Key Features:

• Manufacturing-centric HRM: WeFirst understands the unique challenges manufacturers face, such as high employee turnover, skill shortages, and safety concerns. It provides tailored solutions to address these challenges, such as:

  • Real-time Data Exchange: Exchange real-time data between WeFirst and manufacturing systems to optimize resource allocation and production schedules. Integration with eFactory comes out of the box.

  • Unified Workforce Visibility: Gain a unified view of workforce data across manufacturing systems, ensuring informed decision-making.

  • Employee data synchronization: Employee information, such as contact details, job titles, and skills, is automatically synchronized between WeFirst and the eFactory system. This ensures that both systems have access to the most up-to-date employee information.

  • Skills management integration: Skills management data, including employee skills, certifications, and training history, are shared between both platforms, namely, eFactory and WeFirst. This allows manufacturers to match employee skills to production requirements and identify opportunities for skills development.

  • Real-time production alerts: Real-time alerts sent from eFactory system to WeFirst, notify HR personnel of potential production issues and / or staffing shortages. This allows for proactive interventions and timely adjustments to resolve issues.

  • Performance data exchange: WeFirst syncs performance metrics, such as attendance records, productivity measures, and training completion status, from eFactory. This enables manufacturers to track employee performance across both HR and Manufacturing activities.

  • Safety incident prevention and root cause analysis: WeFirst incorporates safety management tools to help manufacturers prevent workplace accidents. With advanced analytics teams are able to identify root causes of incidents and implement preventive measures in time.

  • Training program integration: Training programs scheduled and managed in WeFirst, automatically reflect in the eFactory system thereby helping manufacturers to track employee training progress and ensure that they have the necessary skills to meet production requirements.

• Time Office: streamline time tracking and attendance management for employees, managers, and HR personnel, improving efficiency and reducing administrative burdens.

  • Time Clock Integration: Integrate with various time clock devices, such as biometric scanners (like fingerprint, face, palm) and proximity cards, to automate employee clock-in and clock-out processes.

  • Real-time Time Sheets: Provide real-time visibility into employee work hours, allowing managers to monitor attendance and identify potential issues promptly.

  • Automatic Overtime Calculations: Automatically calculate overtime pay based on predefined overtime rules and employee schedules.

  • Time Off Requests and Approvals: Facilitate the submission and approval of time off requests, such as vacation, sick leave, and personal leave, streamlining the leave management process.

  • Absence Management: Track employee absences, including reasons for absences and accrued leave balances, to ensure compliance with attendance policies.

  • Reporting and Analytics: Generate reports on employee time and attendance data, providing insights into workforce productivity, utilization, and absenteeism patterns.

  • Integration with Payroll: Integrate with payroll systems to automatically transfer time and attendance data for accurate payroll calculations.

  • Compliance with Labor Regulations: Ensure compliance with labor laws and regulations regarding work hours, overtime pay, and rest periods.

  • Time-Off Accrual Rules Management: Manage time-off accrual rules based on employee contracts, seniority levels, and company policies.

  • Overtime Approval Workflows: Implement approval workflows for overtime requests, ensuring that overtime hours are authorized and budgeted for accordingly.

  • Absence Reason Analysis: Analyze absence data to identify patterns and potential underlying issues, such as workplace stress or health concerns.

  • Predictive Time Forecasting: Utilize historical data and predictive analytics to forecast future workforce time needs, enabling better staffing and scheduling decisions.

• Actionable insights and data-driven decision-making: WeFirst provides comprehensive reporting and analytics capabilities, enabling manufacturers to gain insights into workforce trends, performance metrics, and safety data.

  • Comprehensive Reporting and Analytics: Generate comprehensive reports and perform in-depth analytics to identify trends, track performance, and make data-driven decisions.​

  • Real-time data analysis: Real-time analysis of HR data, allowing manufacturers to identify and respond to issues as they arise and help them to prevent problems from escalating thereby improving their overall HR performance.

  • Ad-hoc data exploration: Tools for ad-hoc data exploration, allow manufacturers to drill down into their HR data and uncover hidden insights. 

  • Data governance and security: Incorporates data governance and security features to protect sensitive HR data and ensure compliance with privacy regulations. 

  • Trend and Pattern Recognition: With latest advancements in machine learning and artificial intelligence, WeFirst automates data analysis to provide deeper insights that help manufacturers identify patterns and trends that would be difficult to detect with traditional methods.

