Notes / Manufacturing
Questions manufacturers ask us
Shift rosters, leave, overtime and production reports: the questions factory owners and their HR and finance teams bring to us most.
How do we stop handling staff leave on WhatsApp?
Give leave one place to live, with each person's balance in front of the approver at the moment they approve. The chat group can stay for everything else.
Read the full answerWhy does payroll take days every month?
Because the inputs arrive late and messy: overtime on paper, leave in chat, allowances in someone's notebook. Payroll itself is quick once those inputs are clean and in one place.
How do we track overtime and shift changes without paper?
Record the change when it is agreed, not when the timesheet is collected. A supervisor approves it on the spot and it flows to payroll without being retyped.
Why is our month-end report always late?
Because the checking happens at the end. When each figure is checked on the day it is keyed in, month-end stops being a hunt and becomes a review.
Read the full answerWhen has a business outgrown its spreadsheets?
When the file needs a person to explain it, when two copies disagree, or when checking the sheet takes longer than filling it in. Keep spreadsheets for analysis; move the daily work out.
Read the full answerTell us where your days go.
A 30-minute call is enough to find the gap worth closing first.