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Getting Started with Report Builder (Last Modified on June 26, 2024)
Reports are essential in business for conveying information, problem-solving, and recommending actions. But tailoring them to specific needs isn’t always easy. With the Report Builder app, you can effortlessly create custom reports from your Appward data.
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Getting Started with Admin (Last Modified on March 25, 2024)
The Admin app is where you can create new Appward users. You can configure each user’s individual access levels as well as define platform-wide settings for everyone. This guide will walk you through the process of adding new users and utilizing the Roles app to set up your organization’s default app configurations.
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Getting Started with Receiving (Last Modified on February 27, 2024)
The Receiving app is used to document the times, dates and locations of shipments received by your organization. This guide will cover how to follow up on Purchase Orders and receive your ordered items.
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Getting Started with Sales Orders (Last Modified on February 26, 2024)
A sales order is a seller’s response to a customer’s purchase, confirming sale details and indicating intent to fulfill the order. Its primary purpose is to communicate order specifics to internal fulfillment departments. This guide will cover how you can use the Sales Orders app to efficiently manage sales orders, link contacts, sales reps, commission schedules and approvals. It documents order details for seamless, transparent transactions with customers.
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Getting Started with Purchase Requests (Last Modified on February 26, 2024)
Purchase Requests is an app designed for tracking and managing your company’s procurement requests. With this app, you can keep precise oversight of purchase-related activities from request submission to final approval and fulfillment. This guide will cover everything you need to know about the Purchase Requests app, including how to add new requests, gain approval and ultimately put in an order.
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Getting Started with Purchase Orders (Last Modified on February 26, 2024)
As the companion app to Purchase Requests, Purchase Orders allows you to efficiently initiate and oversee the purchases made by your organization. This guide will cover everything you need to know about the app including the connection between requests and orders, how to add new orders and the process of following up.
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Getting Started with Special Events Director (Last Modified on February 21, 2024)
Special Events Director is a companion app to Special Events. It is used to create and manage organized events such as conferences, summits and parties. In this guide, we’ll cover how to add, view and manage every detail of your events.
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Getting Started with Pinpoint (Last Modified on February 22, 2024)
Whether you’re in charge of a warehouse, factory, shop, or office, understanding the location and condition of your assets is essential for efficient resource allocation. This guide is designed to help you navigate Pinpoint’s features, offering insights into managing personnel, assets, projects, and work orders through a comprehensive, bird’s-eye view of your entire business.
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Getting Started with Tours (Last Modified on February 16, 2024)
Tours is Appward’s solution for easy onboarding of new users to all of our applications. It creates a simulated experience that takes a user through the general layout of an application, its add process, edit process and all other features of the app.
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Getting Started with Insights (Last Modified on February 21, 2024)
Insights bring your organization’s data to life. You can create customized views for any topic, keeping track of the information that matters most. This guide covers everything you need to know about Insights, from creating them to sharing with your team, and how they can help you extract valuable information from your apps.
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Getting Started with Budgets (Last Modified on May 06, 2024)
Understanding your organization’s finances is not just crucial; it’s the cornerstone of sustainable success and growth. With Appward’s Budgets app, you gain access to a comprehensive suite of features designed to empower you in every aspect of financial management.
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Getting Started with Expenses (Last Modified on February 22, 2024)
Effective expense management is crucial for financial control and timely reimbursements. Outdated systems create administrative burdens and increase the risk of oversight. With the Expenses app, Employees can easily list expenses, attach receipts, and create reports.
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Getting Started with Markups (Last Modified on February 08, 2024)
Simplify your project document reviews with Appward’s Markups app. Eliminate the risks of oversights and lack of control inherent in manual processes, especially in complex projects.
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Getting Started with Conversations (Last Modified on July 17, 2024)
Welcome to Conversations – a tool for conducting and maintaining records of interactions with your team, partners, customers and vendors. In this guide, we’ll walk you through each style of Conversation, how to use and track each style and go over how Conversations is used across numerous Appward apps.
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Getting Started with Wages (Last Modified on February 05, 2024)
Inconsistent pay can harm a business, causing unhappy employees, high turnover, and financial losses. It’s crucial to address this to keep your team happy, stable, and make better financial choices. With Appward’s Wages app, you can customize base rates for company positions, aligning them with industry standards, internal equity, or performance metrics to match your organizational goals.
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Getting Started with Support Contracts (Last Modified on March 29, 2024)
Appward’s Support Contracts simplifies Service Level Agreement management by centralizing agreements. This helps ensure consistent service and avoids missed renewals, ultimately boosting customer satisfaction and revenue for businesses. This guide will provide you with all the necessary details of navigating and using Support Contracts.
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Getting Started with Notes (Last Modified on February 02, 2024)
This guide will cover everything you need to know about the app including how to add and organize notes, compose the perfect note and share your notes with your team.
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Getting Started with Deliveries (Last Modified on January 19, 2024)
Appward’s Deliveries app simplifies delivery management. Its user-friendly design and features allow you to track delivery status, customer comments, and communicate with your team effortlessly. Receive timely updates on delays or successful deliveries through notifications sent directly to your workspace.
