Whiteboard: Declutter Your Timesheet With Favorites

Sometimes timesheets can get cluttered. There are too many projects. Some don’t even apply to you. Some have similar names, but still don’t apply to you. What if you entered hours into one of those similarly named projects by mistake.  It happens.

Show Only the Projects You’re Working on Now

Try Timesheet Favorites.

Pick only the projects you’re working on now. Your timesheet becomes 1,000% shorter. You aren’t confused or misdirected to projects you’re not working on.  You’re in and out in no time.

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Automate your Manufacturing Shop

 

Manufacturing managers!

You know you need to automate your shop.

• But you’re not sure how long processes take
• You’re not sure which processes to trim
• And you’re not sure where to start

Why not start with a barcode scanner? And Standard Time®?

You’ll learn:

• What consumes the most time
• What costs you the most
• And where bottlenecks occur

Then you can trim… and test again. All with just a barcode scanner and Standard Time.

http://www.stdtime.com/manufacturing.htm

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Interview: Project Rollups

The Project Tasks view shows projects on wide rows with bold text.  Under those projects are subprojects and tasks.  The values in those tasks are rolled up to the sub-project and project rows as totals.  The term “rollup” is just another way of saying totals.

Project Task Dashboard

Here are some task fields that are totaled up at the subproject and project levels:

1. Duration, Actual work, Remaining work
2. Start date, due date, and finish date
3. Client and salary costs
4. Quoted costs
5. Material costs

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Task Status from the Mfg Floor

 

Is this scene familiar in your manufacturing shop?

Actor1: Where’s that big job?

Actor2: What big job?

Actor1: You know… the one we started last week.

Actor2: Oh yeah, that one. I don’t know, boss.

Fail!

Here’s how they do it with Standard Time:

1. Pull out a barcode scanner
2. Scan the job status
3. Scan the task status
4. Look up and see it on the big screen

Upgrade your manufacturing shop

With a barcode scanner

And Standard Time!

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Short intro: Dan’s Day

Here’s a snapshot of Dan the consultant’s day.  Checking employee progress. Checking project status, and tasks. Clients, customers, and vendors. And logging his own time on projects he’s managing and working on. As consultants, that’s what we do.

Consultants use Standard Time® Everyday

But Dan has a secret weapon: ST. It does a lot of the things we all used to do manually.  Consider these possibilities for your own consultancy.

1. Checking timesheets and sending email notifications
2. Checking for upcoming or overdue tasks
3. Watching for too many hours on critical tasks
4. Accruing PTO and comp time
5. Sending email notifications when projects are approaching the end
6. Looking into the future for project revenue predictions
7. Project management charts, like triangles and analytics
8. Syncing with Android and iOS devices
9. These are just some of the things ST does automatically. They are things we used to do manually. But now there’s time for more important things.

Dan’s happy. And the client is happy.

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Short intro: Employee Availability Graph

Choose View, Project Resource Allocation to see an employee availability graph.

Get the Right Employee for Your Project

Actually, the availability graph is just the inverse of the allocation graph. In other words, when an employee is dedicated to certain projects and tasks, they are not available. So it’s the opposite.

How do you get the graph to work? Just assign users to projects and/or tasks. That’s it. The graph automatically works.  It either takes a percentage of a person’s daily schedule for a project, or it takes the duration of the tasks their assigned to.  Either one. But that’s all you have to do to make it work.

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Barcode Inventory and Bill of Materials

 

Here’s a new inventory management idea for your manufacturing shop! Combine the automation of barcodes and scripts. Try these steps in Standard Time® • Scan your Bill of Materials to deduct every item from inventory • When inventory drops, items are automatically reordered • Now scan them as they arrive at the back door • Inventory levels spring back like magic!

Get Standard Time and a barcode scanner today!

See more at: http://www.stdtime.com

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