Eliminating payroll pressure
A key driver for the project was to remove the weekly pressure on the payroll department to collect in timesheets from all depots, validate them and manually key them into payroll before the Monday deadline. It was becoming increasingly difficult to manage this process particularly when there was the added pressure of Monday bank holidays to accommodate and a fixed deadline of Thursday for paying employees. “It would generally take us until late on Monday to process the payroll but since using Kronos we’ve been in a position to complete payroll in a more timely manner and expect it to improve further as remaining depots come online. We now instruct all depots to sign off timesheets in Kronos by 10.00am on a Monday morning, ready for running the payroll interface at 11.00am. This increased level of efficiency has enabled us to re-deploy one member of the payroll team, which of course reduces our labour cost in this one area,” explains Joanne Mortimore.