Automating your Manufacturing Workforce with Mobility
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The document discusses the benefits of using mobile apps to automate workforce processes in manufacturing organizations, aiming to enhance operational efficiency and responsiveness. It highlights the shift from outdated manual methods to innovative, cost-effective solutions that allow HR and administrative teams to optimize their functions and improve employee satisfaction. Key steps for implementation include identifying challenges, collaborating with IT, and focusing on specific needs of the workforce.
Automating your Manufacturing Workforce with Mobility
- 1. Automating your Manufacturing Workforce with Mobility
- 2. Drive operational excellence with mobile apps for workforce automation 15% of manufacturing organiza.ons see their HR administra.on as able to provide insigh9ul and predic.ve workforce analy.cs. Manufacturing administrative support and human resources teams are challenged with driving operations that increase efficiency, reduce clerical work and streamline processes to ensure accuracy. Often, these teams do not have the necessary tools to complete these tasks efficiently. With mobility, your team has the opportunity to enhance and standardize these automated workforce processes that not only benefit employees, but overall organizational operations as well. Mobility gives your HR and administrative teams the data they need to get their job done. Only
- 3. Current trends in administrative support & HR for automated workforce • Move towards driving corporate profitability with HR administrators responsible for more tasks including payroll and project support • Automated systems that benefit plant and warehouse management, and allow workers to clock in and out easily • Move towards automated systems that provide the right data at the right time
- 4. The Old Reality vs The New Reality NEW REALITY Mobility provides the opportunity for manufacturing organizations to innovate in-house. Mobile apps allow for better collaboration between business unit leaders and IT. Manufacturing organizations hired costly consulting firms to implement automated workforce systems and establish a culture of continuous improvement. OLD REALITY
- 5. The Old Reality vs The New Reality NEW REALITY Consumers have been already been trained to use mobile devices, reducing the need for expensive training. Organizations were constrained for resources when trying to adapt current HR and administrative support teams with new processes. OLD REALITY
- 6. The Old Reality vs The New Reality NEW REALITY Mobile apps provide manufacturing organizations with the opportunity to modernize processes in a cheaper, more efficient way. Manufacturing organizations relied on outdated manual processes, such as collaborating using paper or spreadsheets, which are time-consuming and prone to human error. OLD REALITY
- 7. Identify customer value by responding to their needs Identify Customer Value With automated systems, HR and administrative teams can identify where their customers, the employees, want them to be more responsive, allowing for quicker responses with the information they need. Where Mobility Adds Value Mobility gives your team the information they need at the right time, improving employee responsiveness. Identify Customer Value (Responsiveness) Pursue Perfection (Continuous Improvement) Map the Value Stream (Optimize Processes) Create Flow (Track Metrics) Establish Pull (Optimize Materials and Labor)
- 8. Optimize processes by understanding customer values Map the Value Stream HR and administrative teams receive feedback on what their employees truly value in terms of benefits and services. HR administration teams can use these values to optimize operational processes. Where Mobility Adds Value Mobility provides the tools your HR administrative teams need to optimize processes and increase responsiveness to employees. Identify Customer Value (Responsiveness) Pursue Perfection (Continuous Improvement) Map the Value Stream (Optimize Processes) Create Flow (Track Metrics) Establish Pull (Optimize Materials and Labor)
- 9. Track metrics and eliminate waste with the right data Create Flow With more right time data, HR and administrative teams are creating a balance between employee satisfaction and operational excellence. Where Mobility Adds Value Mobility allows your teams to quickly collect data and gather metrics to analyze and improve workforce processes. Identify Customer Value (Responsiveness) Pursue Perfection (Continuous Improvement) Map the Value Stream (Optimize Processes) Create Flow (Track Metrics) Establish Pull (Optimize Materials and Labor)
- 10. Optimize materials and labor to measure customer buying habits Establish Pull HR and workforce management have now identified where they would like to be more responsive to employees. The team has also collected data to optimize processes, making decisions that best benefit the company. Where Mobility Adds Value Mobility provides a way to put metrics to work, modernizing processes and optimizing organizational benefits to keep processes flowing. Identify Customer Value (Responsiveness) Pursue Perfection (Continuous Improvement) Map the Value Stream (Optimize Processes) Create Flow (Track Metrics) Establish Pull (Optimize Materials and Labor)
- 11. Pursue perfection with continuous evaluation of current processes Pursue Perfection By making processes more efficient and productive, it is easier to drive continuous improvement. Your team can now understand customer value and how to maximize processes to meet their needs. Where Mobility Adds Value Mobility gives your team the opportunity to pursue perfection through iterative, continuous improvement. Identify Customer Value (Responsiveness) Pursue Perfection (Continuous Improvement) Map the Value Stream (Optimize Processes) Create Flow (Track Metrics) Establish Pull (Optimize Materials and Labor)
- 12. Mobility adds value from supply chain to sale Supply Chain Operations Fulfillment Sales & Marketing Post Sale Inventory Control Real-time Logistics Scheduling Receipt Acknowledgements Product Lead Times Order Tracking Scheduling Visibility Quality Control Dispatch Scheduling Logistics Route Optimization Warehouse Automation Customer Dashboard Sales Reporting Quotes/Estimating Competitor Intel/Analytics Work Order Approvals Service Manuals Service Performance Dealer Management
- 13. Improve primary manufacturing functions with mobility Admin, IT and Finance Human Resources Procurement Product Development Business Insight Dashboard Business Unit Performance Product Performance Time and Attendance Performance Feedback Expense Reporting Incident Reporting Tracking Engineering Data Search
- 14. Examples of pre-built manufacturing administrative support and HR apps Easily manage timesheets for payroll Monitor budgets and billable project information Manage employee informa-
- 15. How can you start “going mobile” for an automated workforce today? Identify a meaningful HR or administra- tive challenge or need that could be ad- dressed with a mobile app. Many challenges in manufacturing administrative support and human resources tend to be the "little things" that add up to daily frustration and loss of productivity for the team or management. Exam- ples include relying on manual processes, col- lecting information manually on paper, or having bottlenecks such as phone call approvals.
- 16. How can you start “going mobile” for an automated workforce today? Start a conversation with your internal IT department about existing policies and procedures that might be applicable to mobile app deployment. When researching mobile apps, security should be a top priority for your manufacturing administra- tive support and human resources team. Keep your IT team involved as you evaluate solutions and
- 17. How can you start “going mobile” for an automated workforce today? Start a conversation with your team, ad- dressing their pain points and how their job can be made easier with a mobile app. For a mobile app to be successful for your adminis- trative support and human resources team, it must be focused on their needs. If they could have a set of mobile apps to help them with their job, what would the top three be? How challenging is it for the team to gather organizational and employee data to im-
- 18. How can you start “going mobile” for an automated workforce today? Identify the key goals that your manufac- turing administrative support and human resources team wants to achieve with an investment in mobility. When planning for the implementation of a mobile app, consider what information and data they need to keep revenue up while managing tight schedules and deadlines. Beyond user acceptance, what are the
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