The GM-X Work Effort subsystem integrates work effort scheduling, time reporting and expense reporting with the GM-X Project subsystem, for project management and tracking, and also with the GM-X Alert and Workflow subsystems for document management and workflow, to provide a comprehensive solution for sharing work between parties in a truly collaborative way across a network of trading relationships.
Because of its inherent flexibility, GM-X can be applied to many work execution and employee self-service processes, such as:
- Manufacturing execution by client organizations and contract manufacturers
- Maintenance work order execution by client organizations and their contractors
- Service management by client organizations and their contractors
- Project execution by client organizations and their contractors
Work items
- Supports any number of work effort types such as program, project, phase, activity, leave
- Supports any number of work effort purposes such as production, maintenance, R&D, leave
- Maintains start date and scheduled end date for individual work packages
- Maintains estimated and actual hours for individual work packages
- Maintains multi-level work packages (bills of labor)
- Work packages may be global or facility-specific
- Supports any number of user defined work package assignment roles
- Identifies the parties assigned to each work package, and their respective roles
- Parties assigned to work packages may be employees or contractors
- Each party's work package assignment has a start date and an optional end date
- Facilities may be designated for work packages, indicating where the work will be done
- Supports multiple work package statuses such as pending, in progress, completed
- Automatically tracks the status history for each work package
Timesheets
- Maintains timesheets and timesheet entries for work package assignments
- Supports employee or contractor self-service entry of timesheets
- Supports any number of user-defined timesheet roles such as worker, approver, manager
- Identifies the roles associated with each timesheet
- Tracks the status of each timesheet (pending, submitted, approved)
- Fully integrated with the Order subsystem to capture accrued work in process
- Fully integrated with the Project subsystem to capture actual progress versus plan
Expenses
- Supports any number of expense types
- Maintains expense reports for work package assignments
- Supports employee or contractor self-service entry of expense reports
- Tracks the status of each expense report (pending, submitted, approved)
- Fully integrated with the Order subsystem to capture accrued work in process