2. Haier was incorporated in 1984, solely as a producer of household refrigerators. Over the
next 20 years, the company witnessed significant prosperity and is now a transnational
organization widely recognized in the world community. Haier currently manufactures a
wide range of household electrical appliances, 15,100 varieties of items in 96 product lines,
and exports its products to more than 100 countries.
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Manufacturing costs are directly affected by the productivity of employees. With 300
workers across the company at Haier Pakistan, the firm needed a more efficient method operations Lead
of collecting time and attendance records and readying the information for payroll. to ‘Haier’ Costs
The process the firm employed in the past required employees to fill-in paper timesheets,
while signing in and out each day. At the end of the pay period, each employee had to
complete paperwork and give it to his or her team leader for verification prior to entering
it into the payroll system. This process took about 15 minutes per worker (about 75 hours
or roughly 10-man-days of data entry and verification per month), time that could be better
spent on the manufacturing process!
A unique solution to everyone
In late 2009, Haier started searching for a solution to eliminate the manual process. They
began the process of reviewing options and collecting bids for a new Time and Attendance
solution. They pulled together a list of requirements for their new system and after carefully
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weighing in options, they chose TimeTrax over other competitors because TimeTrax was
the only Web-based Attendance Solution that had the features they wanted and the only Attendance,
company that followed through on each requirement they had. They were also impressed Payroll,
by the feedback from satisfied clients of EfroTech and the responsive and helpful nature Leave
of TimeTrax personnel. &
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Working with TimeTrax, a pioneer time and attendance solution provider, they were Management
introduced to TimeTrax’s biometric solution. Haier discovered the utility and ease of use
with employees using their finger/thumb impressions for identification when entering or
leaving the factory premises.
The system uses company-defined rules & policies to calculate the time each individual has
worked which can then be passed to the payroll system for processing payments. It supports
multiples shifts, provides department & employee-wise shift scheduling and it’s a complete
attendance register which gives late coming & early going details. Attendance & absence
summary is also viewable. TimeTrax’s Biometric system helped them eliminate buddy
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3. punching as well.
Smoothing Out the Path Ahead
As Haier’s management weighed this workforce management options, they realized that
only TimeTrax could provide real-time reporting and HRIS capabilities flexible enough
to meet their changing needs and diverse workforce. Furthermore, decision-makers could
leverage this information to gain actionable insight into workforce performance, thereby
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enhancing operational agility. TimeTrax provided Haier with the tools needed to streamline
the workforce attendance process, eliminating inaccuracies and time-consuming procedures.
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The centralized web-based solution significantly reduced maintenance and upgrade costs to ‘Haier’ Costs
by eliminating the need for multiple timekeeping systems. The system is more user-friendly
and more information is accessible in real-time.
The Haier HR team expects to cover the investment made into the system procurement
and deployment with the first year of its operation and hopes to reap the benefits for years
to come.
A grown-up system that develops your business
Employees can enter and report their work and take benefit of web-based interface or
online time entry interface. This system is flexible enough to be used as per desired: different
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locations using it in different ways. Some employees can use it like a time-clock (IN, OUT,
Attendance,
Labor Transfers, etc.) while others use it only for reporting leave-time on an exception
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basis. TimeTrax.Net can even run on your LAN, WAN, Intranet or across the Web. Plus,
this premier solution is also more cost effective than other Time and Attendance solutions Leave
available in market. Add all this to a fundamentally accurate payroll processing application &
and you have significant cost savings at hand. Travel
The system easily implemented the rules for labor collection and supported corporate HR Management
policies & rules for Haier. This has enabled them to track their labor efficiencies very
accurately and develop efficiency reports for accounting. Plus they can compare the amount
of labor used to manufacture product against the forecasted costs to make certain the
numbers balance out. This information helps them plan their hiring, track their overtime
usage, and determine the output per person in each area. In all they have now in place a
great HR tool.
More details about TimeTrax is available on the following URL:
www.TimeTrax.com.pkt
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4. TimeTrax Overview
Serving over 500 satisfied clients with this robust Human Resource Management system across
Pakistan in 27 cities and deployed in 17 countries across the globe; including UAE, South Africa,
Korea & Brazil, with embedded payroll logic for various industries, TimeTrax is the ultimate software
solution for Integrated Attendance, Payroll, Leave & Travel Management. We are proudly assisting
companies in building transparency into employee productivity for the last 14 years
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Address Suite # 301, Progressive Center, PECHS, Shara-e-Faisal, Karachi.
Phone +92-21-34389620-2
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+92-21-32043020-1
Fax +92-21-34389623
Email info@efrotech.com
Lahore Office
Address 523-A, Faisal Town, Opp. Jinnah Hospital, Lahore.
Phone +92-42-36115220
Fax +92-21-34389623, +92-42-35164696
Email lhr@efrotech.com
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