Food & Drink Manufacturing | Workforce Management

Workforce management for food & drink manufacturing

In the food and drink industry, accurate scheduling of your workforce and agency staff is key to success. Crown’s workforce management system helps you adjust to unexpected demand and reduce overspending on workforce costs.

Respond instantly to variable demand to capitalise on every opportunity

The demand for food and drink can change overnight (even with the weather), meaning manufacturers must always be ready. Crown can respond to fluctuating labour requirements helping to get staff where they need to be.

Deploy staff effectively and efficiently

Organise your pool of staff to fit the task at hand. Crown integrates with your demand forecasting functionality to reallocate resources smarter and quicker based on skills and availability.

Manage employee efficiency in granular detail

Manage employee activity in granular detail

Crown’s activity management lets you manage workers’ time and attendance by individual tasks - helping you get more control over your budgets.

Power decisions with data-driven insights

Our workforce management system’s analytics suite gives powerful insights at both corporate and managerial levels through our smart dashboards.

Driving down labour costs for a multinational ice cream manufacturer

Unilever UK Ice Cream is one of the biggest names in frozen food. Learn how we migrated the company to a time-based activity management solution which cut admin costs and reduced absences.

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Enable intelligent workforce management

Our workforce management system’s core features give businesses everything they need to forge smarter, leaner workforces while reducing reliance on agency and temporary staffing costs. Here are some of the key features our food and beverage customers rely on every day.

Rostering & resource scheduling

Real-time attendance data helps manage unplanned absences and gaps in the schedule at short notice.

Secure mobile app

Enable staff to work with true flexibility. The Crown mobile app allows your people to plan and manage their work lives whether at home or on site.

Advanced analytics

Turn a wealth of information into actionable insights using the power of Business Intelligence (BI).

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Trusted by industry leaders in food and beverage manufacturing

A Crown Computing consultant helped us to manage the whole of the project, implementing what we’d designed on paper and showing us how to configure the rules so the system accurately reflected our requirements,”

HR Manager | Unilever

It used to take two days to run two payroll systems, plus an hour per day to do daily administration. This has been reduced to a day’s administration on the system.”

Payroll Manager | O-I UK

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