Kronos® India today announced availability of version 6.1 of its Workforce Central® suite in India. Workforce Central 6.1 provides executives with greater visibility into their global workforce, enabling them to identify critical business issues and empowering them with the tools to make good informed workforce management decisions enroute to achieving their ultimate business goals.
Workforce Central 6.1 includes hundreds of features and ease-of-use enhancements and underscores Kronos’ commitment to deliver solutions that enable organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity.
James Thomas, Country Manager, India said, “At Kronos we’ve developed a unique perspective on what it takes for an organization to successfully deploy a workforce management solution. Our belief is that integrated workforce management in real time doesn’t have to be so hard, and that organizations shouldn’t have to trade functionality for simplicity. Workforce Central strikes an ideal balance of deep functionality combined with a range of ease-of-deployment, ease-of-use and cost-of-ownership enhancements.”
Mr. Thomas commented about the product’s availability in India, one of the fastest-growing economies in the world with a labor force of 509 million. Mr. Thomas added, “We bring a unique perspective to the Indian market & Organizations in India stands to benefit greatly from the value that Workforce Central 6.1 delivers. We help organizations control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity all at the same time centrally in real time. These are important business issues in normal times, and even more during tough economic times.”
Workforce Central 6.1 supports India’s Factories Act & Shops and Establishment Act, whereby manufacturers and services organizations are required to maintain time-related registers and statutory reports for employees. To help organizations comply with these regulations and minimize compliance risk in a simple and configurable out-of-the-box way, Workforce Central 6.1 provides legislated working time reports, as well as new features to monitor overtime and time-based pay codes on a daily and hourly basis making it easier for organizations to manage their workforce in compliance with to Indian labor practices.
Additional enhancements in Workforce Central 6.1 include:
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Enhanced ERP integration
Kronos delivers a completely configurable solution with full workforce management functionality out-of-the-box. Configurable software equals fast, low-cost, and predictable implementations that save time and money.
Recognizing the inherent deficiencies of ERP-based solutions, more and more organizations are turning to Kronos. In response to this growing demand, Workforce Central 6.1 introduces Workforce Integration Manager™, a new integration tool which makes it easier for organizations to integrate their Kronos applications with existing ERP, payroll, and human resources systems.
Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Kronos invested heavily in 6.1 to expand the list of supported third-party tools, streamline on-going maintenance, and significantly reduce the size of its application footprint.
Complete automation
Kronos strives to automate all of an organization’s workforce management business process so managers can focus more time on running their operation. Workforce Central 6.1 includes a host of enhancements that free managers from drudgery they experience with competitive systems.
- Workforce Alerts™ notify managers when their involvement is required. Capitalizing on the Kronos real-time architecture, alerts proactively minimize compliance risk and control overtime costs by identifying employees who are about to violate a work rule or accrue overtime.
- In partnership with Microsoft, Kronos developed Workforce WorksheetsTM which allow users to easily and securely bring Kronos and third party into the Microsoft Excel environment to format, summarize, chart and analyze labour information.
- Effective dating automatically applies new work rules when an employee is transferred to a new job or department. Accrual Transition Manager ensures accrual balances are automatically converted when an employee moves from one accrual plan to another. Cascading Pay Code edits free managers from having to remember company-specific rules by automatically debiting hours from the correct accounts.
Global ready
Workforce Central provides a centralized view of the entire workforce, enabling organizations to monitor workforce performance across diverse geographies. Gil Sullivan, Product Marketing Director says, “The latest release strengthens Kronos global capabilities and delivers enhancements such as an expanded library of languages; support for a broad range of local government regulations and business practices; and a new multi-currency feature which allows organizations to manage currency at both a local and corporate level.”
Machine resource tracking
Labor and machine utilization have traditionally been managed as two separate and distinct disciplines. Workforce Central now offers a single combined view of these two operational dimensions by extending the tracking of labor resources to include the tracking of production cells and resources such as operating equipment. As a result, shop floor managers are now able to identify and resolve bottlenecks in real time, resulting in higher levels of productivity.
Advanced scheduling
Workforce Central 6.1 includes advanced self-service for employee scheduling. The new capabilities enable employees to request open shifts as they become available, and give managers the ability to review and approve shift changes and assess how they impact the rest of the schedule.
About Kronos Incorporated
Kronos is the global leader in workforce management solutions that enable organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Tens of thousands of organizations in 60 countries — including more than half of the Fortune 1000® — use Kronos time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, hiring, labor analytics and access control applications. To learn how Kronos uniquely delivers complete automation and high-quality information in an easy-to-own solution, visit www.kronos.com.