In most plants the attendance register, the payroll spreadsheet and the production report never meet. Hours are paid, but never costed against what was made. The workforce block keeps people, shifts and skills on record, captures attendance on the shop floor, and books labour hours straight into the work order.
Hours are keyed from a register into payroll every month.
Nobody sees it building up until the pay run.
When a trained operator is off, nobody knows who else can run the line.
Hours are paid, but never assigned to what they produced.
Roles, skills and the work centres each person can run.
Who runs which line, and when.
Clock in and out on the floor.
Hours against the job they were spent on.
On the statutory rules of each region you employ in.
Hours × rate, into the cost of the product.
People, roles, shifts, skills and the work centres they can run.
Clock in and out, shifts and overtime.
Pay runs built on the statutory rules of each region you employ in.
Hours booked against work orders, costed automatically.
Illustrative, in any currency. Without time booked to the work order, those 6 hours are paid but never explained.
| Work order | 500 units |
|---|---|
| Standard labour | 6 min per unit = 50 hours |
| Hours booked | 56 hours |
| Labour rate | 18.00 / hour |
| Actual labour cost | 1,008.00 |
| Variance | 6 hours over standard (12%) = 108.00 |
Builds rosters from who is trained on each machine.
Runs pay from recorded attendance, not a re-keyed register.
Sees labour cost per product and per work order.
Payroll rules are regional — statutory deductions, filings and pay cycles differ across India, Europe, the US, Singapore and the UAE.
Operators book their time against work orders; the hours are multiplied by labour rates and added to the cost of the product being made. Comparing that with the standard labour in the routing shows labour variance.
A skills matrix records which employees are trained to run which machines or operations, so supervisors can plan shifts and see training gaps at a glance.
Yes. Payroll runs on region-specific statutory rules — deductions, filings and pay cycles differ across India, Europe, the US, Singapore and the UAE.
Direct labour is time spent making a specific product, such as an operator on a line. Indirect labour supports production overall — supervisors, maintenance, stores — and is usually costed as overhead.