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Automation of Timecard Processes for Operational improvements
ValueMomentum assisted this Global Logistics firm automate processes related to capturing, applying and reporting of employee timecards for improving operational metrics
Industry
Logistics
Client
Leading Global Logistics Provider
Industry Needs addressed
Timecard Processing
To achieve greater efficiencies, a key initiative has been taken up by this Customer in “logistics operations” – referred to as Global Timecard System (GTS). The high level goals of GTS initiative are:
- Improve payroll quality
- Reduce payroll hours.
- Reduce operational staff hours
- End to end payroll and reporting process improvements for all functions.
Technology Solution delivered
Business Process Management (BPM)
- The Customer sought to reclaim all of business rules driving the GTS application and implement those as part of a re-platformed application built on a best-in-breed Business Rules Engine.
- The Reclaimed functionality would communicate with the non, replatformed elements of the application using MQ
- Key deliverables included:
- Studied the automation requirements for the module (Driver timecard for GTS) and prepare specifications.
- From the above experience, estimated the effort that would be needed for automation across all the modules in GTS.
- End-to-end implementation of the projects
- Business Modeling to evolve a repeatable process map that drives the Customer's GTS operations
- Rules Accumulation by interacting with business users, referring to policy documents, conducting workshop sessions, mining legacy applications
- Requirements Analysis to build a “Buildable” design that could be developed and deployed in a Business Rules Engine (BRE)
- Design, development and deployment of the reclaimed functionality on the BRE platform.
Execution model
At site, T&M
Technologies used
ILOG J Rules, J2EE, MQ Series
Benefits delivered
- System Change Request latencies reduced significantly
- Operational staff hours, payroll hours and payroll errors were reduced
- Reporting infrastructure enabled institution of a process to derive continuous improvements from this core Driver Time Card operations.
