We know that planning daily tasks always turns out to be more difficult that you expect. Some people say to hope for the best and plan for the worst, but we don’t take such a gloomy look on things. Dayforce Labor Forecasting helps you create plans based on realistic projections from Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The module gives you live feedback about how plans and adjustments affect projected results along these indicators. At the same time, Dayforce Labor Forecasting compares these projections to corporate goals and shows managers how decisions affect workforce performance.
Our Labor Forecasting module is built with the best practices compiled from some of the world’s leading companies. The module:
* Integrates KPI targets in real-time based on a corporate plan, forecasts or manager-adjustments.
* Includes a forecasting engine that can regenerate coverage at any time, for any zone.
* Budgets even for non-service oriented tasks and events.
* Reduces labor planning cycle times.
* Controls labor costs as a percent of revenues.
* Increases budget accuracy and ensures execution.
The Dayforce Labor Forecasting Advantage
With Dayforce, your labor planning and budgeting is always Performance-Driven™. Your corporate Key Performance Indicator (KPI) goals are embedded in our application in order to help you achieve your performance targets for divisions, stores and departments. Your managers can make proposed changes to their plans and see the impact of their adjustments to forecasted performance along KPI measures in real time. Our solution carries these KPIs through our scheduling and time & attendance processes, ensuring that the corporate plan is always your goal. All your schedules - proposed and actual - are judged against targets you established. Our labor budgeting methods can strengthen accountability across your organization by tying corporate goals directly to division, department or store-level performance. You’ll be able to control short-term plans in every organizational unit and truly understand how your company works.
Get instant KPI feedback. We strive to be a partner to your organization’s success, so corporate performance is central to Dayforce Labor Forecasting. Using our solution, you can see how workforce management changes impact KPI achievement and increase visibility and accountability for company performance. Our competitors' products may have the capabilities to do this as well, but because our solution is a single solution and not a suite, KPI calculations can be done instantly and easily. Doing these calculations in suites is difficult, time-consuming and tedious, so managers do not take advantage of their uses.
Optimize your labor planning process. Dayforce has an exceptionally friendly, colorful interface that automates complex labor planning processes across the enterprise. You can adjust plans and instantly understand how your changes impact your corporate performance measures.
Forecast accurately. Dayforce uses staffing requirements, employee attendance data and productivity standards to create accurate labor budgets and forecasts to set the stage for dynamic store-level changes that respect your goals.
Adjust operations to performance measures. The Dayforce forecasting engine gives your organization the ability to make proactive coverage adjustments mid-week in response to changing performance measures such as Sales per Associate Hour, Average Hourly Rate or any metric you may want to track.
Dayforce Labor Forecasting Capabilities
The Dayforce Labor Forecasting module is a fully-featured labor forecasting solution. It:
* Sets operational targets in clean and simple terms that make sense for your business.
* Applies corporate operating plans and budgets leveraging store-level inputs.
* Creates initial plan detail and allow for dynamic store-level adjustments to account for actual results.
* Compares store achievement with operational targets with rich interactive KPI feedback.
* Forecasts performance for the company, division, department or store at any time, even mid-week.
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There are always many issues that must be incorporated into schedules, and lots of tasks that need to be accomplished. We know that juggling a workforce can be harder than juggling flaming torches. The manager has to balance corporate goals with employee well-being, and shifts with employee availability and peak/non-peak times. On top of this, there are unexpected circumstances can arise and new issues can come up, disrupting a tested schedule and regulations that dictate how schedules can be organized.
Labor Scheduling
Dayforce Labor Scheduling allows your managers to stay sharply focused on corporate measures while preparing and adjusting employee schedules according to their preferences. The solution helps managers create shifts that meet business needs and employee availability, while avoiding over-and under-staffing. Our unique approach to scheduling ensures that your managers act in line with corporate goals. The module takes the ability to automate scheduling beyond our competitors’ products. It is the only scheduling solution that automatically prepares default schedules that optimize KPI performance. As your managers manipulate the schedule, our solution gives them real-time visibility into the effects of potential schedule changes to department KPIs, floor coverage, schedule policies, employee availability constraints and other regulatory hour and wage rules.
