Production & manufacturing
With Wageloch rostering software, it’s easy to make better staffing and budgeting decisions.
After a better production or manufacturing rostering solution? When you manage many staff across many sites, departments and roles, you need a simple system that works the way you do. With 24/7 rostering and clocking, Wageloch can be configured to your unique needs – and even the most complex award conditions.
You can also assign employees to multiple roles and departments with different pay levels, within the same day or shift. So you save countless hours on manual payroll changes and fixing mistakes.
Paris Creek Case Study
Before Paris Creek introduced Wageloch, each staff member in the company used a plastic card to clock on and off. The business needed to continually buy and replace cards for about 20 different employees with the numbers fluctuating at various times during the year. Valuable hours were also being invested in manually inputting and calculating the payroll.
After an industry suggestion and looking at other proposals on offer, the company contacted Wageloch to integrate an automatic payment system into the business, helping to reduce hours spent on payroll.
“Wageloch offered us a better price and after trialling the system we found it worked really well. I’ve requested various changes over the years and that has happened quickly,” said Phoebe Dong, Accounts Payable & Payroll at Paris Creek Farms and Maggie Beer Products
The new rostering software uses an app for employees where they can use a fingerprint to clock on and off, and they can also use the simple, automated system to apply for their leave and approval.
“The system has fixed mistakes from human errors but I think the most important thing is that when I need help the Helpdesk is on standby, they will have any issues resolved straight away. We used to spend a day having to process payroll but now employees have their own app that is environmentally friendly.”
In production or manufacturing, you need to apply different pay categories across a normal week. Wageloch does this automatically, with easy-to-understand management reports built in – including wages as a percentage of sales. So you can save time and tens of thousands of dollars in lost profits.
Rare Foods Australia
Rare Foods Australia is an ASX listed company that sources and distributes rare and premium produce from the oceans of the South-West of Western Australia.
From the divers who source the rare produce to the office staff and processing teams who facilitate the sales, Rare Foods Australia manages a diverse workforce of staff, each operating under different awards with intricate and complex allowances.
Handling the unique rules for each employment award manually in MYOB was incredibly time-consuming, taking approximately 2 hours per payroll cycle, and assigning allowances to shifts required manual adjustments which was prone to errors and inefficiency.
Alongside the challenges of payroll, managing employee schedules and leave requests proved increasingly challenging, especially in a retail setting where advance planning is crucial.
As innovators of the ocean, Rare Foods Australia needed to bring innovation within their office too and made the decision to implement Wageloch alongside their ERP software (MYOB Acumatica) and their POS software (1Retail) to help streamline business processes.
Once Wageloch was in place, Rare Foods Australia were able to set up unique rules for each award, with direct application of specific pay items, saving approximately 2 hours per payroll cycle. More so, with the application of automated allowances, managers could now assign allowances directly to shifts, streamlining the process and eliminating manual errors.
The tracking of employees by site enabled department managers to efficiently manage hours, allowances, leave balances, and avoid overtime and negative leave balances.
By tracking salaries and expenses to specific departments, Rare Foods Australia were able to enhance the visibility of labour expenses which has allowed for more accurate financial management.
A business operating with a myriad of complex awards and allowances requires an intelligent software system that ensures the correct rates of pay are applied without the need for constant manual intervention. With Wageloch, you can set up rules for multiple awards and assign allowances directly to shifts so there are no manual errors in staff timesheets.
In a high-risk industry where safety is paramount, Wageloch’s qualification tracking feature is an excellent tool for managing licence and qualification renewals, ensuring employees are properly qualified for their roles.
