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You can define rules that govern how certain features of Labor Tracking work at your site, including employee attendance, default SFC LCCs, and rollup. You can set labor rules in Labor Rule Maintenance activity (see Labor Rule Maintenance).

For example, on the Attendance Rules tab page, you can determine the following:

  • How strict the control of the employee clock in and out is

  • Whether you want Labor Tracking to automatically clock out users who forget to clock out themselves, and whether to automatically sign off users SFC numbers at clock out

Setting Up Rollup Processing Rules

Rollup processing rules allow you to set rules for SFC labor and user labor. On the Rollup Processing tab page, you can determine the following:

  • Whether you will collect information for SFC labor, user labor, or both

  • What information you want to collect along with SFC labor information, such as cost centers, customers, materials, operations, and resources

  • How you want to track idle time between SFC numbers, and how you want to distribute labor time when operators work multiple SFC numbers

What is SFC Labor?

SFC labor is the amount of time an SFC number was worked by operators. It is the length of time for various SFC LCCs. You are interested in SFC labor. If you use Labor Tracking for billing and cost accounting purposes, you should track SFC labor.

When the system records SFC labor, it also includes information, such as the SFC LCC, the shop order, and whether the labor was rework.

What is User Labor?

Generally, user labor is the time between a user’s clock-in and clock-out time. If you use Labor Tracking for payroll and supervisory purposes, should track user labor.

When the system records user labor, it includes the following information:

  • Quantity of SFC numbers completed in a certain time

  • Length of time for various user LCCs

  • Whether the labor was rework

  • Time spent on specific shop orders

Running Rollup

To run this feature once or set it up to run periodically using a scheduler, run the.bator .ksh file that comes with the product.

For more information about rollup, see Rollup Examples.

Exporting Rollup Information

You can export the information rollup summaries to .xml files for use with other systems.