The application:
* Prioritizes KPI achievement in making schedules
* Integrates seamlessly in a single application with Dayforce's Time and Attendance, Task Management and Planning modules
* Manages overtime and premium pay scenarios proactively
* Manages compliance risk and balances business needs with employees' work life
* Allows mid-period adjustments at any level in the organization and automatically adjusts coverage visibility
The Dayforce Labor Scheduling Advantage
When you use Dayforce Scheduling, you can instantly see the impact of forecasts and schedules on KPI achievement, keeping front-lines in line with corporate goals. Your managers can also use week-to-date and period-to-date KPI feedback to further optimize their zones’ performance over time.
Dayforce Scheduling helps you:
Align your workforce with enterprise goals. Your managers can understand the KPI impact of changes to forecasts and schedules and can make data-driven staffing decisions aligned with corporate targets.
Increase store revenue. Changing a schedule can really change how an organization performs. There is always an ideal number of workers who should be working at a time, though that number is often hard to figure out. Dayforce gives your managers the ability deploy your workforce in the best way to meet business demands and achieve Key Performance Indicators. They’ll know when to schedule employees’ shifts in ways that improve customer service and increase conversion rates.
Boost employee satisfaction. You can give employees exceptionally usable self-service capabilities that help them balance work-life challenges, help you consider individual preferences when you organize the schedule, and reduce employee turnover and absenteeism.
Avoid compliance violations. You can prevent costly violations of union regulations amd hour and wage laws with real-time compliance alerts.
Optimize staffing coverage for performance. You can reduce the costs associated with unproductive over-staffing and virtually eliminate undesirable overtime and premium pay scenarios. Turn your employees into profit centers.
Dayforce Scheduling Capabilities
The Dayforce Scheduling module is a milestone in the evolution of scheduling. It shows users the impact of potential changes to their schedules by using the drag and drop adjustments feature. The single application ensures KPI-driven workforce performance in line with your organization’s goals. The solution incorporates the capabilities that your company deserves to help it succeed.
The Labor Scheduling module:
* Leverages local traffic patterns and transactional distributions to model business cycles.
* Plans coverage using base and flex standards for coverage, service and support.
* Generates automated and semi-automated schedules to comply with internal policies and external regulations.
* Reviews schedule and incremental optimization adjustments through a built-in automated schedule assistant.
All parts of the Dayforce application connect seamlessly, eliminating the need for duplicate data entry and ensuring that employee payroll reflects scheduling exceptions.
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Managing tasks can feel like balancing spinning plates while crossing a tight rope. You have to focus on keeping the employees satisfied, as well as on achieving corporate goals. It is impossible to do all this effectively without the right information. Dayforce Task Management can give you all the tools you need to optimize the distribution of tasks. Since our comprehensive task management solution is included in Dayforce Workforce Management, your company’s managers can consider all aspects of work and payroll demands of the operation in a single application. Our solution integrates task management and distributes details of customer demand-driven work.
The Dayforce Task Management Advantage
Achieve accurate activity-based costing. Our solution provides costing by a comprehensive activity-based budgeting and scheduling solution with an automated, fact based feedback and measurement system.
Gain visibility and control. All of your organization’s work is supported by budget-to-actual, forecast-to-schedule, punch-to-pay, and employee-to-company processes. This gives you total payroll leverage.
Optimize productivity. You can use “windows of opportunity” to become more productive and competitive. Leverage each location’s actual capacity to absorb work by proper gate-keeping, prioritization, approval and deployment.
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Keeping up with the work hours reliability of employees work is very important to employees and managers alike. Employees want to earn as much money as possible for their work and get the next promotion, and managers want to ensure that their workforce is performing optimally. We know that, in order to benefit from a time and attendance solution, it must be comprehensive, but still intuitive. Your organization's managers need to know when their employees are actually coming and going – not when they may pretend to. Dayforce Time and Attendance includes inclusive time-tracking functionality to help organizations track employee time, calculate gross payroll and comply with complex regulations. It also reduces costs associated with absenteeism and buddy punching. It works seamlessly with the Labor Forecasting and Scheduling modules, enabling your managers to see how actual Key Performance Indicator (KPI) performance compares with forecasts and the impact on their performance measurement and incentive pay.