• Streamlined payroll processing: Streamline payroll processes, reduce errors, and improve overall efficiency, with a centralized location to manage all of payroll data.

  • Automated payroll calculations: Auto-calculate payroll for all employees, taking into account their employment type, contract details, hourly rate, overtime, deductions, and taxes thereby saving valuable time and substantially reduced risk of errors.

  • Payroll reports: Generate a variety of payroll reports, such as payroll summaries, tax reports, and employee payslips. Track payroll expenses, ensure compliance with tax regulations, and provide employees with accurate information about their earnings and deductions.

  • ​Tax compliance: Stay up-to-date on the latest tax laws and regulations, ensuring manufacturers are compliant with all applicable tax requirements.

  • Integration with other systems: Integrate with other WeFirst modules, such as time tracking and attendance management, to provide a seamless payroll processing experience.

• Labor Compliances: help manufacturers stay up-to-date on the latest labor laws and regulations, ensure compliance with legal requirements, and protect them from legal risks.​

  • Labor law library: A comprehensive library of labor laws and regulations relevant to the your manufacturing industry and location (jurisdiction). 

  • Compliance checklists: Checklists to identify and assess compliance with labor laws to identify areas at risk of non-compliance and take timely corrective action.

  • Compliance alerts: Alerts to manufacturers when new labor laws or regulations are enacted or when existing laws are amended. 

  • Compliance training: Provide training materials and resources to help manufacturers educate their employees about labor laws and regulations. Helps reduce the risk of unintentional non-compliance and create a more compliant workplace culture.

  • Compliance reporting: Tools for generating compliance reports that manufacturers can use to document their compliance efforts for internal audits and for demonstrating compliance to regulatory bodies.

  • Recordkeeping tools: Tools for managing and storing labor compliance records to demonstrate compliance efforts in the event of an audit or investigation.

• Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE): Improve safety performance, reduce workplace accidents and injuries, and create a safer and healthier work environment for employees.​

  • Incident management: Tools for reporting, tracking, and investigating workplace incidents. Identify trends, analyze root causes, and take preventive action to prevent future incidents.

  • Risk assessment and management: Conduct risk assessments and develop risk management plans to identify and mitigate potential hazards in the workplace.

  • Safety training and education: Resources for developing and delivering safety training to employees, raise awareness of safety risks and promote safe work practices.

  • Compliance tracking: Track compliance with HSE regulations and standards for meeting legal obligations and reducing the risk of fines or penalties.

  • Reporting and analytics: Generate reports and provide analytics to help manufacturers track HSE performance over time to identify areas for improvement, make data-driven decisions and enhance their HSE program.

• Physical Access Control (PAC): manage employee access to respective facilities, protect sensitive assets, and comply with security regulations.​

  • Access control management: Allow manufacturers to define and manage access permissions for employees, visitors, and contractors. This ensures only authorized personnel have access to specific areas of the facility.

  • Access credential management: The module provides tools for issuing, managing, and revoking access credentials, such as ID cards, biometric digi-lock and key fobs. 

  • Access event monitoring: Real-time monitoring of access events, such as door entries and exits to identify suspicious activity and respond to security breaches promptly.

  • Emergency access control: Features for managing access during emergencies, such as lockdown and evacuation procedures to keep employees and visitors safe in the event of a crisis.

  • Access reporting: Generate reports on access activity, allowing manufacturers to track employee movements and identify patterns. This helps improves security and prevents unauthorized access.

  • Integration with visitor management systems: Integrate with visitor management systems to streamline the process of granting access to visitors. This improves efficiency and ensures that visitor information is securely stored and managed.

  • Integration with security cameras: The module integrates with security cameras to provide real-time video footage of access events thereby enabling manufacturers to verify access activity and investigate security incidents in WeFirst.

 

 

 

WeFirst - Manufacturer's HRM:

• Core HR

  • Employee Data Management: Manage employee data, including personal information, employment details, payroll information, and performance records.

  • Payroll Processing: Automate payroll calculations, deductions, and payments. Track employee attendance and time off. Generate reports on payroll data.

  • Attendance and Time Tracking: Track employee work hours and attendance. Enable accurate timesheets and payroll calculations. Offer features for geofencing and mobile attendance tracking.

• Recruitment

  • Job Posting and Application Management: Streamline job postings, application management, and candidate screening. Schedule interviews and manage onboarding processes. Track candidate progress and make hiring decisions.

  • Applicant Tracking System (ATS): Manage candidate pipeline, track interactions, and store candidate information.

