Hello, my name is John Simmons with Indeavor, and I’m going to speak today for a few minutes on the importance of engaging the frontline manufacturing worker, specifically, through mobile applications. The frontline production workforce is the foundational critical component of all manufacturing organizations. I think almost everyone will agree with that. In fact, if you have a differing opinion, I would love to hear from you.
In a similar fashion, how organizations engage manufacturing workers is critical to successful execution. By this I mean, meeting customer demand, maintaining quality, and maintaining margin by controlling labor spend. Again, that’s hitting production goals, producing high-quality goods with minimal waste, and maintaining and controlling labor costs. Furthermore, and in a similar fashion, the tools that Indeavor provides for engagement with the workforce are the foundation of the value delivered across operations, HR, and finance teams by the Indeavor solution.
Let’s talk about how Indeavor’s employee engagement features impact different parts of the org, from the worker to facility management to regional and corporate leadership and beyond. But first, what is Endeavor and what are its employee engagement features? Indeavor is a people operations platform. It connects various systems such as HCM, ERP, and time and attendance, delivering a worker schedule that is perfectly matched to production plans, as well as safety guidelines, company policy, union CBAs, et cetera.
So how does the Indeavor solution benefit the worker, management, corporate leadership, and ultimately the overall org and its customers? Let’s start with workers. The workers were granted visibility, greater flexibility, and control over their schedule with Indeavor. Things typically thought impossible are simple automated tasks. Whether it’s the worker looking to volunteer for overtime or request vacation, or the org looking for more volunteers or to notify workers of changes, et cetera. Indeavor has that covered.
And as we’ve established the workers, the foundation of success across the entire org, which brings us to management. I’m talking about facility and plant level management and supervisors with Indeavor, long-term planning solutions that can take days and will take hours, maybe even less. It’s not uncommon to see a two, three-day process reduced to two hours or less. Even more challenging than long-term planning is the day to day shift to shift changes, absent backfill, absence backfills, and rebalancing. Overtime holdovers, et cetera. Those processes that can take hours on a shift-to-shift basis, uh, can take just a few minutes.
Moving on to leadership, regional and corporate leadership outside of the plant. How does, how does Indeavor benefit them? Well, insight of performance allocation standards how are actuals playing out versus plans and budgets? Things like straight versus overtime, planned OT versus unplanned, direct versus indirect labor spend, volunteering versus forced OT. How are facilities performing in comparison to one another? What SKUs are problematic? Indeavor is going to provide insight into all those things and help find answers.
Now, how does it benefit the organization as a whole the organization’s customers, and the user’s customers? How does worker engagement in mobile platforms benefit the overall health of the org and its customers? Indeavor optimizes the most important and most volatile production input. That’s labor. No small part of that is the gap Indeavor bridges and the access it provides to workers. Right through the mobile application ensuring the right worker, right place, and right time margin gets improved and customers benefit from more efficient production and improvement to quality.
In summary, Indeavor is the key to unlocking the true potential of your existing workforce. Worker engagement in the Indeavor mobile app is the foundation for delivering success at the four main places within the manufacturing org. Again, the frontline workforce, plant level managers and supervisors, regional and corporate leadership, and ultimately customers and the overall success of the org.
