep. Sam’s job is to guard the herd and Ralph’s job consequently is to attempt to abduct the herd. The episode begins and ends with them punching in and out of a time clock mechanically fastened to a tree, which reports their attendance. The punching serves as a double meaning here, whereas as soon as they “punch in”, Sam commences with “punching in” Ralph’s face… classic cartoon comedy.

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Reducing the Workload for Human Resources

Two of the most important tasks a human resource department is the maintenance of all company employees and the successful implementation of new starters. Both of these aspects require HR personnel to spend valuable company time completing mundane tasks. With Ceequel HR management these functions can actually be automated reducing time and saving money.

Two of the responsibilities of Human Resources (HR) are maintaining the organisation chart of a company and successfully bringing in new starters. Both aspects of HR involve personnel spending time on mundane details. With Ceequel these HR management functions can be automated reducing the time spent. In addition process improvements are observed.

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Syncing Time and Attendance Records

The best way for your business to enhance their bookkeeping and accounting is by syncing your time and attendance records between both departments. Syncing the data between the two makes sure every single one of your employees is paid on time and correctly every pay period.

Syncing Time and Attendance records is often the best way for a business to enhance their bookkeeping and accounting. Offering jobs to people in the community is a beautiful thing for a business to do. However, those jobs must pay well and pay properly to every employee.

With a time and attendance program that is synced to the company’s accounting or payroll system, every employee can be paid exactly what they are owed every pay period. This is especially helpful for the business owner who is working their business alone. The time and attendance software can transmit employee information to the business’ accounting or payroll program.

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