Synerion is one of the market leaders in workforce management solutions.  Its solutions serve as a management tool in organizations ranging from 50 to 20,000+ employees, in a variety of business segments, including manufacturing, municipalities, retail, healthcare, long term care facilities, and more. Synerion has over 5,500 clients around the world and its solutions are used by more than 4,000,000 employees.

The modular design of Synerion's solutions is the key to its success in vertical markets. The "core system - TimeKeeper" enables you to design the perfect solution to fit the needs of your business by giving you more than everything you need to track your employees time and attendance behaviours, while providing accurate calculations and eliminating the errors caused by manual work.

Synerion's versatility allows you to "snap-on" modules to best suit your needs such as: TimeCosting, TimeScheduling, Absence Planning, iBrowse (Web-Enabled Solution), TimeKeeper Analytics, Overtime Equalization, TimeBank, Benefit Accruals, and Hotel Staff Costing add-ons all driven by the powerful and efficient MS SQL engine.

The end result is a time and attendance software solution customized for your needs saving you thousands of dollars in operational costs per year.

Company Profile

Synerion is one of the market leaders in workforce management solutions. We provide advanced and comprehensive time and labor management systems, fully integrated with Payroll, equipped to respond effectively to any HR challenge.

The Synerion software solutions serve as a management tool at over 5,500 clients worldwide, and are used by more than 4,000,000 employees. Our solutions are installed in organizations ranging from 50 to 20,000+ employees, in a variety of business segments, including government offices and institutions, local authorities, hospitals and long-term care facilities, hotels, the manufacturing and automotive industry, retail, financial institutions, high-tech and electronics, and more.

With more than 25 years experience, Synerion is among the first companies worldwide to develop Time and Attendance management systems. Our solutions are deployed by leading companies in the USA, Canada, UK, Holland, Belgium, Romania, South Africa and Russia. Synerion employs over 180 professionals specializing in the development, implementation, training and marketing of workforce and human capital management solutions. Synerion operates in North America through its subsidiary Synerion Canada, located in Toronto and Montreal. In Europe and South Africa the company operates through a network of business partners. Company headquarters and its R&D center are based in Canada.

Modules are;

• Activity Based Costing

• TimeKeeper Analytics

• Job Scheduling

• Absence Planning

• Overtime Equalization

• Web-Enabled Solution

• Absence Request

• Benefit Accruals

• Time Banking

• TimeKeeper  

Activity Based Costing

Activity Based Costing is software designed to collect, analyze and monitor labor distribution and job allocation information. Activity Based Costing enables both supervisory and senior management levels to monitor labour information. This modual actively tracks both time and cost elements associated with each aspect of activity. All relevant database information is commonly shared by both systems. Time and Attendance pay-rules defined in TimeKeeper can be automatically applied to labor costs analysis.

Activity Based Costing also includes;

• Flexible Multi-Level Data Capture Configuration

• Flexible Multi-Level Rate Assignments

• Wage and Charge Separation

• Flexible Application of T&A Rules

• Integrated Attendance/Activities Full Screen Editing

• Automatic Wage Retention

• Automatic Default Job/Activity Allocations

• Flexible Data Import/Export Facilities

• Variance Reporting to Actual Attendance Total

TimeKeeper Analytics

TimeKeeper Analytics is a comprehensive business intelligence module that helps you improve workforce performance. It is an executive information system (EIS) that leverages untapped data in the TimeKeeper and TimeCosting suite to help managers make decisions that reduce costs, increase effectiveness, and improve employee satisfaction.

TimeKeeper Analytics allows organizations to:

• Analyze data from multiple systems; including time and attendance, activity based costing, and accruals to give managers previously unavailable analysis capability.

• Manage with key performance indicators at a glance, allowing managers to respond to lags with immediate corrective action.

• Monitor results over time. See what works, view trends, compare workforce effectiveness between locations, pinpoint problematic areas, and promote accountability throughout the organization.

Job Scheduler makes it easy to plan work for an employee, department or customized group. Using simply mastered tools, you can quickly build multiple schedules, rotate shifts and use templates to forecast overtime allocation. Scheduling headaches become history!

TimeScheduling flexible functionality also includes:

• Schedule jobs dynamically using the enhanced daily browser for Time and Attendance scheduling, on a daily basis or on a weekly basis. 

• If your employees have a scheduled job with a recurring pattern, simply pre-set it and let our system work for you.

• Enables validating the scheduled jobs vs. a pre-defined list of jobs per employee with an option of manual override.

• Pay to schedule capability

• Time Schedule Wall Report, ability to post the schedule 2 weeks, 4 weeks or 6 weeks in advanced.

Absence Planning

APM (Absence Planning Module) is a powerful planning tool that gives supervisors and department heads a complete picture of employee absences. It helps them to evaluate how personal entitlement to time off can be balanced against future operational needs. In terms of operational needs, the module supports defining "Coverage Groups": Any group of employees can be defined as Coverage Groups e.g. a department, team or even people (from separate departments) with a certain field of expertise. Individual employees can be associated with multiple Coverage Groups. Thus, intelligently decide whether to approve, decline or offer alternative dates.