• Leave Management

  • Leave Request Management: Simplify leave request management, allowing employees to submit requests and managers to approve or deny them.

  • Leave Policy Management: Manage leave policies, including accruals, eligibility, and compliance with labor laws.

  • Leave Balance Tracking: Provide an overview of employee leave balances and ensure compliance with leave policies.

• Performance Management

  • Goal Setting and Tracking: Set performance goals and track employee progress. Conduct performance reviews and provide feedback.

  • Performance-Based Compensation: Manage performance-based compensation and incentives.

  • 360-Degree Feedback: Gather feedback from peers, managers, and subordinates to provide holistic performance evaluations.

• Training Management

  • Training Course Creation and Delivery: Create and deliver training courses to employees.

  • Training Progress Tracking: Track employee training progress and provide certifications.

  • Training ROI Analysis: Manage training budgets and track training ROI.

  • Skills Management: Identify, assess, and develop employee skills to meet current and future workforce needs.

• Self-Service Portal

  • Employee Profile Management: Provide employees with a secure portal to update their profiles, submit leave requests, view their paystubs, and manage their training records.

  • Knowledge Base: Provide employees with access to a comprehensive knowledge base for self-service HR inquiries.

• Reporting and Analytics

  • HR Data Reporting: Generate reports on HR data, such as employee demographics, performance trends, and attendance patterns.

  • Workforce Analytics: Gain insights into workforce trends, performance metrics, and HR-related data to identify areas for improvement and track progress over time.

  • Predictive Workforce Analytics: Anticipate future workforce needs, identify skill gaps, and develop proactive talent development strategies.

• Hyper-Personalized Learning

  • AI-Powered Recommendations: Provide hyper-personalized learning experiences tailored to each employee's unique skills, aspirations, and career goals.

  • Adaptive Learning Paths: Deliver personalized learning recommendations and support based on individual learning styles and pace.

• Real-time Performance Visualization

  • Interactive Dashboards: Gain real-time insights into employee performance through interactive dashboards and data visualizations.

  • Performance Alerts: Identify performance issues early on and take corrective actions promptly.

• Seamless Integration with Manufacturing 4.0 Ecosystem

  • Industry 4.0 Integration: Integrate with Industry 4.0 technologies, namely, artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT), to optimize resource allocation, predictive maintenance, and production automation. WeFirst integration with eFactory comes out-of-the-box.

  • Data Exchange and Automation: Automate data exchange between WeFirst and manufacturing systems to improve efficiency and decision-making. eFactory integration with WeFirst comes out-of-the-box.

• Adaptive Automation and Robotics Integration

  • HR Process Automation: Adapt HR processes to seamlessly integrate with automation and robotics.

  • Robotic Process Automation (RPA): Implement robotic process automation solutions to automate repetitive HR tasks, such as data entry, validation, and processing.

• Augmented Reality for Training and Onboarding

  • Immersive Training Experiences: Utilize augmented reality (AR) for immersive training and onboarding experiences, enhancing skill development and knowledge retention.

  • Interactive AR Modules: Develop interactive AR modules that simulate real-world work scenarios and provide hands-on training experiences.

• Global Talent Pool Access

  • Multilingual Support: Interface that supports multiple languages to facilitate global talent acquisition.

  • Cultural Competency Training: Training materials and resources to help managers and employees develop cultural competency and navigate cross-cultural interactions.

  • Global Compliance Management: Ensure compliance with global labor laws and regulations to attract and retain top talent from around the world.

• Employee Engagement and Wellbeing

  • Employee Engagement Surveys: Measure employee satisfaction, identify areas for improvement, and implement initiatives to enhance engagement.

  • Wellness Programs: Provide wellness programs that promote physical and mental health, such as fitness challenges, mindfulness training, and health education.

• Physical Access Control

  • Access Control Management: Define and manage access permissions for employees, visitors, and contractors.

  • Access Credential Management: Issue, manage, and revoke access credentials, such as ID cards and key fobs.

  • Access Event Monitoring: Monitor access events in real-time, such as door entries and exits.

  • Emergency Access Control: Manage access during emergencies, such as lockdown and evacuation procedures.

  • Access Reporting: Generate reports on access activity, allowing manufacturers to track employee movements and identify patterns.

• Labor Compliance

  • Labor Law Library: Provide a comprehensive library of labor laws and regulations relevant to the manufacturer's industry and location.

  • Risk Assessment and Management: Provide tools for conducting risk assessments and developing risk management plans.

