
Each employee is issued a bar-coded ID badge. Whether the employee is paid hourly or by piecework, the TAS system can handle it. Even group incentive is possible using TAS.
An electronic time card file is populated with each swipe of an ID badge. Even if the communication connection to the time clock is lost, employees can still swipe their badges because each clock can hold approximately 1000 transactions!
Each employee is assigned to a shift schedule. The shift schedule defines start / end times, as well as lunch breaks, and how overtime is calculated. There are also algorithms to tell the computer to round up, down, or to the nearest 15 minutes, for example.
Not only do production employees clock in and out, they can also clock for department changes and off standard situations. Each of these categories of time are captured and are matched up to the scanned bundle tickets.
The payroll department scans employee gum sheets, and then runs the "Auto Time" function. This program matches the bar-coded bundle ticket information with the in and out times and off-standard times recorded in the electronic time card file. Any discrepancies are recorded and reported. The payroll department can then audit the areas and make changes where necessary.
At the end of the week, the payroll department processes the hourly employees by running "Auto Time" again. This process automatically creates payroll vouchers for each of these employees.