Some benefits of using Absence Planning Module:

• Managers see the "entire picture" before they approve/decline a scheduled absence. No more "last minute surprises"! 

• Integration with Absence Tracking and Benefit Accruals allows real forecasting based on actual corporate policies and the employee's seniority (if applied).

• Integration with TimeKeeper ensures no unnecessary duplication of data.

• Easy to Use

• Straight-forward "Drag & Drop" schedule interface

• Coverage and negative balance alerts pop-up dynamically

• Includes areas of classifications, departments and groups of employees

• Hours offered, refused, no show hours, reason codes

• Supervisor daily/weekly edits

• Overtime Equalization sheets

• Daily calculation engine

Web-Enabled Solution

In either Internet or intranet configurations, iBrowse provides both employees and supervisors a location-independent tool for entering and reviewing attendance, absence and activity-based costing information. iBrowse, developed using state-of-the-art internet technology, is a true n-tier web-enabled application.

iBrowse also enables users to:

• Turn their desktop into a "punch clock" for both attendance and activity-based costing

• Can display in/out times or duration

• Calculate and display total attendance, total costing hours and attendance-costing variances

• Display both daily and pay-period attendance and costing summaries

• Filter/specify data format & employee groups to display for each supervisor (thereby significantly streamlining the review and authorization process)

• Require supervisor and/or employee approval for entered/modified data via electronic signatures.

Absence Request

This feature allows you to request absences, such as Vacation time, by means of our internet / intranet based module called iBrowse. Supervisors automatically get notified with an email that enables them to approve or decline the absences.

Benefits of using Absence Request functionality include:

• Reduce paperwork by requesting and approving all absence requests electronically

• Eliminates communication errors by ensuring accurate information being passed on to the right people

• Request and approve absences quickly and conveniently

• All information is given up front to supervisors before approving an absence with forecasted balances

• Employees get notification of request via email and iBrowse

• Send requests to multiple supervisors

• Automatic Default Job/Activity Allocations

• Use iBrowse and Absence Planning Module to further enhance functionality.

Benefit Accruals

Synerion's Benefit Accrual Module is an add-on to the TimeKeeper core system that provides an automated "tool" for managing the accrual and usage of employees benefit hours in accordance with your company's benefit policies.

Benefit Accruals Flexible Functionality also includes:

• Create and manage an unlimited number of benefit types (i.e. paid and unpaid vacation, sick time, etc).

• Accrue benefits on a Flat-Rate basis (commonly used for Sick or Personal time).

• Accrue benefits using Employee Profile-Based Information (e.g. Paid Vacation allowances that depend on Seniority).

• Accrue benefits using Daily Attendance-Based Information (i.e. dynamic allowances based on no. of hours worked)

• Allowance rules that can be either conditional or non-conditional.

• Automatic conversion of overtime hours to Benefit allowances.

• Sophisticated rules for handling Maximum Accrual Limits, Discard rules and Carry Forward rules.

• Automatic deduction of attendance deficiencies (i.e. missing hours) from Benefits with positive balance.

• User defined handling of Negative benefit balances (completely disabled or partially allowed)

• Track Benefit values in days, hours or both.

• Multiple tracking frequencies (i.e. weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly, monthly etc.).

Time Banking

TimeBank was developed to create a mechanism for managing, storing and carrying forward pay-period values "banked hours" from one pay-period to the next. TimeBank can be regarded as a "savings account", i.e. a stored amount of hours that can be added to and/or deducted from on a pay-period basis. Adding or subtracting to/from the "bank of hours" can be initiated on a pay-periodic basis (similar to a salary which is added to a bank account each pay-period) or as a one-time occurrence (similar to a cash withdrawal/deposit).

TimeBank functionality also includes:

• Support for setup and operation of several TimeBanks per employee

• Definition of several TimeBank Groups within a given TimeBank

• Can handle manual additions/subtractions to an employee's TimeBank

• Reporting capability included.

TimeKeeper

Time and Attendance's "core" system is called TimeKeeper. This is a full-featured and open-ended Time and Attendance application. It is used with a variety of data collection options such as hand readers, fingerprint, RFID cards, swipe cards or web based (ibrowse) and is easily configured to export data to any payroll or HR system. Based on a flexible rule-based architecture, TimeKeeper is easily customized to meet all payroll and financial tracking tasks.

Create the proper Workforce Solution that your company needs by using the "snap-on" modules:

This flexible design lets you choose only the functionality your company requires which in turn saves you money.

Identify irregularities in your employees by having a year view of attendance behaviours!

• Edit and view employee IN/OUT times, paid attendance and overtime in the customizable "daily screen"!

• "Results Driven" Architecture

• Efficient Daily & Pay-Period Editing

• Enhanced Pay-Rules Functionality

• Automatic Polling & Processing

• Flexible Employee Profile Configuration

• Visual Patern Tracking (VPT)

• Built-in Report Generator

• Full System Security & Audit Trail Monitoring

• Microsoft Office Integration

• Payroll Transaction Generator

• TK-SQL MS SQL Based Client/Server Version

• Microsoft Office Integration