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Worldwide Leader Offers Best in Class Solution for
Real Time Tracking, Scheduling, Reporting, Analysis and Consulting
of Workforce Productivity and Performance
MIRAMAR, Florida, April 18, 2006 – Kaba Benzing
America, the North American operating subsidiary of Kaba Holding AG,
Switzerland (SWISS: KABN), the worldwide leader in enterprise
workforce management systems, today announced the launch of it’s new
suite of solutions for workforce optimization. Building on the
company’s foundation of automated workforce management (WFM) tools,
Kaba Benzing now offers unprecedented capabilities for workforce
optimization (WFO) that include time and attendance tracking, data
collection, employee Self-Service, demand driven scheduling and
expert consulting services.
“We are excited to be the first company to launch a complete
solution that accomplishes WFO in the global manufacturing
environment”, explains John C. Edwards, Chief Executive Officer and
President for Kaba Benzing America. “The combination of software and
services now offered by Kaba Benzing America truly changes the way
management teams work. By providing real time insights into
workforce productivity as well as automated scheduling, and by
offering over 20 years of best practices and change management
consulting expertise, Kaba Benzing’s solution captures highly
significant cost saving opportunities, advances employee performance
and morale, and creates an environment for continuous
improvement”.
The Kaba Benzing Difference
Over the past years and through input from its worldwide client
base, Kaba Benzing has evolved its WFM offerings to better
accommodate the need for current or best practices. Increasingly,
highly complex forecasting, shift-scheduling, labor management
reporting, and analytics are requirements for streamlined and global
production. The optimization to meet these current workforce
management requirements is available exclusively from Kaba Benzing
America through its new Workforce Optimization Suite, an
unprecedented combination of component centric hardware, software
and consulting services.
Kaba Benzing’s WFO solution suite includes AutoTime 6 with
ScheduleSoft technology and Core Practice Partners expert
consulting. These components are fully integratible tools and
services for upgrading a conventional WFM system to a WFO system.
The combination of these offerings provides the unique capability
for immediate and real-time control — true optimization. Companies
that currently deploy standard workforce management systems for
monitoring and measuring labor productivity do so to avoid costly
staffing errors and the misallocation of resources. The data
collected by these conventional WFM systems relay operational
information such as staff counts and productivity measurements,
offering comparative data for determining the effectiveness of
previous staffing decisions and subsequent productivity. While the
cumulative data obtained from a conventional WMF system provides
management benefits, it only offers insight into past activity. True workforce optimization can only be achieved when real
time or current practices can be closely monitored to deal
with fast changing market and production conditions.
The combined benefits of automated workforce management tools,
demand driven shift-scheduling technology, and expert consulting
services provide the important capability of managing a workforce to
current needs. Through its partnerships with Core Practice Partners,
LLC, and ScheduleSoft, Kaba Benzing America now offers the complete
suite of components necessary for optimizing workforce management.
Core Practice consultants analyze low cost scheduling options that
improve employee moral and minimize costs for seasonal production
environments, and ScheduleSoft shift-scheduling technology
streamlines critical shift data and provides scheduling changes in
real time, offering significant cost efficiency.
About the Technology and Services
AutoTime 6 is Kaba Benzing America’s premier WFM solution,
providing Time and Attendance, Labor Costing and Analytics, and
Employee Self-Service (ESS) functionality, enabling organizations to
increase accuracy, visibility and productivity, while reducing
operational overhead costs. Certified integration with HR, Payroll,
ERP, and MES solutions provide companies with the ability to
maximize the utilization of their existing business systems.
Business policies are automatically enforced, with gross pay and
labor calculations, pay–to-labor reconciliation, and production
labor management functionality. Its configurable architecture
provides customized end user interfaces for both Web browser and
time clock users, which maximizes user acceptance, while
streamlining business processes.
ScheduleSoft technology enhances AutoTime 6 by integrating
a real time rule based, demand driven workforce scheduling
technology. ScheduleSoft's easy-to-use interface intuitively
connects front-line managers with enterprise decision-makers,
allowing for quick and consistent implementation of strategic
staffing solutions. It offers the ability to automatically manage
the resource plan (schedule), by aligning demands with employee
qualifications, availability, productivity, and preferences while
controlling excess overtime. The technology scales seamlessly from
desktops through all major client-server environments and the public
internet, ensuring that the right person will always be on the right
job at the right time. Through integration with all major business
and production process systems, ScheduleSoft offers significant
productivity gains while minimizing total costs, and provides a
rapid return on investment.
Core Practice Partners LLC is a consortium of experts from
Coleman Consulting Group and Core Practice Partners. With over 20
years experience in the field solving real business problems for a
wide range of global Fortune 500 companies, Core Practice Partners
has proven their methodology works. Their 16 step process combines
business needs, employee preferences, and health and safety to
design and implement winning schedules and capture the cost savings.
By delivering real results, Core Practice Partners integrates well
with Kaba Benzing America and ScheduleSoft by adding best practices
and employee change to powerful labor management software.
About Kaba Benzing
Located in Miramar, Florida, Kaba Benzing America, Inc., is a
subsidiary of $900 million Kaba Holding AG, Switzerland (SWISS:
KABN), a worldwide leader in enterprise workforce management
solutions. From time and attendance, workforce scheduling,
analytics, employee self-service and data collection solutions for
SAP, Oracle/PeopleSoft, Cincom
Manufacturing Business Solutions and other leading enterprise
business systems, Kaba Benzing offers an array of time and
attendance and production data collection solutions. Clients include
such industry leaders as Kraft Foods, BMW, General Electric,
Goodrich Corporation among others. Kaba Benzing can be contacted in
North America at 954.416.1720; website is http://www.kaba-benzing-usa.com/.
For more information:
Rohini
Uppal
KABA BENZING
954-416-1720, x361
ruppal@kbm.kaba.com
Kaba Benzing America and AutoTime are either
registered trademarks or trademarks of Kaba Benzing. Other names of
companies and/or products mentioned may be the trademarks of their
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