Industrial Manufacturing

In today’s globally competitive environment maintaining market share means creating high quality, low cost products while operating on tighter margins. To succeed in this environment, industrial manufacturers need to manage a highly productive and cost effective manufacturing workforce. This means not only meeting regulatory compliance around United States, Federal, State or global labor laws, labor law compliance such as OSHA (Occupational Health and Safety Administration), FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act), FLSA (Fair Labor Standards Act) and complex Union and work rules, but also constantly training your employees to be more productive and developing the next generation of leaders.

Today SumTotal helps over 100 of the world’s leading industrial manufacturers, including 3 of the world’s 5 largest, retain, grow and manage their talent to run more efficiently and effectively. SumTotal has unmatched experience managing complex online compliance training, talent management and workforce management processes to meet the evolving needs of world-class, global manufacturers.

Complete Manufacturing Learning Management, Talent Management & Online Training Software Capabilities

• Effective, Efficient Compliance Software Solution: SumTotal’s strategic human capital management (HCM) software solution can help manufacturers plan, execute and track all compliance training and courses for Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulatory training course requirements for employees.
• Complete, End-to-End Strategic Human Capital Management (HCM) Software Solution: SumTotal provides a single, unified HCM software solution that manages the entire spectrum of human capital management processes. From core human resource (HR) processes and information to complete talent management, learning management, and workforce management processes – all with a single user experience and centralized administration.
• Available Anytime, Anywhere: Line workers and field sales have limited access to networked computers, SumTotal’s strategic human capital management (HCM) solution is available to be accessed anywhere either, in the cloud hosting or on-premise hosting options. In addition, our software solution is global – with support for 29 languages and deployed to over 162 countries. Finally, the global solution also includes next generation technologies such as our industry-leading mobile learning and social learning software capabilities.
• Complete Support for Online Manufacturing Training Course Standards: Because SumTotal has served many leading industrial manufacturing organizations, our online Learning Management software solution includes complete support for today’s manufacturing standards pertaining to OSHA training and ISO training courses.
• Structured Online Training Promoting High Employee Performance: Providing a structure that supports linking systematically all online training course topics or events with feedback loops to evaluate the conditions for success, SumTotal promotes manufacturing organization learning through on-the-job, online training courses.
• Critical Decision Making with Information: From monitoring targets across departments to working towards far-reaching decisions that increase revenue, the SumTotal Strategic Workforce Analytics software application provides a complete set of analytical software tools to help make the right decision.

Complete Manufacturing Workforce Management Software System Capabilities

• Control Labor Costs: How can you account for every dollar spent on every labor activity and then link those costs to orders, routes, or customers? With the SumTotal Workforce Management software solution, you can automatically factor in different wages, premium pay, or partial shifts, while ensuring that bids for new manufacturing business or contract renegotiations are profitable and accurate.
• Increase Workforce Productivity: Incentive pay programs have been known to significantly increase productivity. Many businesses have their workforce management data in various software applications — such as warehouse management systems, routing, and electronic onboard recorders — but lack the information to execute. The SumTotal Workforce Management solution is a centralized software application that collects and transforms this data into meaningful information and then applies complex work and pay rules to create accurate, effective incentive pay plans. With SumTotal Workforce Management, supervisors and managers can find, diagnose, and solve workforce-related problems before they impact service levels and delivery times. The software will also identify actual time worked as well as nonproductive time associated with scheduled breaks, material delays, or any uncontrolled incidents.
• Deliver Quality Service: At the intersection of customer orders and labor allocation, every minute counts. When it comes to picking and packing orders for shipment, SumTotal’s Workforce Management software solution can help you make sure labor is scheduled and deployed as efficiently as possible to meet demand. Even the best-planned schedules can come undone when volumes spike or forecasts change. SumTotal’s Workforce Management software solution gives managers the visibility to see where they’re in danger of falling behind throughout the day, with the workforce management tools to reassign workers where they’re needed most.
• Minimize Safety & Regulatory Compliance Risk: Automatically track incidents, generate warning letters, provide audit trails for actions taken, and have it all tied directly to an employee’s record. With SumTotal’s Workforce Management software solution, you can also capture and report on all hours worked, including hours of service rules, while setting alerts and reminders for when licenses are nearing expiration or recertification is required. Correctly identify and align workers with appropriate certifications, training, and licenses, and track adherence. SumTotal’s Workforce Management software solution can help you have the right people where and when you need them most.
• Regulatory Compliance with Bargaining Unit Work, Leave, & Pay Rules: SumTotal’s fully-integrated, end to end software solution removes the headache of trying to manually comply with complex work, leave and pay rules; along with the resultant grievances, fines, and employee relations issues. Let us help make your workforce more engaged and productive.