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Production

Legacy spreadsheet-based workforce management creates significant operational inefficiencies in production environments.
Manual scheduling processes are time-consuming, error-prone, and lack real-time visibility into labour costs, attendance patterns, and productivity metrics.
These limitations often result in sub-optimal shift coverage, increased overtime expenses and agency costs, and exposure to compliance risks.

PeoplePlan offers automated job assignment, instant schedule changes, integrated time tracking, and analytics. These features enable managers to optimise labour allocation, reduce administrative overhead, and make data-driven staffing decisions. PeoplePlan can also ensure labour law compliance, manage complex shift patterns, and provide employees with mobile access to their schedules, leading to improved workforce satisfaction and retention.

Shift Planning and Optimisation

PeoplePlan efficiently matches staffing skills and availability to the manning needed to meet production demands. It uses automatic allocation, based on your site logic, to achieve optimal labour coverage while minimising overtime and agency costs. This is particularly crucial in FMCG where different products may require different competencies.

Skills-Based Scheduling

PeoplePlan holds employee qualifications to ensure only trained and competent personnel are assigned to jobs and equipment, rotating activities to meet occupational health requirements. It warns when skills are due to expire and enables training to be scheduled to minimise skill shortages.
PeoplePlan holds employee qualifications to ensure only trained and qualified personnel are assigned to jobs and equipment, rotating activities to meet occupational health requirements

Real-Time Attendance Management

Managers can quickly identify and address attendance issues or staffing shortfalls that could impact production targets. The system can help coordinate immediate replacements to maintain line efficiency. This is especially important in food production where operator certification tracking is often mandatory.

Compliance Management

PeoplePlan helps ensure adherence to skill allocations on shifts, labour laws, and working hours regulations while maintaining records for audit purposes.

Performance Analytics

By collecting data on attendance and labour costs, managers can identify trends, optimise staffing, and make data-driven decisions about training needs or process improvements.

Leave Management

Coordinating vacation and other leave requests becomes more streamlined, ensuring adequate coverage for production lines while maintaining employee satisfaction. This is crucial in FMCG where continuous operation is often necessary.