Dayforce Time and Attendance:
* Includes a rich set of rules out of the box to meet client needs.
* Integrates seamlessly in a single coherent application with Planning and Scheduling.
* Calculates complex gross payroll accurately.
* Enhances usability by allowing for exceptions-based management and corrective action.
The Dayforce Time and Attendance Advantage
Dayforce Time and Attendance includes comprehensive functionality to ensure that employees arrive and leave as scheduled. It integrates seamlessly with other Dayforce modules, including Labor Forecasting and Labor Scheduling, to allow your managers to compare planned and scheduled KPIs to actual KPI results.
Reduce labor costs. You can increase the accuracy of gross payroll calculations through standardization and automation and decrease payroll costs by reducing time-capture errors.
Comply with complex regulations. You can use our solution to make sure that your organization is in compliance with complex regulations like union rules, the Department of Labor, hour and wage laws, and heightened reporting requirements.
Improve productivity. Using our solution, you can streamline and accelerate administrative processes. Be aware of your employees’ attendance and performance by self-correcting processes.
Dayforce Time and Attendance Capabilities
Our Time and Attendance module is the heart of our solution. It has the flexibility to integrate with traditional time clocks, soft clocks, and embedded smart clocking at the point of sale. Our module automates the entire punch to pay process, eliminates errors, provides real-time costing and connects seamlessly to Dayforce’s Planning, Scheduling and Task Management modules.
The module:
* Manages hour and wage-rule compliance.
* Manages and enforces complex local, state and federal labor laws easily.
* Records time, manage exceptions and correct errors.
* Reviews a full audit trail and notifications include a built-in waiver process.
* Exports punch detail and gross pay dollars and hours to an external payroll system or processor.
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Your employees are more than just another cost on the balance sheet, and deserve to be treated as such. Give them the opportunity to be active profit centers. Dayforce Employee Self-Service makes it easy for them to balance work-life challenges and optimize their happiness and efficiency at your organization. Dayforce uses current-generation Rich Internet Application technologies to deliver the intuitive applications that today’s employees demand.
Self-service capabilities are delivered in each Dayforce module:
* A rich, sophisticated interface that is exceptionally intuitive and pleasing.
* Improves communication which is proven to reduce turn-over and absenteeism.
* Involves the employee in the administrative processes, freeing up management to focus on the floor and mentoring.
The Dayforce Employee Self-Service Advantage
Every day when your employees go home, they use intuitive and rewarding software. Give them the comfort of using these applications at work too. Our solution leverages the latest technologies to create applications that are highly usable and fast. Usability is at the heart of employee engagement in enterprise performance because in a performance-driven workforce, everyone plays a role in optimizing profits. We apply the same usability standards to our self-service tools so that employees can easily and actively participate in corporate performance attainment.
Exceptionally intuitive. Our module has point and click and drag and drop capabilities, as well as a colorful graphical interface that create the friendliest workforce solution for today’s employees.
Widespread adoption that creates success. Since our application is so easy to use, it encourages adoption and promotes the attainment of performance measures throughout your enterprise.
Reduced form and administration costs. Online self-service significantly reduces the time managers spend administering requests, as well as the cost of purchasing, printing and distributing forms.
Employee Self-Service Capabilities
Dayforce’s Employee Self-Service Capabilities can be accessed through the employee portal. We use current technology to provide the simple, rich interface that employees demand. Capabilities include:
Time Away Requests: When your employees want time-away, their requests are automatically routed to managers who can take appropriate action due to immediate awareness in planning, scheduling, time and attendance processing and entitlement balances where applicable.
Post-it or Pick-it: Your employees can access the employee network of their work location(s) where they can pick-up additional shifts and/or post shifts to give to co-workers. Dayforce ensures that these shifts comply with skills, regulations and union rules.
Schedule Viewer: Your employees’ work-life balance can be managed with immediate access to published schedules. Employees are given visibility to manage their own work schedules without costing additional administrative time. This way, they become active partners in your company’s success.
