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How Can You Optimise the Right Assets to Gain a Competitive AdvantageThe Kronos® for Logistics and Distribution Solution Guide outlines the assets and strategies necessary to gain a competitive advantage.
Learn the key areas in which Kronos for Logistics and Distribution can help your organisation achieve its business goals, including: controlling labour costs, delivering quality service, increasing workforce productivity, and minimising safety and compliance risk.
Gain a Competitive Edge with Kronos for Distribution and LogisticsLooking for new ways to drive profitability? More effective workforce management is the place to start. After all, your workforce is your greatest asset; when employees deliver quality service to your customers, profitability follows. Optimise employee productivity and control costs, and you’re able to gain a competitive edge.
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Research
The Perfect Labour Management StormA confluence of issues is creating a perfect storm that is putting more pressure than ever on logistics and distribution organisations. It's driving up costs, eroding already thin margins, and putting a vice grip on available capacity. But there is shelter for those who seek it.
Uncovering Hidden Costs and Unseen ImpactsThis Logistics Management report reveals fleet operators’ beliefs on how CSA guidelines, changes to the HOS plan, and rising fuel costs have added to the ever-expanding list of labour-related challenges. Read how optimising the workforce can help relieve the pressure to cut costs, improve operational efficiencies, increase truck and fleet safety, and maintain the highest possible service levels even as the pool of qualified drivers shrinks.
How Automated Schedule Design and Management Benefits Both Employers and EmployeesScheduling can be a complicated task for employers, especially those organisations with 24-hour operations. However, with well-designed schedules and related policies and tools such as electronic schedule programs, organisations can positively impact employee and organisational outcomes such as job attitudes, work stress, and turnover.
Aberdeen Group - Workforce Scheduling 2011 - Automation Drives Accuracy, Efficiency and Business OutcomesThis report, based on data from more than 200 organisations, builds on Aberdeen's previous research by examining how best-in-class organisations leverage workforce scheduling capabilities and technologies to impact organisational goals. Analysis of the survey data, collected in 2011, builds the business case for automation, empowering employees through shift bidding/swapping, and taking advantage of scheduling optimisation tools.
Reaping the Rewards of Flexible WorkingUsing Workforce Management Systems to Support Flexible Working. This short paper outlines the benefits of flexible working, your obligations as an employer and the tools available to ensure that a flexible working environment is easy to administer to ensure that both the employee and employer get the greatest benefit from flexible working.
Nucleus Research Note - Kronos Managed Services: Flexible IT Options Yield Productivity BenefitsNucleus interviewed Kronos customers to better understand how they are benefitting from managed services such as hosting and application management. Nucleus found that organisations are improving IT productivity, user productivity, and system upgrades when they outsource these responsibilities with Kronos Managed Services and the cost is competitive when compared with internal IT support costs and other third-party options. It’s a win-win for organisations: they can free up IT staff for more strategic initiatives and save money.
Flexing The WorkforceThe first step in flexing your workforce is effectively measuring your workforce. Kronos has developed a key performance indicator that measures the workforce, called Overall Labor Effectiveness™ (OLE). This gives your organisation the ability to analyse the impact of both direct and indirect workforce output.
Your ERP System is LeakingDiscover how Kronos can help you avoid a costly, time-consuming and inefficient ERP implementation and recover as much as 2% of your total labour costs currently lost to fraud and waste each year.
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Media Coverage
Management In Practice 5th September 2011Stressed workers admit to 'playing hooky' - Flexible working hours could reduce the number of employees taking sick days when they are not actually sick, a survey shows.
Business Wire 1st September 2011Organisations looking to more effectively manage the worldwide problem of absenteeism are increasingly turning to Kronos Incorporated for their absence management needs, as illustrated by a 28-percent increase in absence management product revenue. The easy-to-own, automated solution from Kronos® helps organisations manage planned and unplanned absences, and reduces administrative headaches and compliance risk associated with specialised leave laws.
IT Briefing 2nd September 2011A new global survey commissioned by The Workforce Institute™ at Kronos Incorporated and conducted by Harris Interactive reveals that employees in Australia, Canada, China, France, India, Mexico, the U.K, and the U.S, have all called in sick to work when they were not actually sick. The Kronos Global Absence survey looks at which regions have the highest rates of absenteeism, how the rest of the workforce is affected when employees call in sick, and what employers can do to better manage the problem.
IT Briefing 1st September 2011Organisations looking to more effectively manage the worldwide problem of absenteeism are increasingly turning to Kronos Incorporated for their absence management needs, as illustrated by a 28-percent increase in absence management product revenue. The easy-to-own, automated solution from Kronos® helps organisations manage planned and unplanned absences, and reduces administrative headaches and compliance risk associated with specialised leave laws.
IT Briefing 4th August 2011Kronos Incorporated today announced financial results, company advancements, and customer successes for its third quarter of Fiscal 2011. Kronos® revenues for the quarter were $210.8 million. Earnings before interest, tax, and amortisation (EBITA) were $60.5 million.
IT Briefing 1st August 2011Kronos Incorporated today announced that version 6.2 of its Workforce Central® suite has been certified by SAP. Through the integration provided by Workforce Central with the SAP ERP Human Capital Manageme (SAP ERP HCM) solutions, Kronos® makes it easy for organisations to extend the value of their ERP investment.
Talented Workers Demand Tailored SolutionsThis article from Payroll World, April 2011 explores how employees are becoming more demanding, and certainly more discerning, when it comes to their employment. And because they are more engaged, employers must find tailored solutions to meet the demands of talented workers. Simon Macpherson, Kronos UK comments on how workforce management systems and effective scheduling can boost employee morale.
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