Manufacturing Payroll and HR Software
Built for Manufacturing, Designed for Agility
Streamline Payroll and HR and free up time to drive workforce efficiency for your organization.
One moment, you’re trying to analyze your bottom-line costs; the next, you’re ensuring compliance with OSHA and union regulations. But your role goes beyond cost reduction and compliance. You’re at the heart of your workforce—finding skilled labor, optimizing scheduling, and enabling an efficient production process. Through talent attraction, keeping employees engaged, and ensuring compliance, you help your organization manufacture high-quality products that meet customer demands. Despite the challenges, you know your work is essential to keeping production running smoothly, making it all worth it.
83%
83% of manufacturers cited attracting and retaining a quality workforce as their top challenge due to a skilled labor shortage.
63%
+63% of manufacturers report spending more than 2000 hours annually ensuring HR compliance.
39%
39% of manufacturing employees turnover within the first year.
Smarter Scheduling, Intuitive Labor Tracking, Greater Production
Optimize workforce planning with intuitive scheduling and ad-hoc reporting, enabling better resource management, cost savings, and accurate labor cost projections.
- Manage complex scheduling with ease through flexible tools that optimize staffing and production.
- Track costs to uncover savings opportunities and maximize resource allocation.
- Forecast future labor costs accurately with our patented time relational data model.
Seamless Position Management, Skilled Labor Attraction, Improved Retention
Attract and manage skilled labor with ease through AI-enabled hiring support, ongoing training, and position-based architecture.
- Utilize position-based architecture that saves position data regardless of employee promotions, department changes, or turnover.
- Leverage AI to generate job descriptions, summarize candidate qualifications, and identify top talent quickly in a competitive labor market.
- Enhance your workforce’s skills with ongoing training programs designed to improve retention, increase efficiency and reduce your labor costs.
Effortless Payroll, Smarter Compliance, Centralized Certification Management
Process payroll with fewer errors, automate pay calculations across diverse compensation structures, and ensure compliance with training and certification management within a single platform.
- Configure rules around shift differential or union rates in time & attendance, while hours and rates seamlessly transfer to payroll.
- Stay OSHA compliant with training deployment and incident reporting.
- Track employee licenses and certifications in a centralized location.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is a human capital management system?
A human capital management (HCM) system is a software solution that helps organizations manage and optimize their workforce. HCM systems typically include a range of tools and features including recruitment and onboarding to assist with new hires, applicant tracking, benefits administration, performance management, time and attendance tracking, and payroll management. HCM systems often include integrations with other workforce management systems and software and are designed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of HR operations.
How can HCM software help manufacturers manage labor costs and workforce planning?
PrimePay’s HCM software helps manufacturers control labor costs by automating time tracking, shift scheduling, and overtime calculations. With real-time insights, manufacturers can adjust staffing levels based on production demand, preventing overstaffing and costly inefficiencies. With connected payroll and HR, PrimePay empowers manufacturing organizations with accurate labor cost reporting, helping manufacturers stay on budget while optimizing workforce productivity.
How does payroll software streamline wage calculations and union compliance for manufacturing?
PrimePay’s payroll software automates complex wage calculations, including overtime, shift differentials, and union dues deductions. It ensures compliance with OSHA, FLSA, and union labor agreements by accurately tracking hours worked and applying the correct pay rates. With automated tax filing and compliance reporting, manufacturers can reduce administrative errors and avoid costly penalties while ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time.
What key HR challenges in manufacturing can HCM software solve?
Manufacturing companies often face high turnover, workforce management challenges, and compliance difficulties compared to other industries. PrimePay’s HCM solution helps by automating hiring and onboarding, tracking training and certifications, enhancing workforce scheduling, and improving employee engagement through self-service portals and performance management tools. With PrimePay, manufacturers can focus on production while ensuring a fully compliant, well-managed workforce.
Do manufacturing companies typically have dedicated HR departments?
Yes, manufacturing organizations usually have an HR department, even if it is not a separate one. HR duties, such as recruitment, hiring, screening, and compensation, are essential in any manufacturing organization.
How does HR software improve efficiency in manufacturing operations?
Managing everyday HR tasks efficiently is critical for the success of any manufacturing organization. PrimePay’s HR software provides an array of time-saving tools, such as job board integration, and self-service portals, which help HR teams streamline their core HR services and focus on more strategic tasks with the help of HR management software.
How does HR software help manufacturers attract and retain skilled workers in a competitive labor market?
By offering AI-enabled hiring solutions, engagement tools, and an integrated learning management system that support continuous career development, PrimePay’s HR solution helps manufacturers acquire and maintain skilled labor.
What is position management in HCM?
Many leading HR software solutions still couple employee and position data together, meaning that HR teams lose important strategic workforce planning data anytime an employee terms. Unlike other HCM software, PrimePay’s position management core architecture keeps the position and employee profile distinct in the platform. This separation enables businesses to easily transfer employee profile information (such as contact details, performance data, and compensation history) across the organization while ensuring position data (like job title, department, and salary range) remains intact, allowing for streamlined employee movement across roles or departments without losing critical position-related information. Additionally, PrimePay’s patented time relational data model provides real-time insights into staffing needs, vacancy trends, and labor costs, helping healthcare providers optimize workforce planning and patient coverage.