Kronos helps Indian brewery improve productivity with new automated solution

Kronos found the perfect workforce-management solution for SAB Miller India.

For more than four decades, Kronos has been helping manufacturing companies all over the world increase productivity and employee engagement with every automated workforce system, and that goes for its Canadian affiliate, Kronos Canada. The company has a long history of success stories and testimonials from clients whom it helped make workplaces run more efficiently.

One notable example involved the Indian division of SABMiller Plc., one of the world’s top brewers. As always, Kronos found the right solution.

Reduced reliance on manual processes

SABMiller Plc. produces more than 200 beer brands in more than 75 countries, including Foster’s, Miller High Life, and Indus Pride. But SAB Miller India was dealing with numerous organizational efficiencies. Manual data collection and reporting were leading to inaccurate insights, which delayed strategic decision making. In addition, visibility into workforce availability and productivity were hampered by disparate manual systems, which could not deliver a single, reliable record of all worker information.

SAB Miller needed an automated workforce system that would reduce reliance on manual processes, provide a unified system to manage all plants’ workforces, deliver worker information in real time, and improve compliance with reliable records of employee data. For this, the company turned to Kronos.

Kronos recommended its Workforce Central program. This automated workforce system helped SAB Miller improve productivity, control labour costs, and minimize compliance risk. The brewer gained access to real-time insights, which optimized attendance, absence management, scheduling, and employee engagement, seamlessly and efficiently.

“With the Kronos solution, we’re able to address our workforce complexities through data-driven decision making and improve employee satisfaction, via self-service capabilities, for a dramatic increase in overall productivity,” said Ranendra Datta, vice president and CIO of SAB Miller India.

Since adopting Kronos’ system, SAB Miller has streamlined its operations across all plants. Automated enforcement of consistent, accurate pay and work rules has reduced labour costs, while availability management and scheduling for complex and multi-shift deployments have improved significantly. Complete automation has resulted in more accurate payroll processing, and self-service capabilities have improved employee engagement – which has led to higher worker satisfaction and morale.

For more information, contact Kronos.

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