JCL Logistics
Solution: ATOSS Logistics Solution
Usage: AT, CH, DE, NL
Quantity: Employees 1,300
The JCL Group is an owner-operated logistics specialist for leading European brands in the paper, steel, chemical, beverages, furniture and bicycle sectors. The company headquartered in Baar (Switzerland) drives innovation, tradition, mobility and logistics forward with its core products Road & Rail, Air & Ocean, Contract Logistics, Home Delivery You and Customs. Christoph Unger, Head of Digitalization, explains how the innovative company achieves this with workforce management.
How are you using workforce management today?
We first implemented ATOSS in Germany in December 2020. Austria followed in 2021, Switzerland in 2022. We are currently working on its implementation in the Netherlands – so three out of four clients with 1,300 employees are live. As a company, we are constantly looking for new, innovative solutions. In this connection, we have decided to implement central digital workforce management with the goal of a uniform system landscape. In addition to the benefits of integrated time management and workforce scheduling, the Staff Center allows our employees to plan their absence independently and to apply for it directly. An automated interface with our IT system ensures consistent data in real time.
What is the most significant benefit of your workforce management solution?
More efficient processes reduce the workloads in our HR department while saving costs at the same time. We are convinced that a successful future depends on us driving digital solutions forward and focusing more strongly on our environment. So we appreciate the fact that holiday requests can only be submitted digitally and we’re saving paper accordingly. We also have much greater transparency. The solution allows us to generate multi-country reports, as we are working with a uniform personnel number logic. This ranges from a general reconciliation with our IT system to more complex reports with holiday/overtime balances by country/location/division.
What future challenges will you be solving with workforce management?
We see great potential in extending the reporting functions with ATOSS as the central system. In order to organize our workforce scheduling even more efficiently, we are considering linking up the solution with our warehouse management system (WMS). We are also interested in the possibility of making personnel planning even more target-oriented by taking the employee qualifications and the shipping volume communicated by the WMS into account. In future, the WMS could also generate long-term shipping volume forecasts, enabling us to manage our personnel requirements more efficiently.
Source: ATOSS Customer JCL Logistics | ATOSS Annual Report 2022
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