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Using File Explorer (Last Modified on January 15, 2024)
The File Explorer app seamlessly integrates with every application on Appward. As you navigate through various apps within the platform, you’ll find a dedicated Files tab in the details flyout of each record. Additionally, if preferred, you can access the File Explorer as a standalone application. This versatile tool allows you to efficiently manage, download, and update your organization’s crucial files, whether they are stored in the cloud or locally.
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Getting Started with Forums (Last Modified on January 12, 2024)
With Appward’s Forums app, organizations can simplify communication through our centralized platform. Employees can coordinate and engage in discussions within main forums, sub-forums, or through direct messaging.
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Introduction
Appward's Labor Tracking app offers a comprehensive solution for monitoring employee productivity. Easily track work hours, compare estimates with actual time spent, and generate customizable reports for insightful labor metrics. With full transparency, ensure tasks are allocated effectively, promoting efficiency and productivity across the board.
Let's get started
To open the Labor Tracking app, go to the Manufacturing category of the main navigation bar and select Labor Tracking.
When you open the app, the first thing you'll see is the Labor Entry tab, which will serve as the main hub for tracking time spent on labor.
Note: The functionality of this app relies on data from other applications, such as the Employees app. If you haven't set up any employee profiles yet, you won't be able to begin using Labor Tracking.
Let's go over each of the tabs from left to right.
Labor Entry - This tab is where you can begin the process of accurately tracking the time an employee spends on a labor task.
Allocations - The Allocations tab is where you can view a list of submitted labor entries.
Insights - This tab is used to provide an analysis of your organization's labor data. You can configure highly-customizable queries that give you a full picture of measurable components such as employee time spent on specific projects.
How to add a labor entry
There are five steps to creating a labor entry, let's go over them.
Step 1: Employee
The first step of the labor entry process is to select an employee from a list directly imported from your organization's Employees app.
On the left side of this list, you'll find a convenient sorting feature for your employees. A highlighted letter signifies the presence of an employee whose first name begins with that letter. Conversely, a greyed-out letter indicates the absence of employees with names starting with that letter in the list.
To select an employee, simply click on the employees name in the list. This will highlight them and make step 2 available.
Step 2: Project
The second step is to select a project that will be associated with the selected employee who is adding a labor entry.
To choose a project, simply search for the desired project and select it from the list of options available.
The Labor Tracking app features many tablet and mobile friendly features. We'll cover them throughout this guide.
Searching with keypad - When using a tablet or handheld device, you can search records more conveniently by using a keypad instead of a traditional keyboard. Simply click on the keypad icon to enable this feature.
This will bring up the Enter Project Number popup, where you can use the tablet-friendly keypad to search for a project.
Step 3: Subassembly
After selecting the project you'd like to track labor on, you have the option of selecting a subassembly of the project.
If there are no subassemblies associated with the specific labor you are trying to track, select the Work steps with no subassembly option.
Step 4: Actions
Narrowing it down even further, step 4 is where you can select specific actions related to a project & subassembly.
You can also select the Work steps with no action option if you wish to look for a work step (in step 5) that has no actions.
Step 5: Step
In step 5, you can select the specific step in relation to the subassembly selected that will be worked on.
This list provides you with the name of the step , the specific work order, and the required skills to complete the step.
Step 6: Enter hours spent
The last step of the labor tracking process is to enter the hours spent. You can use the tablet friendly keypad-style buttons to enter in the hours spent on the labor task, or use text entry by typing in the value yourself.
Similar to step 2 where we went over how to search for projects using a keypad, you can enter in the hours spent on a labor task by using the keypad found in step 6.
When you're ready to submit, simply click on the submit button to create your labor entry.
Additional settings - To access additional settings, click on the settings button found in the top right corner of the app screen. This will bring up the Settings popup, where you can decide if you'd like to clear the screen when a new employee is selected. This is especially helpful when multiple employees need to use the same device to track their labor.
Viewing allocations
To view a list of your organization's created labor entries, navigate to the Allocations tab. Let's cover what's available here.
Allocation ID - A unique identifier assigned to each labor allocation.
Total count - The total number of hours of labor entries in the list.
Name - The name, title, and image of the employee associated with the labor allocation.
Duration - The length of time or duration of the labor allocation.
Start date -The date when the labor allocation begins.
End date - The date when the labor allocation ends.
Project - The project to which the labor allocation is assigned.
Customer - The customer company associated with the labor allocation. This customer is assigned during the creation of the projects record.
Work order - The work order associated with the labor allocation..
Work order step - The particular step of the work order corresponding to the labor allocation.
Frontline features of Labor Tracking
Insights - This tab is used to analyze data from your organization’s labor allocations. Using Insights, you have the opportunity to uncover and make use of valuable information related to labor types, statuses, actions and more. For more on Insights, please check out our Getting Started with Insights guide.
Posts - In Appward, a post is a comment that can be liked or replied to directly by other members of your organization. Within Labor Tracking, a common way of using posts is to write to management or other team members with comments or notes regarding a task.
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