Automated Time and Attendance Features and Functions

• AT module operates independently of any built-in payroll system to allow use with outside payroll services


• Validated ADP-compliant employee number and department number


• Update security by employee


• Disallow restating history for a system-defined period of time


• Provide upload interface to external payroll package in ADP format


• Provide download interface from external payroll package in ADP format (retrieve employee number, name, department info)


• Provide web page entry or thin client for remote employees


• Electronic time clocks as entry devices


• Assign employee groups (hourly, salaried) which have separately defined business rules to be enforced


• Employee designates hours by task within WBS framework for project-based tasks


• Two-way interface to the timesheet display to provide employee-appropriate and job-appropriate pull-down menus


• Project and task codes can be discontinued--not valid for future hours


• Entered data is validated in real time


• Secure on-line timesheet approval hierarchy or matrix (for example, supervisor, project manager, or program manager)


• Reduce project task entry errors by providing a hierarchical drop-down list of allowable entries based upon WBS


• Project task entry option to display only those task codes that are applicable based upon user's title/category


• Option to make task budgets or variances visible on timesheet screen (in hours) during entry, or similar method to increase awareness of commitments and eventually improve quotation accuracy. On or off selectable by group (engineers, technicians, etc.) or individual


• Option to make task budgets or variances visible on timesheet screen (in hours) during entry with an employee creation of new WBS task during time card entry with alert to timesheet approvers. This avoids distorting track records on existing tasks if something unexpected comes up.


• Provide approvers with the ability to reallocate hours between tasks (works with above)


• Hour variance report for project tasks by individual or by discipline/department (mechanical, software, drafters, etc.)