TimeZone™ is our preferred time and attendance software solution. It delivers full-function time and attendance management with many HR and administration features, such as scheduling or rostering software, time sheets, job costing and labour allocation, to help you optimize your workforce. A powerful and flexible solution, TimeZone™ addresses every aspect of your workforce management cycle, from data collection, to workforce scheduling, to time and labour data management and approval, to payroll preparation.
Options on top of the standard installation include:
- Scheduling Software
- Labour Allocation
- Time sheets and Web Punch
- Interface - Payroll, HR, CRM
TimeZone™ – The Web-based Solution for Your Entire Enterprise
TimeZone™ has been developed with a scalable, multi-tier architecture using Microsoft’s MS SQL Server. It is robust and flexible enough for mid-size and larger organizations requiring an enterprise-wide system.
TimeZone™ Web helps you cut costs by enabling deployment of the application and upgrades on a single server to hundreds or even thousands of users in multiple facilities, without client-side installation. Designed to scale and grow with companies with as few as 5 employees to more than 15,000, TimeZone™ is ideal for businesses of any size.
What Can TimeZone™ Do For Your Business?
- Save on payroll costs by eliminating errors, oversights and manual processes, automating work rules and accurately calculating employee hours
- Optimize employee resources, automatically assign schedules and ensure proper shift coverage with TimeZone™ Scheduler
- Effectively manage benefit entitlement with TimeZone™ Accruals
- Enable remote workers to clock in and out on their PC’s with WebPunch or record elapsed time and expenses with Weekly Time sheets, part of TimeZone™ Professional module. With full-function Employee Self Service capabilities, this module empowers employees and saves valuable time of HR administrators.
- Easily manage and implement rule and policy changes centrally, and communicate these and other HR correspondence such as absence requests and approvals, with TimeZone™ Letters
- Calculate job costing costs in relation to jobs/projects/departments with TimeZone™ Labour Allocation
Labour Allocation, Rostering Software
Our Rostering Software is designed to collect, analyse and track multiple levels of labour distribution and job allocation information, the TimeZone™ Labour Allocation module enables both supervisors and management to actively monitor labour costs within your organization. By enabling employees to input data at the clock or at a PC, you can accurately track labour costs associated with each aspect of a job or production. Monitor activity as it happens and make more proactive business decisions.
Benefits of TimeZone™ Labour Allocation:
- Calculate all labour costs up to the minute
- Choose a single level configuration or set up multiple levels for in-depth operation details
- Job transfers may be entered at a PC, at a terminal, or captured by a hand-held barcode scanner
- Monitor and identify any variances between actual employee attendance totals and reported job hours
- Integrate with existing systems and infrastructure
Scheduling Software
TimeZone™ Scheduler delivers what other scheduling software tools lack: simplicity! Our clients report that ITR has turned the tedious task of scheduling into a low maintenance and quick task. But don’t confuse “simple” with “feature light”: on the contrary, TimeZone™ Scheduler is packed full of functionality, enabling you to schedule, manage and allocate your labour resources for optimum results with minimum effort.
By tracking seniority, qualifications, preferences, and overtime eligibility and balances, we can help you select the right people for the right job while respecting the constraints of departmental budgets, union rules or government regulations. Complete integration with the TimeZone™ time and attendance application ensures scheduled time is properly accounted for in employees’ pay, and comparison and variance reports are available to management at the click of a mouse.
Benefits of TimeZone™ Scheduler:
- Calendar type reports give employees and supervisors a quick graphic presentation of their schedule
- Quick reference views show projected daily scheduling requirements to ensure proper staffing during peak/non-peak times
- “Planned versus Actual” and many other reports offers you the power to respond quickly
- “Schedule Posting” report enables completed or blank schedules to be posted for employee reference and/or sign-up
- Scheduling screen displays number of employees, number of hours, and labour costs in dollars scheduled daily.
Timesheets & Web Punch
TimeZone™ Professional is specifically tailored to meet the needs of project-driven organizations. Featuring full-function Employee Self Service with online Timesheets and WebPunch, TimeZone™ Professional streamlines the collection and calculation of employee time and labour information, ensures payroll accuracy and simplifies the administration of HR tasks. TimeZone™ Professional helps your web-connected workforce provide time and labour information easily and effectively to eliminate delays in the payroll process and facilitate labour data analysis across the organization.
Benefits of TimeZone™ Professional:
- Allow employees to update personal data, review hours and benefits information and request vacation days with Employee Self Service
- Enable employees to record actual time worked against specific projects, departments or jobs using Timesheets
- Enter eligible expenses (mileage, tolls, etc.) for easy reimbursement and tracking
- Enable remote workers to sign in and out electronically with WebPunch
Interface – Payroll, HR and CRM
TimeZone™ can seamlessly integrate with most payroll system to ensure that payroll information is transferred quickly and accurately into your system. SME Solutions has already developed interfaces to many of the leading payroll systems.
Benefits of TimeZone™ Payroll Interface:
- Eliminate payroll errors cause by manual entries
- Reduce the time and risk of running payroll
- Multi level validation of hours before importing to payroll
- Caters for multiple pay periods and payroll systems
- Custom interfaces for HR and CRM systems