Availability Manager: Be the best manager you can be. Have your employees define their work availability through our solution so you can respect their preferences in scheduling and they will respect you too.
http://www.dayforce.com/Solutions/Employee-Self-Service
Effective Human Resource management is absolutely crucial to the success of your organization. It is also one of the most difficult jobs for today’s managers. An increasingly diverse workforce with increasingly diverse needs means that your managers need to have a thorough understanding of their employees’ capabilities. Changes seem to be facing your organization every day, and staying on-top of the latest compliance rules needs to be second-nature. Dayforce Human Resources is full-featured with capabilities ranging from job assignment and benefits management, to employee availability and the administration of HR Policies to ensure compliance. Our solution enables your managers to ensure that corporate goals and objectives are deeply integrated with workforce management processes.
The application:
* Lists qualified jobs, rates of pay and compensation rules applicable to each employee
* Displays employee availability for quick viewing and easy adjustment
* Maintains a history of employee performance reviews for easy reference and performance trend identification
* Allows managers to track which HR policies their employees have signed off on and when
* On- and off-boards employees faster, reducing form and administrative costs
* Associates employees’ jobs with pay grades to recognize ideal employees for promotion and pay raises
* Manages training and qualifications for individual employees
* Monitors employee attendance patterns over time
* Allows delegation of manager authorities to qualified employees
The Dayforce Human Resource Management Advantage
Dayforce enables streamlined and consistent employee information management in an easy-to-use interface. By making live, interactive Key Performance Indicators an integral part of the workforce management process, Dayforce ensures that your managers make the right decisions.
Dayforce Human Resources helps you:
Maintain accurate records. Employee record keeping is made easy by eliminating the need for duplication of fields while protecting against data discrepancies.
Leverage HR as a strategic function.Your HR department has capabilities that can contribute significantly to your organization. Dayforce allows you to leverage these skills to enact strategic management organization-wide.
Track employee qualifications. Your managers can assign employees to projects based on their qualifications, ensuring tasks can be completed quickly and properly. Dayforce also helps managers plan career paths with their employees, increasing long-term employee satisfaction.
Increase management insight. Dayforce's advanced reporting features allow your managers to display information in new ways to reveal actionable insight – quickly, easily and intuitively.
Quickly on- and off-board employees. Dayforce’s easy-to-use interface helps your organization lower training costs, drive user adoption, and reduce the time managers require to complete common tasks.
http://www.dayforce.com/Solutions/Human-Resources
We have carefully designed Dayforce to connect corporate goals directly to operational decisioning in a simple and rewarding way for your users.
Instead of scattering functionality in confusing menu drop-downs, Dayforce ties the entire workforce management process together with My Day process checklists. Across all modules, My Day presents current Key Performance Indicators (KPI) relevant to the manager's and location's performance.
In My Day, you are guided by process-oriented checklists through operational labor planning, payroll, scheduling, attendance and task management processes withcorporately mandated KPIs embedded in each operational process.
My Day includes:
My Operations. Provides you with instant understanding of week-to-date performance by zone or location according to client-defined KPI measures in charts that are easy to understand. As the week progresses, you’ll see projected numbers replaced with actual results to indicate trends that might require manager intervention.
My Planning Checklist. Centralizes the planning process. You can see when corporate plans are ready for review and when short-term forecasts can be adjusted. Also, you can create and publish schedules as needed.
My Payroll Checklist. Provides a single view of payroll to-dos. You can investigate problem punches, make pay adjustments, look at review pay summaries and review overall payroll.
My Tasks Checklist. Unites task management functions with workforce management, letting you define, assign, and review tasks. Tasks may include: setting up cash, posting signage, preparing for audit or arranging special displays.
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We believe strongly in partnership, so it should not come as a surprise that we are committed to helping you achieve performance-driven workforce management. In addition to the services provided by our growing partner network, Dayforce offers comprehensive and thorough strategy, implementation, training, and support services. Our consulting professionals have years of experience helping all sorts of organizations optimize the management of their respective workforces.
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