Working world 4.0 - flexible, agile and strategic

Particularly in the event of fluctuations in demand, whether customer frequencies in retail, patient volumes in the Hospital or order situation in production, there are gaps between the Personnel requirements and Personnel deployment often far apart.

The consequences are overstaffing or understaffing, low productivity, poor service, dissatisfied Employees and ultimately sales losses.

With a professional Staff scheduling can be Personnel requirements and order volumes optimally and reduce expensive idle times or overtime.

Modern workforceManagement-solutions, such as those from Atoss, enable the simple creation and evaluation of complex shift-, workstation- and order-related shift plans as well as the Simulation of deployment scenarios.

The IT-supported Staff scheduling created based on the determined Personnel requirements a rule-based plan proposal that optimally meets all defined criteria.

In the Planning laws, collective bargaining agreements, company agreements and individual criteria such as qualifications, working time preferences or restrictions are automatically taken into account.

Effort is measurably reduced and the quality of the plan is sustainably increased. A forecasting accuracy of 90 percent, 25 percent less overtime and fluctuation rates of less than five percent - these are figures from current projects that show the strategic importance of workforce management for companies of all sizes and industries.

The entire World of the Atoss Workforce Management is also available to companies that have SAP ERP Deploy or introduce HCM.

A new solution developed in cooperation with KWP Team HR Interface, the Atoss–SAP-Connector, realizes the complete integration of SAP-time management and Atoss–Staff scheduling.

The automatic, bidirectional exchange of common master and transaction data enables proactive planning and control of personnel deployment along the entire value chain. Personnel processes are mapped without system boundaries being noticeable.

Even the most complex deployment scenarios can be implemented without any problems. Companies benefit from more efficient, demand-optimized use of their Employees, greater cost-effectiveness and more transparency.

Investments made are protected, the benefits of integration into the SAP-total system remain intact. The solution has already proven itself in numerous companies.

Market fluctuations under control

The global sugar market is undergoing change. Competition for market share will intensify in 2017 with the end of the European Sugar Market Regulation to protect domestic Production dramatically intensify once again.

The Nordzucker Group is adapting to the situation and consistently changing with it. A comprehensive efficiency program is creating the basis for even greater market and customer orientation, with sustainability and profitability playing an important role.

The company is one of the leading sugar producers in Europe with 3300 employees in seven countries. Sugar production is a highly seasonal business, concentrated on three to four months of harvesting in the fall.

This is a challenge to the Working time managementDuring the short campaign period, well over 10,000 hours of overtime are worked each year, depending on the harvest volume.

Atoss Workforce management is intended to help Personnel deployment of the 1200 industrial employees and the seasonal external workers in the German plants in a demand- and cost-optimized manner.

The onlineInterface SAP Connector enables the smooth exchange of all relevant data with the existing SAP-Time Management.

The objective: higher planning quality, more transparency and flexibility around working time and at least 30 percent less overtime per year.

Higher planning quality

If it moves it's our job to stop it. Under this motto, TMD Friction has been successful in the brake pad technology market for more than 135 years.

The company, which is part of the Japanese Nisshinbo Group, is one of the world's leading suppliers of original equipment to the Automotive- and brakes industry are among the largest manufacturers in the World.

TMD Friction Group is internationally active with 4800 employees in Europe, USA, Brazil, Mexico, China, Japan and South Africa are represented.

In Germany the company has four production sites and a research and development center in Leverkusen.

In order to Personnel deployment more flexible and at the same time relieve the HR Shared Service Center of administrative tasks, TMD Friction is introducing in Germany for around 1500 commercial Employees Atoss Workforce Management one.

The pilot project for deployment planning with Interface to the group-wide SAP-time management system runs at the Hamm plant on the Sieg.

The Automatic Duty Plan and Flexible Staffing Plan provide even more planning quality, with which Employees can be scheduled directly to machines or workstations.

Also the Planning of first responders will be carried out in an audit-proof manner via this solution in the future. Relevant information such as time corrections or surcharges will automatically flow into the SAP-time management.

Automated duty scheduling

With more than 60 clinics, institutes and departments, Mainz University Medical Center represents the entire spectrum of modern medicine.

In doing so, the Clinic has been relying for some time on automatic duty scheduling for physicians, special and functional services, and on-call services using the Atoss Medical Solution.

Meanwhile, the entire nursing service with more than 2500 Employees integrated into the solution within just four months.

The smooth exchange of data with the existing SAP-The SAP Connector ensures that the time management system is up and running.

The higher planning quality is noticeable, for example, in OR scheduling: The utilization of the rooms has increased, and planning-related closures are a thing of the past.

Shaping working environments for the future

Working World 4.0 is characterized by strong individualization and highly flexible, networked performance.

The Management faces the challenge, Employees, suppliers, customers and partners into the business processes and to react quickly to fluctuations in demand and market changes.

In the long term, only companies whose productivity and agility are at the top level will survive.

Workforce Managementthe demand-, service-, and cost-optimized Staff scheduling, is the instrument of the future - a control cockpit to flexibly deploy the most important resource in the company, the people in the work process.

The demands of new generations of workers also make innovative working time concepts essential.

About mobile workforce Management, swap meets, desired rosters, workflows, and self-services, the Employees actively participate in the organization of their own working time. This promotes motivation and contributes to more self-determined work.

In this way, companies and employees benefit equally - the best prerequisites for a working world with a future.