Scheduling Software provides labor management solution.
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ShiftPlan® PRO allows companies to plan and print employees' schedules for weeks, months, or years in advance. It produces professional-looking schedules for up to 250 individual daily shifts and up to 500 employees. Users can schedule by department or position, email and produce PDF schedules, create scheduled-to-actual and tardy reports, and analyze employee punch trends. ShiftPlan PRO integrates with PayClock and QuickBooks® Pro and Premier.
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Lathem Time Launches ShiftPlan® Pro Employee Scheduling Software
Integration with Lathem s PayClock EZ, PayClock PRO and QuickBooks Provides Small Businesses a Complete Labor Management Solution
ATLANTA, Ga. - October 13, 2003 - Lathem Time Corporation, one of the world's leading designers and manufacturers of time and labor management products for small business, today announced the launch of ShiftPlan® PRO, an employee scheduling tool that allows companies to plan and print employees' schedules with just a few mouse clicks.
ShiftPlan PRO, which integrates with Lathem's No. 1-selling timekeeping system for small business. PayClock, and Intuit's QuickBooks® Pro and Premier, is an powerful scheduling system, allowing users to create staff schedules in seconds and avoid scheduling conflicts. With ShiftPlan PRO, users can schedule staff weeks, months, or even years in advance, allowing for better planning and avoidance of staff shortages.
Among its benefits, ShiftPlan PRO lets users produce clean, professional-looking schedules for up to 250 individual daily shifts and up to 500 employees; schedule by department or position; email and produce PDF schedules; create scheduled-to-actual and tardy reports; analyze employee punch trends to help reduce overtime pay and payroll costs; eliminate redundant data entry; and save time.
"Staff scheduling is one of the most time-consuming and difficult tasks managers face today," said Philip Seagraves, director of business development for Lathem Time. "ShiftPlan PRO not only saves users time by helping them create their schedules, it unites employee schedules with actual time worked to better manage staffing and payroll issues."
ShiftPlan PRO builds upon Lathem's ShiftPlan EZ product adding robust scheduling capabilities such as sick and vacation reporting, custom staff schedules, custom queries, on-call status, and schedule exporting to other applications such as Microsoft Excel. Employee names can be entered manually or automatically imported from PayClock EZ, PayClock PRO or QuickBooks Pro/Premier Editions 2003. Once employee names are in ShiftPlan PRO, the user defines shifts and builds employee schedules.
"When you combine the individual needs of employees with the need to have the right skills and coverage in the work environment, scheduling can be very complex, even fir small to
medium-size businesses," said Seagraves said. "ShiftPlan PRO makes managing even complex employee schedules simple and efficient by putting a visual tool in the hands of managers that allows them to actually plan work schedules in advance and print schedules for groups or individuals."
About Lathem Time Corporation
Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., Lathem Time is one of the world's leading designers and manufacturers of time and attendance products for small business. The company specializes in mechanical and automated employee time and attendance tracking systems, including the No. 1-selling automated system for small business, PayClock EZ. PayClock's automation reduces payroll preparation time by up to 80 percent and eliminates inaccuracies associated with manual calculations, saving up to 3 percent in payroll costs.
Founded in 1919 by George Lathem and his son Louie Lathem, Sr., Lathem Time remains a family-owned and operated company with 150 employees. Over 300,000 companies worldwide use a Lathem timekeeping product for managing their business. More infcrmation
can be found at www.lathem.com.
