Human capital management for the manufacturing industry

Manufacturing operations are characterised by large-scale plant workforces, extensive shift rotation, legal compliance needs specific to factory workers, and continuous production. HR software can manage shift planning, synchronise plant attendance with payroll, track compliance with laws such as the Factory Act and contract labour laws, and reduce administrative overhead for works management, preventing production line halts due to manpower shortages in shifts.

Timekeeping data from biometric machines, facial recognition attendance systems, and smart turnstiles feeds into the HR software to calculate overtime in hours. This helps in automating the process of sanctioning shifts as per labour law norms and company policy, with approvals routed back to the relevant supervisors before being processed into the monthly payroll.

Yes. PeopleStrong’s workforce management module leverages the cloud-based MAAX AI platform to drive end-to-end automation through its AI chatbot Jinie. This helps in resolving attendance discrepancies, flagging pre-payroll processing errors, automating shift swaps, and screening worker applications for hiring.

Through a mobile self-service portal and kiosks, manufacturing employees can view their shift schedules, check their leave balance and request time off, view their monthly payslip, and log expenses. In addition, they can ask queries relating to policies and track approval of their requests through an AI-powered chatbot available 24/7 without visiting the plant HR.

Yes. The enterprise HR software is designed as a centralised multi-tenant cloud to connect all production plants and warehouses geographically distributed around the globe in one database. At the same time, the central HR department maintains overall control and visibility while allowing each plant manager to establish shift patterns, holidays, working days, and other location-specific settings.