Lathem Time News
LATHEM TIME LAUNCHES SHIFTPLAN™ PRO EMPLOYEE
SCHEDULING SOFTWARE
Integration with Lathem's PayClock EZ,
PayClock PRO and QuickBooks Provides Small Businesses a Complete
Labor Management Solution
ATLANTA, Ga. – October 13,
2003 – Lathem Time
Corporation, one of the world’s leading designers and manufacturers
of time and labor management products for small business, today
announced the launch of ShiftPlan®
PRO, an employee scheduling tool that allows companies to plan
and print employees’ schedules with just a few mouse clicks.
ShiftPlan PRO, which integrates
with Lathem’s No. 1-selling timekeeping system for small business,
PayClock®, and Intuit’s QuickBooks® Pro
and Premier, is an powerful scheduling system, allowing users
to create staff schedules in seconds and avoid scheduling conflicts.
With ShiftPlan PRO, users can schedule staff weeks, months,
or even years in advance, allowing for better planning and avoidance
of staff shortages.
Among its benefits, ShiftPlan PRO lets users produce clean,
professional-looking schedules for up to 250 individual daily
shifts and up to 500 employees; schedule by department or position;
email and produce PDF schedules; create scheduled-to-actual
and tardy reports; analyze employee punch trends to help reduce
overtime pay and payroll costs; eliminate redundant data entry;
and save time.
“Staff scheduling is one of the most time-consuming and difficult
tasks managers face today,” said Philip Seagraves, director
of business development for Lathem Time. “ShiftPlan PRO
not only saves users time by helping them create their schedules,
it unites employee schedules with actual time worked to better
manage staffing and payroll issues.”
ShiftPlan PRO builds upon Lathem’s ShiftPlan EZ product adding
robust scheduling capabilities such as sick and vacation reporting,
custom staff schedules, custom queries, on-call status, and
schedule exporting to other applications such as Microsoft Excel.
Employee names can be entered manually or automatically imported
from PayClock EZ, PayClock PRO or QuickBooks Pro/Premier Editions
2003. Once employee names are in ShiftPlan PRO, the user
defines shifts and builds employee schedules.
“When
you combine the individual needs of employees with the need
to have the right skills and coverage in the work environment,
scheduling can be very complex, even for small to medium-size
businesses,” said Seagraves said. “ShiftPlan PRO makes
managing even complex employee schedules simple and efficient
by putting a visual tool in the hands of managers that allows
them to actually plan work schedules in advance and print schedules
for groups or individuals.”
About Lathem Time
Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., Lathem Time is one of the
world's leading designers and manufacturers of time and attendance
products for small business. The company specializes in mechanical
and automated employee time and attendance tracking systems,
including the No. 1-selling automated system for small business,
PayClock EZ. PayClock's automation reduces payroll preparation
time by up to 80 percent and eliminates inaccuracies associated
with manual calculations, saving up to 3 percent in payroll
costs.
Founded in 1919 by George Lathem and his son Louie Lathem,
Sr., Lathem Time remains a family-owned and operated company
with 150 employees. Over 300,000 companies worldwide use a Lathem
timekeeping product for managing their business. More information
can be found at
www.lathem.com.
Lathem and PayClock are registered trademarks of Lathem Time
Corporation. Intuit, the Intuit logo, Quicken, QuickBooks, QuickBooks
Pro, QuickBooks Premier, TurboTax, ProSeries and Lacerte, among
others, are registered trademarks and/or registered service
marks of Intuit Inc. in the United States and other countries.
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