Kronos® Accelerates Momentum with Microsoft Dynamics Integration

• Kronos for Logistics includes time and attendance, employee scheduling, workforce analytics, activities, absence management, and HR and payroll solutions.
• Throughout the logistics industry including air, distribution centers, rail, and trucking there are pressures to balance profitability with quality service, at a competitive price. Labor costs typically account for more than 40 percent of operating costs and is the largest controllable expense within these industries.
• By tracking every minute worked against tasks, activities, and customers, Kronos provides real-time visibility into labor and productivity data to make rapid decisions that ensure quality and high level of service. Through visibility into actual labor costs – as opposed to relying on best-guess, blended averages – organizations can create more profitable and accurate job costing.
• Kronos for Logistics also includes a Distribution Center Monitor, which integrates with warehouse management systems to provide a view into order status on the distribution center floor. This is not available with a warehouse management system and it allows frontline supervisors to have real-time access to labor allocation against the status of orders.
• Kronos also helps create 'best fit' schedules that align employees to volume and subsequently link labor costs to orders. Additionally, Kronos automates manual, error-prone processes, which improves efficiency and enhances accuracy in payroll.
• A recent survey of logistics and supply chain executives found that most organizations that implemented workforce management solutions increased productivity by at least 10 percent with nearly one out of three realizing a more than 25-percent gain in production. In addition, four out of five companies reduced labor related costs by 17 percent.
• Kronos provides solutions to thousands of logistics organizations worldwide. Leading organizations including AAA Cooper Transportation, Averitt Express, Inc., and Con-way Inc. already depend on Kronos to most effectively manage their workforce.

• Cliff Jeffcoat, manager of infrastructure services, AAA Cooper Transportation
  "Kronos is a valued technology partner that has enabled us to gain control over our labor costs and maximize productivity. With Kronos, we are able to take preemptive action and make adjustments, if necessary, to meet delivery deadlines. And the ability to track labor costs where and when they occur, en-route or dock-side, has enabled us to achieve a fast payback from the system."
• Charlie DeWitt, vice president of vertical marketing, Kronos
  "From working with thousands of logistics organizations, we understood the need for an industry-specific solution to help these entities overcome challenges unique to their workforce. What is top of mind for logistics organizations is increasing productivity as a means to contain costs. Yet many lack the visibility to understand the impact of people on business profitability. Kronos for Logistics provides real-time visibility into labor data to help control labor costs and improve productivity."

• Kronos made this announcement from the North American Material Handling Logistics Tradeshow being held in Cleveland April 26-29. Kronos is exhibiting at booth # 1046.

• Through integration between the Kronos Workforce Central^® suite and Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft Dynamics GP, Kronos helps users of Microsoft Dynamics control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity.
• Kronos enables complete automation of processes such as time and attendance, HR and payroll, employee scheduling, and workforce activities, which helps organizations effectively manage their workforce and control their largest controllable expense: labor costs. This is achieved by reconciling labor hours in real time with other ERP data. Kronos also streamlines data assimilation for rapid analysis, reporting, and payroll processing.
• Additionally, with configurable work and pay rules in Kronos, it is easy to completely automate all pay and work rules across different countries and regions, which significantly reduces manual interpretation and application, minimizing compliance risk and/or payroll inflation.
• The integrated Kronos and Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions are used by organizations such as Jamba Juice, Towncare Dental Partnership, Inc., and West Fargo School District.

• Darin Massner, chief executive officer, Country Maid
  "The integrated solution from Kronos and Microsoft Dynamics is part of a companywide reorganization set out to reduce labor costs and boost morale. The integrated solution is helping us achieve these objectives through effective employee management and insight into how each labor dollar is spent."
• Dan Werner, director of information technology, Diamond Plastics Corporation
  "Kronos and Microsoft Dynamics both offer technology that is intuitive, easy to use, and provides fast payback. The integrated solution enables real-time visibility into labor data that has allowed us to improve productivity significantly by helping us take timely, preemptive actions."
• Crispin Read, general manager , Microsoft Dynamics ERP
  "In an ever-changing economic environment, organizations need to be equipped with the right technologies to help them succeed. Kronos is taking steps in the right direction to keep our customers sharp and competitive."
• Charlie Dewitt, vice president of vertical marketing, Kronos
  "Kronos customers look for robust solutions that are innovative, easy to use, and lower the total cost of ownership. Microsoft Dynamics shares similar value propositions and together we are providing users with readily available expertise in workforce management while extending the value of the Microsoft ERP system. This is a powerful combination."

• Kronos made this announcement from Microsoft Convergence, the premier Microsoft Dynamics event being held in Atlanta from April 24-27. Kronos is exhibiting at booth # 636.

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