- Reduce and control costs
- Increase productivity
- Improve service levels
- Understand and meet your true demand
- Use time more effectively
- Improve work life balance
- Increase labour flexibility
- Manage seasonality and volatility
11.5% Labour cost saving
Staff turnover reduced by 10%
- We provide the structure to guide your project to successful implementation
- We can be as involved as you want us to be; from high end strategic advice to providing working time audits and strategic reviews
- We use our vast experience, knowledge and specialist tools to recommend solutions to increase profitability and productivity
20% increase in throughput
Manufacturing efficiency increased by 30%
- WORK Scheduling: Powerful shift pattern and rota design tool
- WORK Management: Comprehensive labour resource management system
- WORK Time: Delivers real-time labour supply information
- WORK Employee Self Service: Empowers employees to manage time off and other workforce variables efficiently
Time saving of 25% in day-to-day
organisation of labour
Lean Employee Resourcing (Lean-ER™)
Martin Gee, Director of Consulting of Working Time Solutions describes the concept behind Lean Employee
How Lean-ER™s can help your organisation to succeed
Organisations across the world use Lean principles in order to become more efficient. Lean began in the manufacturing sector where it was used to cut out waste, reduce costs and make the optimum use of resources.
Today, however, the concept is widely established within every sector. By continuously studying processes and systems, and identifying where improvements can be made, organisations can become more flexible, less wasteful, more profitable.
But what if they could be leaner still?
Our approach is called Lean Employee Resourcing. Lean-ER™ transforms the way that working hours and shift patterns operate, with huge benefits for your team members and organisation.
- Staff are fully employed when they're at work
- Overtime and agency dependencies are greatly reduced or eliminated
- Fewer people are absent from work
- Holidays are administered efficiently
- Shifts are scheduled when they're actually needed
- Long working hours are no longer the norm
- Your organisation manages its teams proactively
Our innovative methods challenge traditional working arrangements. By introducing radical improvements such as contracts that state the hours to be worked over a year instead of each week, and then linking this with demand-led rostering, Lean-ER™ puts your workforce and your systems to work more effectively.
How we help organisations introduce Lean-ER™
- Your demand for labour is carefully analysed
- We identify if, when and why your demand changes throughout the year
- Costs and earnings are compared
- We engage with your employees, consulting with them over current systems and how they can be improved
- The use of overtime and temporary labour is reviewed
- Alternative work patterns are designed and developed
- We introduce easy-to-use IT systems
- Contracts, terms and conditions are revised
- We explain why new systems are being introduced and how they work
- We introduce systems to continuously review and improve your demand and supply forecasts
- The way you work is changed for the better
- Our expert team leads the entire project towards success
We help organisations implement successful Lean-ER™ strategies through a mix of consultation advice, specialist services and bespoke software tools. This unique combination of technology, specialist services and consultancy finally puts you and your workforce in control of the time available. You use as much or as little of it as you need. And the result? You achieve a more responsive, profitable organisation. If you would like to find out how Lean-ER™ can help your organisation, please contact us or submit an information request and we shall be happy to find out how we can help.
Other areas of expertise
Working Time Solutions have a wealth of experience in finding working time change solutions. At the core of the Lean-ER principle are areas where we also have particular expertise; shift pattern development, workforce management and annual hours strategies.
Our clients include
Solutions across all sectors
2012
Events, Forums & Training Days
As well as providing consultancy and software tools for working time change strategies, we also host educative working time change events which we run periodically throughout the year.
Forthcoming Events
Working Time Change Masterclass
28th February 2012, The Royal Holloway University of London
“How Lean Employee Resourcing can reduce costs and meet the customers rising expectations”
This particular Masterclass targets the challenges faced by the public sector.
Working Time Change Forum
14th & 15th March 2012 , The 6th Annual Working Time Forum
“The Economic and Financial case for change and the principles of Lean Employee
Resourcing”
Suitable for both private and public sectors
Feed-back from previous delegates:
“The speakers were most relevant because of the practical information given regarding the implementation of annualised hours” Wessex Water
“We thoroughly enjoyed the event, and each presentation had something of relevance to our organisation” Wedgwood
“ The Masterclass provided a good insight into the long journey required, it also showed that there are many potential solutions” United Biscuits
“A well structured seminar that raised and answered a lot of questions” Vets Now Ltd
“Very interesting day & a good introduction to what I am sure is a significant opportunity to Faccenda” Faccenda Foods
“a very informative event” George Wilkinson Ltd (Household goods manufacturer)
“An excellently organised event, very useful” the AA
“A really interesting and informative day” BAA
“The content of the course made you think how you could improve efficiency in your business” Scott Timber Limited
“A valuable course” GlaxoSmithKline
“There was great cross industry representation, with articulate and enthusiastic speakers”. Heinz
“A very enjoyable forum” Johnston Sweepers
“The forum had a good overall structure with a good variety of speakers” Kraft
“Very useful conference/seminar” Moog
“We found the forum rewarding and would recommend it to others” The Pall Corporation
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To find out more about the many services available from Working Time Solutions – including consultancy, software and Lean-ER itself – then please don’t hesitate to contact us or submit an information request and we shall be happy to find out how we can help. All our solutions start with talking and listening: we look forward to beginning the conversation soon.