Clocking in

Labor Tracking begins with clocking in. When a user arrives at work at the beginning of a shift and clocks in, Labor Tracking begins tracking the user’s time and charges it to the user’s default LCC. There are several ways you can allow users to clock in, depending on how you run your plant and the information you need. For more information, see Clock In and Clock Out.

Tracking labor time in POD

The system generates SFC numbers when you release product demand to the shop floor. The system assigns the LCC associated with a shop order to each SFC number as it generates them.

If you need to track the time spent on work in a POD, you can set up the system so that it charges time against the LCCs assigned to each SFC number started and completed in POD.

You can allow users or supervisors to change the LCC associated with an SFC number after the system assigned it (see Setting Up Default SFC LCCs).

For more information, see Tracking Labor Time in the POD.

Collecting distributed labor time

If you need to support ERP distributed labor time collection, you can allow user to collect distributed labor work time for the input fields that correspond to ERP Operation Standards activities. On Labor Off action in the POD, user can collect distributed labor work times for each SFC number. These records are summarized during rollup. For more information, see Setting Up Collect Work Time.

Working outside the POD (see Tracking Labor Time Spent on Working Outside the POD)

You can track the time of employees who do not work in the POD by having them change their user LCC to the work they are doing. For example, a user can change his or her LCC to RESTOCKING while restocking product in a warehouse. When the user goes on break, he can change his or her LCC to BREAK. For more information, see Setting Up Default User LCCs.

Handling clock-in problems

If you have a strict clock-in policy, users may forget to clock in or out or try to clock in too early or late. When this happens, the supervisor can clock users in or out using the Supervisor Clock In/Out activity (see Supervisor Clock In/Out).

Changing user LCCs

You can require your users to clock out for breaks and meal times, or you can allow them to change their labor charge codes manually.

For example, when it is break time, the production operator opens the Change User LCC activity and enters the LCC for the break. When operators return from break, they can manually change the LCC back to their default LCC. For more information, see Defining User Shifts.

Changing SFC LCCs

If changes on the shop floor during production require you to change the LCC for an SFC number, you can allow operators to make changes in the Change SFC Labor Charge Code activity.

Clocking out

At the end of a shift, users clock out, and the system stops tracking their time. For production operators, you can set up Labor Tracking to automatically sign off their SFC numbers when they clock out.

Rolling up

Rollup is a background feature of Labor Tracking, which you can use to periodically summarize labor tracking data in the database. To determine what data you want to collect, configure the settings on the Labor Rule Maintenance.

To perform rollup automatically, you can run a batch file at intervals, such as every hour, every four hours, or once a day. For more information, see Determining Labor Rules.

Editing and approving time records

Once the system rolls up time records, cost center supervisors can edit and approve time records for their employees in the Supervisor Time Edit and Approval activity. Users can use this activity in the User mode to review labor time rollup data that was recorded through the SAP ME activities, and enter or edit their indirect labor records as well as distributed labor time records collected on Labor Off prior to their supervisor approval. Approved time records can be exported to another system, such as SAP ERP. For more information, see Supervisor Time Edit and Approval.

Viewing Labor Tracking reports

The real time labor tracking information is provided in LCC Summary Report and On Premises Report. The LCC Summary Report provides information about SFC labor, such as labor time spent on processing shop order and LCCs this time is charged to. On Premises Report provides information about user labor. It displays all user clock-ins and clock-outs during the time period defined in Labor Rule Maintenance on the Attendance tab page.

Managers can use the On Premises Report to determine whether a user has clocked in or clocked out during this time period. Here they can see the users’ clock-in status per shift, cost center, LCC, whole site, individual user or specific status.

Note that summarized labor records can be viewed by cost center supervisors in the Supervisor Time Edit and Approval (LT260) activity after labor rollup is run.

For more information, see Labor Charge Code Summary Report, and On Premises Report.