  • Safety Training and Education: Provide resources for developing and delivering safety training to employees.

  • Compliance Tracking: Help manufacturers track their compliance with HSE regulations and standards.

  • Reporting and Analytics: Generate reports and provide analytics to help manufacturers track their HSE performance over time.

• Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE)

  • Work Permit: Wokflow-based permit issual and management inline with company / government regulations. Worfklow based approval and change management across cross-functional teams.

  • Incident Management: Report, track, and investigate workplace incidents.

  • Risk Assessment and Management: Conduct risk assessments and develop risk management plans.

  • Safety Training and Education: Provide resources for developing and delivering safety training to employees.

  • Compliance Tracking: Help manufacturers track their compliance with HSE regulations and standards.

  • Reporting and Analytics: Generate reports and provide analytics to help manufacturers track their HSE performance over time.

• Business Analytics

  • HR Data Visualization: Variety of data visualization tools for data exploration and data visualization.

  • HR Data Reporting: Generat comprehensive HR reports.

  • Predictive Analytics: Scenario-driven predictions that provide insights into future based on past and present.

  • HR Data Benchmarking: Compare performance metrics to industry benchmarks.

  • Data-driven Decision Making: Provide tools and resources to empower manufacturers take data-driven decisions.

• Time Office

  • Time Clock Integration: Integrate with time clock devices to automate clock-in/clock-out processes.

  • Mobile Time Tracking: Enable mobile time tracking for flexibility and convenience.

  • Real-time Time Sheets: Provide real-time visibility into employee work hours.

  • Automatic Overtime Calculations: Automate overtime calculations based on predefined rules.

  • Time Off Requests and Approvals: Facilitate time off request submission and approval.

  • Absence Management: Track absences, manage leave balances, and ensure attendance policy compliance.

  • Reporting and Analytics: Generate reports on time and attendance data for insights into productivity and absenteeism.

  • Payroll Integration: Integrate with payroll systems for accurate payroll calculations.

  • Compliance with Labor Regulations: Ensure compliance with labor laws regarding work hours, overtime pay, and rest periods.

• Travel, Expense, and Claims (TEC): streamline the process of managing employee travel, expenses, and claims, saving time and improving efficiency for both employees and HR personnel.​

  • Travel Request Management: Simplify the process of requesting travel approvals, including itinerary details, cost estimates, and justification for travel.

  • Expense Management: Allow employees to submit expense claims for travel-related costs, such as transportation, accommodation, and meals, through a user-friendly interface.

  • Claims Processing and Approval: Streamline the claims processing and approval workflow, enabling managers to review and approve claims promptly.

  • Policy Compliance Enforcement: Ensure compliance with company travel and expense policies by automatically flagging non-compliant claims.

  • Fraud Detection and Prevention: Implement fraud detection mechanisms to identify and prevent fraudulent expense submissions.

  • Real-time Expense Tracking: Provide employees with real-time visibility into their expense balances and spending patterns.

  • Integration with Travel Booking Systems: Integrate with popular travel booking systems to simplify the process of booking flights, hotels, and other travel arrangements.

  • Reporting and Analytics: Generate comprehensive reports on travel and expense data, providing insights into spending patterns, cost-saving opportunities, and policy adherence.

  • Mobile App for Expense Submission: Mobile app for employees to submit expense claims and track their spending on the go.

  • Integration with Financial Systems: Integrate with financial systems to automatically record travel and expense data, simplifying accounting and reporting processes.

  • Global Travel Policy Management: Support global travel policies and compliance with local regulations across different regions.

  • Currency Conversion and Exchange Rate Management: Automatically convert expenses into the company's base currency and handle exchange rate fluctuations.

  • Automated Reimbursement Processing: Automate reimbursement processing, ensuring timely payments to employees.

  • Tax Compliance and Reporting: Ensure compliance with tax regulations related to travel and expense deductions.

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WeFirst - Your Business Advantage:

• Reduced employee turnover: WeFirst's focus on skill-based hiring, talent development, and real-time performance management helps manufacturers retain their valuable employees.

• Improved productivity: WeFirst's tools for skill development, performance management, and safety incident prevention help manufacturers create a more productive and engaged workforce.

• Enhanced safety: WeFirst's safety management tools and real-time insights help manufacturers reduce workplace accidents and create a safer work environment.

• Future-ready workforce: WeFirst's workforce planning and talent development tools help manufacturers prepare for the future of work and ensure they have the right skills in place to meet their evolving needs.

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