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June 2023
How Global Enterprises Can Focus On Optimizing Employee Scheduling
Large enterprises with diverse workforces face challenges in managing employee schedules due to varying costs, locations, availability, skill sets and certifications. A cost-optimized schedule helps enterprises manage resources efficiently, ensuring the right people with the right skills are working on the right projects at the right time.
Replicon Product Updates – Q2, 2023
Simplify Project Time Management With Ease
Streamline time entry and reduce errors with project-dependent timesheet custom fields. Project managers can set up custom fields to capture additional data specific to their project whenever users enter time against it.
Learn MoreProject resources can easily look up key details for their projects, such as project managers and start/end dates, right from their Home page.
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TimeBill Plus customers now have the ability to upload their own logo to personalize billing reports sent to clients.
Add more details into timesheet audit and export reports, with project codes in the Timesheet Audit Trail report and time entry approval date in the Time Entry Details report.
Experience Replicon’s Improved AI-powered ZeroTime™
Never miss a billing minute again! Automatically capture accurate employee time spent on:
Microsoft Office applications such as Outlook Email, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Browsers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox
Get quicker and faster recommendations by using “#” and “@“ for time entries.
Benefit from fully configurable Collector deployments, giving the ultimate flexibility to administrators. Manage your user groups on your applications, and ZeroTime will automatically adhere to your application-specific user configurations.
Empower your employees to explore and learn about ZeroTime Collectors, while maintaining the same administrative control that you’ve always loved with Replicon.
Replicon’s Partnership With SAP Just Got Stronger
ProjectTime for services organization certified by SAP.
Extended the Replicon SAP-endorsed application to:
Support EPPM projects, which means an additional module, additional type of projects on SAP S4/HANA cloud
Included time for pay integration into SAP SuccessFactors ECP
Polaris Product Updates – Q2, 2023
RESOURCING
Cost-optimized Resource Allocation
Now, you can know the cost impact of a requested resource early on while requesting a resource for your project. This feature will help project managers understand how each resource request impacts their bottom line.SmartMatch now will consider cost of a resource, giving the resource manager the best fit.
Learn MoreCreate Versatile Resource Pools
With this amazing new functionality, you can create a cluster of resources for purposes other than just allocating a project or a task. This enables flexible grouping of resources into clients, vendors or/and custom pools. The same resource can also be shared across multiple pools.
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Flexibility for Resource Data Imports
Using a single import you can now import resource requests and resource allocations at the same time, letting you associate the two together. Now, you have the flexibility to import:
Only resource requests
Only resource allocations
Both resource requests and resource allocations
Learn MorePROJECTS
Auto Calculation of Work Remaining
Completion of tasks is critical to successful project delivery. Now, by assigning hours to each resource at the task level, this feature enables:
A true picture of the work remaining across resources for each task
Project managers to manage tasks better
The system to auto calculate the actual work remaining for each task
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Estimated Cost at Completion
Now, along with estimated hours at completion, you can also track the estimated cost at completion for projects and tasks. This gives you the complete picture so that you can identify budget and margin risks well ahead of time, and take corrective action.
Learn MoreCost View for Project Budget Summary
In the project summary view, to ensure the project manager has real-time cost perspective besides time perspective, you can now see a comparative view of Budgeted/Estimated/Allocated Cost vs the Actual Cost.
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PROJECT PORTFOLIO
Rich Project Portfolio Dashboard
In Polaris PPM, get a complete overview of the health of your project portfolio in a single view, including:
How the portfolio budget has been allocated
The total estimate at completion for all projects, versus their budgets
The number of projects over budget or over schedule
The size of your portfolio’s request backlog, broken down by approval stage
Learn MoreExpense Capture for True Cost
The new expense capture capability introduced for project portfolios, along with existing labor cost tracking, ensures complete and accurate project costs. The expense module offers key functionalities such as:
Expense types
Automated mileage and tax calculations
Business workflows
Learn MoreFrom the Replicon Blog
What Is a Swing Shift?
Swing shifts provide strong staff support for businesses operating 24/7 and ones with peak-hour surges. Unlike traditional schedules, swing shifts optimize resource utilization, shift timings, and working paradigm, allowing businesses to meet customer demands without grueling long-hour shifts. Read our blog to understand how the swing shift works and its benefits.
Learn MoreWhat Is a 2-2-3 Work Schedule and How to Implement It?
Leveraging the right work schedule enhances resource management, efficiency, and customer service. Employers can choose a work schedule that suits both employees and customers, such as the 2-2-3 work schedule. Check out our blog post for more details on implementing this work schedule, its advantages and disadvantages, and a free template for your business.
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What Is an 80-Hour Work Week & Should You Avoid It?
Working beyond the 40-hour workweek temporarily due to heavy workloads, deadlines, or peak seasons is common. However, there are advocates for an 80+ hour workweek, which is double the standard hours. While it has led to success for some, it demands dedication, passion, discipline, and ethics. Read the blog to explore more about the 80-hour work week, and check if it suits your organization or not.
Learn MoreAdtalem Fosters Employee Empowerment & Accountability With Replicon
Adtalem Global Education Inc. — formerly DeVry Education Group — is a leading global education provider. With over 18,000 employees supporting 200,000 students in their internationally-spanning classrooms and offices, Adtalem is dedicated to fulfilling its mission of empowerment for not only students but its vast staff as well.
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