Empowering RTL to streamline and improve operations
RTL designs and manufactures a substantial percentage of New Zealand’s road signs nationally and RTL employs a total of 45 staff and management and operates across 4,000 square metres of factory and office space located in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Invercargill.
RTL utilises Empower, a labour management software, to gauge the productivity of its labour force. To streamline its operations, RTL enlisted the services of Xenia Suite to create an interface between MYOB GreenTree and Empower.
The interface developed by Xenia Suite facilitates the automatic transfer of new orders from GreenTree to Empower. This integration eliminates the need for redundant data entry, effectively merging GreenTree and Empower into a cohesive and efficient software solution. The interface ensures a seamless and integrated experience, consolidating GreenTree and Empower into what the supply company describes as a unified “world class” software solution.
Also, the automatic data transfer minimises the need for double data entry, enhancing operational efficiency. The successful development of the interface between MYOB GreenTree and Empower by Xenia Suite has significantly improved RTL’s labour recovery, fostering a more streamlined and efficient labour management process.
“Through the utilisation of Empower, we effectively manage our daily, weekly, and monthly workload by assigning tasks and jobs to our workshop staff while monitoring actual versus budgeted times at both the job and task levels for each staff member,” says Kourosh Darvish, production manager at RTL.
Darvish says that this specialised software, designed for manufacturers, plays a “pivotal role in tracking and reporting jobs and tasks down to the necessary task level, as well as tracking and reporting times down to the crucial individual workshop staff level.”
Empower software has significantly enhanced RTL’s performance, as evidenced by the following Key Performance Indicators:
• A notable reduction of approximately 20% in time on jobs.
• A 50% decrease in downtime and unaccounted time.
• An 80 to 90% reduction in the significant time slippage around promptness at the start of the day, break times, and lunch times at the end of the day. These improvements have collectively led to substantial time savings, resulting in a positive impact on our daily production and overall profitability.
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