General Considerations

Total cost of ownership (TCO) is significantly lower than competing products.

Simplified Corrections

Simplified editing of labor transactions before they are uploaded into Macola.  Once transactions are in Macola it is much more difficult to make corrections.

·        Easily change information while an employee currently punched in on a job.

·        Manager/ supervisor to review labor transactions and make corrections prior to uploading them into
       Macola.

Advanced User Interface

Graph all upstream and downstream operations quantity planned compared to quantity reported.

·        Graph all upstream and downstream operations planned labor hours compared to actual labor
       hours.

·        Scan a single barcode that includes both the shop order and operation to reduce time and increase
       accuracy.

·        Record information in the fiver user defined fields per labor transaction.

·        Manufacturing employee to view the labor transactions they have recorded today.

 Advanced Capabilities

Employees are allowed to work in departments and work centers other than their home departments and work centers.

·        Automatic creation of clock card records without requiring separate data entry.

·        Allocation of quantity completed between all members of a crew.

·        View real time data that include historical transactions and that have not been uploaded to Macola.

·        Online real time validation of shop orders, operations, manufacturing employees, indirect codes,
       machines, scrap reason codes, reject reason codes, reject locations, etc.

·        Automatically create lunch punch in/out records and associate the time with an indirect code.

·        Automatically create break punch in/out records and associate the time with an indirect code.

·        View history of transactions that were entered in the Manufacturing Intelligence System.
       Ability To Redefine Periods

 Advanced Features

Mass change the pay period start date for employees that did not work in the prior pay period.

·        Distribute a manufacturing employees time against multiple shop order / operations and indirect
       codes

·        Creating of complex rounding rules that allow you to define punch in and out rounding ranges per
        shift. 

For example:

o   7:00am to 7:09am – Record as 7:09am

o   7:10am to 7:19am – Record as 7:19am

o   7:20am to 7:24am – Record as 7:24am

o   7:25am to 7:30am – Record as 7:30am

o   For human resource purposes both the actual punch in/out time and the rounded punch in/out time is
    recorded.

o   You may also set up employee specific rounding ranges to address the needs of employees that work
    usual hours.

·        The ability view Online Dispatch information without consuming Macola licenses.

·        Optional module to perform Business Analysis of labor transaction information utilizing cubes

·        Optional modules to view a manufacturing dashboard with scheduling queue and run rates