ADDRESSING HUMAN RESOURCE OVERLOAD IN MULTI-PROJECT ENVIRONMENTS

Multiple projects across multiple teams with competing priorities often result in overload internally and, worse, customer dissatisfaction. Unfortunately, too many companies manage projects with limited tools such as spreadsheets. 

On-Time Edge, in partnership with Epicflow, helps manufacturers manage human resource constraints through resource management and unparalleled resource management software. Epicflow is a multi-project resource management tool that integrates with many project management systems that you may already be using. Examples include, JIRA, Microsoft Project, or Primavera. Epicflow also works with custom integrations. 

Epicflow simplifies the task of managing and sharing resources across projects. Using it levels load to capacity, which helps maximize output while projects stay on budget and on-time.

The combined power of On-Time Edge and Epicflow together enables manufacturers to: 

• Eliminate human resource constraints
• Improve personnel staffing
• Increase productivity
• Build a sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. 

With the disruptions happening in companies today’s unsteady market, Epicflow offers measurable value to companies looking to improve manufacturing processes and human resource allocations. The Epicflow solution provides immediate and on-going transparency and predictability in the face of any highly variable work environment.

Staffing issues include the following constraints: staffing constraints, employee performance, employee satisfaction, HRM employee retention, and staff attendance at work.

Staffing Constraints
Address staffing constraints by developing workable schedules. HRM must have knowledge of the manufacturing organizations profitability to manage staffing without compromising the bottom line. A few questions to consider:

- Will added staffing increase production rate?
- Will fewer staff compromise production rate?
- Is production rate integral to profitability?

Employee Performance
Assess employee performance with a couple goals in mind to avoid human resource constraints in manufacturing. HRM must be capable of spotting underqualified or underperforming individuals within the organization. And, HRM should be able to immediately identify hard-to-fill roles within the organization.

Staff Attendance at Work
Identify unmotivated employees through lack of career progression, poor punctuality, and frequent absenteeism. By reevaluating these employees, avoid future human resource constraints in manufacturing.

Employee Satisfaction
Understanding employee benefits and perks that help keep employees happy and retained within the company is a critical role for any HRM manager in the manufacturing field.

HRM Employee Retention
The On-Time Edge team can show you how to use Epicflow to gain greater clarity about turnover rates (by position, by age, by gender, by month, etc.). HRM employee retention can help you better manage hiring pipelines to avoid lags in production and profitability.

Epicflow helps manage human resource assets against the current production management requirements, which allows HRM managers, or other manufacturing leaders, to quickly and easily identify instances of overstaffing, understaffing, underqualified employees, overpaid employees, and ineffective employees.

“OUR EMPLOYEES ARE OUR MOST IMPORTANT RESOURCE”... THEN TREAT THEM LIKE THAT

Staffing Levels
After you identify constraints in your resource management processes, such as insufficient staffing, assigning someone to head the HRM personnel management function, such as personnel staffing, ensures adequate staff levels which are critical to the success of any project.

HRM personnel managers help identify talent for personnel staffing at all levels. He or she can identify hard-to-replace positions, high-performing individuals, and problem areas affecting profitability and manufacturing.

Talent Development
HRM personnel development also provides guidelines for career development and progress. It can help coach current employees by giving them guidance and feedback to ensure proper performance in their position. This kind of detailed guidance helps employees demonstrate improved dedication to and passion for their work, which in turn, results in better work quality, higher employee satisfaction, and greater profitability.

Report Up
Mitigate human resource constraints in manufacturing by leveraging a concrete system to evaluate overall staff and an HRM representative, who can offer feedback to superiors on the relative value of employees and departments and teams to the organization.

Keep Control by Basing Decisions on Visible Facts
Have a resource management program in place to overcome flaws in traditional project management programs in manufacturing. Resource management involves planning every step that adds value toward project and product delivery. Resource management analyzes tasks and their dependency network. It outputs rough work estimates for each task, project milestones and deadlines, and resource groups assigned to complete the task.

And finally, implementing any new system with consultation help from On-Time Edge, helps for a smoother transition.

• Dynamic hiring practices which balance the necessity for skill and the protection of profitability.

• Effective retention tactics combined with data-backed pipeline management to keep optimal staffing levels and avoid manufacturing lag.

• Performance management which identifies underperforming employees in need of replacement and high-performing employees worth rewarding and retaining.

• Assessment tactics capable of appropriately identifying hard-to-replace positions within the organization.

• Comprehensive understanding of the product and manufacturing process to effectively manage company assets in periods of growth or decline.

• An asset management platform for managing assets, creating greater transparency into the HRM processes, and developing strategies for improved revenue, profitability, and product yield.