Automating your Manufacturing Workforce with Mobility

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.

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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

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


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


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Manufacturing organizations relied on outdated manual processes, such as collaborating using paper or spreadsheets, which are time-consuming and prone to human error.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

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)

Optimize processes by understanding customer values


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.


Mobility provides the tools your HR administrative teams need to optimize processes and increase responsiveness to employees.


(Responsiveness)


Improvement)





and Labor)

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.


Mobility allows your teams to quickly collect data and gather metrics to analyze and improve workforce processes.


(Responsiveness)


Improvement)





and Labor)

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.


(Responsiveness)


Improvement)





and Labor)

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.


(Responsiveness)


Improvement)





and Labor)

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

Improve primary manufacturing functions with mobility

Admin, IT and Finance

Human Resources

Procurement

Product Development

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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.


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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-

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