• Time & Attendance (T&A)* - This module allows users to clock in and out of work orders and work centers and in and out of the time clock from any terminal connected to the network.  It will verify that the job is active and that the work center is part of the selected work order.  This verification helps to ensure that the created records are as accurate as possible.
  
  The standard reports in this module provide information by employee for a selected date range.  In addition to total hours worked, users are able to see which work orders the employee worked in and which employees worked on a selected work order.
  
  
• Job Costing* - This module provides a quick reporting analysis of performance on a selected work order.  After entering expected setup and run times into each step in the routing, users are able to compare both budgeted and actual material and labor (actual labor reporting requires the T&A module).   Because production workers punch in by work center, users are able to see details of which work centers required more time than expected so the quote or process can be changed accordingly.
  
  The standard reports allow a more detailed analysis of labor, material, and overall performance.

NE Company converted to a hybrid labor tracking system.  Most employees had access to at least one terminal for data collection and punched in and out of jobs directly into the integrated module.  For production workers not able to use a terminal for data collection, they recorded their times and projects on paper using the job travelers as a guide to know which work orders and work centers to use.  At the end of the shift, their information was entered into the system.

Using the standard reports and a few custom reports, NE Company was able to not only see how they were doing on each job, but analyze the results of process changes to ensure they were getting the desired benefit.  Within six months, they were able to identify two customers that were consistently unprofitable.