Workbrain for Transportation and Logistics

Globalization, mergers and acquisition, and rising fuel costs are forcing transportation companies to find cost savings. The largest operating costs that transportation companies have result from the management, scheduling, and administration of the labor force. By reducing labor costs even fractionally, transportation companies are able to realize tremendous improvements to profitability. That’s why transportation companies are choosing Workbrain workforce management for their geographically dispersed workforce.
The workforce management solution:
- Reduces costs through time and attendance automation
- Increases the scheduling efficiency of operations
- Ensure compliance with pay rules, work rules, and federal regulations
The Benefits

Workbrain helps large organizations with geographically dispersed workforces and very complex pay and work rules:
Reduce Labor Costs
Provide consistent, accurate and timely application of pay and work rules to eliminate over payments, excess overtime, errors in payroll and time and attendance - giving shareholders and employees greater confidence in management fairness and effectiveness.
Automate
Eliminate disparate and inaccurate employee management systems across divisions with one scalable, automated, pre-integrated IT management system. Use automated workflows, alerts and dashboards to eliminate paper forms, redundant data entry, and research and approval time.
Comply with Corporate Governance
Ensure consistent adherence to company / union work and pay rules for state and federal laws, including FMLA. Powerful analytics and predictive capabilities help monitor compliance and help your organization provide a single version of the corporate story with consistency period over period.
Workbrain for Transportation and Logistics Capabilities

Workbrain has a long history with Transportation and Logistics companies and many core product features are a direct result of this relationship. By standardizing and streamlining frequent labor management processes, Transportation firms enjoy the following benefits from Workbrain features:
- Time and Attendance (100% pay rule automation) increases net income by reducing operating costs. In complex unionized environments, time and attendance applies the correct pay and work rules to accurately captured employee time. This ensures elimination of overpayments and underpayments resulting in 1-6% gross payroll savings. Job ranking, skills, availability, and training are considered when assignments are created
- Scheduling functionality such as shift trading, schedule bidding, and staff scheduling allowing optimal scheduling and utilization of workforce
- Workforce Absence automates and integrates the entire absence and leave management process, providing a centralized system for managing, reporting and analyzing all absences and associated employee leave. With Workbrain Workforce Absence organizations gain the efficiencies of a single integrated process and unprecedented visibility and insight into absenteeism patterns and trends.
- Employee Transaction Manager allows employees to service their own administrative needs reducing demands on IT, minimizing supervisor workloads, and creating an improved work life experience. Delivered reports offer real-time operational risk visibility to help with governance initiatives. Helps coordinate the approval process between staff and management.
- Real-time reporting & exception-based alert provides immediate warning and visibility into how people are paid, levels of compliance, entitlement tracking, absence management, and discipline requirements. Reports are designed to deliver information relevant to the end user.
- Attendance Management provides further operational visibility into workforce operations. Offers visibility into violations of time and disciplinary actions taken. Helps with the administration of Lost Time and termination through employee tracking.
- Skills and Training functionality provides a central repository of employee qualifications that are used by Workbrain scheduling to ensure optimal workforce deployment.
