Labor Performance

An organization's most valuable asset is its workforce. In some businesses, labor expenses can comprise a substantial portion of a product's cost. With the Macola ES Labor Performance (L/P) solution, you will thoroughly understand the costs and profitability of your products while evaluating the performance of each employee and their supervisor(s). The bottom line? You get detailed cost visibility, spur productivity and have the control necessary to generate greater profits for your company.

Benefits of Macola ES L/P:

• Tracks and costs all labor into direct and indirect status
• Provides a robust time and attendance solution that can integrate with even higher-end solutions as well
• Handles piece pay, incentives earning with direct integration to Exact's payroll solution and external payroll services
• Captures regular, overtime and special wages for improved costing and visibility of where and when premium pay is incurred
• Captures actual labor costs related to work-in-process goods
• Handles Crew reporting flexibly and comprehensively
• Provides for parallel process reporting
• Includes the Macola manufacturing data collection interface that can integrate with 3rd party time keeping and data collection solutions or an already integrated solution from Exact, including hardware

Macola ES L/P is both a labor analysis package and a data collection package. The module helps reduce labor costs by providing information on how employees are spending their time on any given day, tracking the activities performed by employees and measuring the productivity associated with that activity.

The ability to view this information by employee, job, shop order, work center, crew and/or employee allows supervisors to measure productivity, identify variances and take corrective action. The Macola ES L/P module maintains each employee's standard hours earned and direct hours actually worked in production to measure productivity. Macola ES L/P also maintains indirect hours (non-production time) worked by an employee to determine the percentage of direct hours to indirect hours, measuring what percentage of the employee's time is utilized performing value added work. Total hours are tracked and compared to standard hours earned to measure how effectively labor resources are being managed.

Labor Analysis Reports

• Employee Analysis reports analyze the performance of both the employee and the shop supervisor
• Labor History reports are used to evaluate employee performance based on efficiency, productivity and direct hours worked
• Work Center Capacity reports show how efficiently particular work centers are being used to produce products

Labor Transaction Processing

Macola ES L/P is used to enter and edit labor transactions to record the elapsed time and quantity of work completed at each operation. To minimize the volume of data entry, the module allows you to report labor by work cell or crew so that the same data does not need to be repetitively entered.

Labor transactions can be entered through Macola ES's labor transaction application, or transaction entry can be automated by integrating an electronic data collection system to Macola ES L/P via an ASCII interface. In addition to tracking labor, Macola ES L/P provides the means to track the flow of materials by shop order as work is completed through operations. In an ideal data collection system, each operation or work cell has a bar code terminal reader, where workers record starting times, ending times and the quantity completed at each operation.

Module Prerequisites

The Macola ES Shop Floor Control, Inventory Control and Manufacturing Cost Accounting modules are required to run Macola ES L/P.

Macola ES Labor Performance provides the ability to leverage your firm's most valuable asset for efficient operational control and maximum profitability.