Workforce management in manufacturing
Align labor to production demand, optimize schedules, reduce compliance risk and manage costs with a workforce management solution built to keep pace with business change.
A workforce management solution designed
for manufacturing employers
Our modern workforce management solution has advanced configuration functionality to handle your global pay and regulatory requirements while supporting the increasing demands of your workers.
Align labor to production needs, skills and certifications
Schedule shifts based on production and capacity levels, identify coverage gaps and ensure people with the correct skills, experience and certifications are prioritized to work.
Optimize schedules and access resources
Give people early access to schedules and self-service shift swapping, automate call-outs for open shifts and provide easy access to standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Simplify compliance and manage costs
Automate time, attendance and leave processes to reduce payroll leakage and compliance errors, meeting union, regulatory and safety requirements.
These manufacturing clients use ADP® WorkForce Suite to transform the way people work
Enterprise-grade and future-ready, ADP WorkForce Suite is helping some of the world’s most innovative manufacturers optimize their workforce, simplify compliance and increase employee engagement.
“This was part of a larger, ever-changing project moving from on-premise to the cloud, so our integration with other systems were changing at the same time. We could plan for the future with the ADP WorkForce Suite architecture.”
“I’ve been working in payroll for 30 years and am very impressed with the ADP WorkForce Suite. We have saved so much time, automated many processes, things we could never have achieved otherwise. We are more efficient and accurate across the business.”
“The WorkForce Suite helps us to get real-time data that reflects the dynamic environment in a large manufacturing company while reducing related administration for users.”
Manufacturing organizations find significant benefits
with ADP WorkForce Suite
Our manufacturing clients realize a range of benefits and savings from workforce management solutions. These estimates are based on the aggregated results of value studies with our manufacturing clients across a range of deployments and organizational maturities.
$1.3M – $2.4M
Time and Attendance
$2.1M – $3.7M
Employee Experience
$197K – $354K
Absence and Leave Management
$595K – $811K
Task Management
$1.0M – $2.6M
Scheduling and Forecasting
Up to $9.8M
Total Benefits
$13.5M – $23.5M
Time & Attendance
$21.2M – $36.6M
Employee Experience
$2.0M – $3.5M
Absence & Leave Management
$6.0M – $8.1M
Task Management
$10.1M – $26.4M
Scheduling & Forecasting
Up to $98.1M
Total Benefits
$26.9M – $47.0M
Time & Attendance
$42.4M – $73.2M
Employee Experience
$3.9M – $7.1M
Absence & Leave Management
$11.9M – $16.2M
Task Management
$20.3M – $52.7M
Scheduling & Forecasting
Up to $196.2M
Total Benefits
Optimize the Performance of Your Workforce
The WorkForce Suite is designed to provide action-oriented analytics to help you get more done. Boost workforce productivity and operational efficiency in these key areas.
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