Enterprise technology encompasses a wide range of systems designed to streamline and optimize complex business processes. ERP, HCM, T&A, MES – what do all of these acronyms have in common? They are all mission-critical systems that enable enterprise organizations to run their businesses. These systems serve as a “price of admission” to running efficient and transparent multi-national operations.
Other prevalent commonalities exist as outcomes of these same, valuable systems. Common challenges within enterprise technology include:
- System Silos: Siloed functionality and data structures
- People Focus: Little to no connection to personas in the factory operating environment, including Operations Managers, Front-Line Leaders, and Operators or Technicians
- Horizontal Focus: Primarily served through horizontal platforms, focused on a broad array of functionality across vast industries, segments, or verticals.
Overcoming Inefficiencies in Enterprise Technology
Despite these inefficiencies, the operating environment is resilient and circumvents these issues by administering:
- Additional people to manage and consolidate disparate data sources
- Spreadsheets to translate the data to real-time information, consumable by operations personnel
- Direct, personal engagement at all levels of the factory operating environment to communicate dynamic production needs
The most prevalent, industry-accepted tech stacks serving the industrial enterprise have long, underserved the largest subset of employees within an organization.
The result?
- Increased cost
- A widening skills gap
- Costly attrition
- Lack of visibility to site/department level metrics,
- Reduced flexibility
- An over-burdened factory workforce
How can operating environments harness the power of critical enterprise systems, while providing purpose-built solutions specific to their factory personnel? Let’s take a deeper dive into the problem, propose a solution, and evaluate possible outcomes to serve the industrial enterprise’s critical challenges.
The Biggest Challenge in Industrial Workplaces
Technology in the industrial environments is primarily serving enterprise needs or hard industrial assets. Due to this, people within factory environments are underserved – resulting in manual consolidation of siloed data, mental fatigue and lack of transparency/flexibility/autonomy expected by today’s workforce.
While enterprise technology has made strides in optimizing processes and managing assets, it often neglects the human element within industrial operations. This disconnect creates inefficiencies, as factory personnel must bridge gaps between systems not designed with their workflows in mind. By failing to integrate enterprise technology with the needs of the frontline workforce, organizations risk overburdening their employees and missing opportunities to enhance productivity and morale.
Optimize Your Workforce With Indeavor
Leverage the power of an industry-specific People Operations Platform to Plan, Schedule, Manage and Engage your workforce. Harness and optimize the power of existing systems/data sources – purpose-built to focus on Industry specific workflows, including:
- Demand management and labor standard alignment
- Alignment of personnel, incorporating skills, to demand requirements
- Inclusion of management rules, including union and compliance requirements
- Flexibility and engagement of the workforce through mobile and table
By integrating seamlessly with existing enterprise technology, Indeavor ensures that workforce management becomes a cohesive part of the broader operational strategy. This connection not only eliminates data silos but also transforms enterprise technology into a tool that actively empowers the factory workforce. The result is a more dynamic, engaged, and productive team, aligned with the organization’s operational goals.
Learn More About Indeavor’s People Operations Platform
A People Operations Platform quickly becomes the first pure cross-persona tool leveraged to drive operations and profitability. Each level of the organization receives integrated value:
- Factory Manager: visibility of differentiated labor/cost analytics
- Department Leadership and Administrators: Proactive planning platform and departmental metric visibility
- Front Line Leaders: Rule-driven tools to enable complex, real-time decision-making
- Operators and Technicians: Flexibility and autonomy towards schedule and work requirements
To learn more about Indeavor’s Industry-leading People Operations Platform and to arrange a complimentary consultation click here to request a demo.
About the Author
Bradley Jones leverages his Manufacturing Technology and Operations background to serve the Global Indeavor consumer base. To learn more or get in touch, connect with Brad on LinkedIn.
