Aer Lingus Case Studies

Employees: 2,500 ground employees

Client Goals: To reduce payroll costs, schedule a diverse staff on a 24-hour cycle, ensure compliance with legal time rules, and to generate detailed Mitrefinch time and attendance reports to increase efficiency.

We absolutely need to keep payroll costs as low as possible, and Time and Attendance Software helps us to achieve this. We would certainly recommend Advance Systems and Mitrefinch time and attendance software to other organisations. Advance Systems has proved that they are more than capable of delivering and supporting solutions to match the highest requirements and standards.

1. Challenge: Scheduling and Rostering

Each department at Aer Lingus has predefined rules, which must be met when scheduling staff.

Solution:
Mitrefinch Time & Attendance Software allows managers to easily schedule the required number of staff with the appropriate skill sets, while ensuring that planned schedules adhere to predefined rules.

Result:
Increased efficiency, as well as payroll costs that are significantly lower.

2. Challenge: Company and Legal Compliance

Aer Lingus employees work irregular hours through a 24-hour cycle.

Solution:
Mitrefinch Time & Attendance Software successfully monitors and ensures full organizational and legal compliance. Tools such as the future work planner make adhering to rules easier, and notification systems ensure that anomalies are reported. Automatic updates ensure you are up-to-date on the latest rules and regulations.

Result:
Reduction in unnecessary overtime costs, as well as the peace of mind of knowing that the organization is operating under full legal compliance.

3. Challenge: Payroll

Aer Lingus employees were spending valuable time dealing with a cumbersome manual time and attendance system.

Solution:
Advance Systems fully integrated Mitrefinch Time & Attendance Software with the Aer Lingus HR system, and has been used to fully automate and streamline the payroll process.

Result:
Significant reduction in administrative time spent on payroll, as well as a reduction in costly errors.

4. Challenge: Generation of Reports

The reporting capabilities at Aer Lingus were somewhat limited, impeding the ability of management to make the best workforce management decisions.

Solution:
Mitrefinch Time & Attendance Software generates a comprehensive range of reports in areas such as scheduling, compliance, attendance management, payroll, and planned vacations, among others.

Result:
Reporting capabilities were greatly enhanced, allowing Aer Lingus to not only improve daily efficiencies, but to make better long-term decisions associated with their workforce.

5. Challenge: Constant Changes

Mitrefinch time and attendance system must not only constantly keep pace with interior changes, it must keep up with changing industry rules and regulations.

Solution:
Mitrefinch Time & Attendance Software provides a level of flexibility needed by organizations such as Aer Lingus. The system can be easily individualized to amend existing rules and to incorporate new rules, and automatic updates ensure that nothing is missed. Never-ending support from Advance Systems Technical Support Desk, Software Team, and IT Department means the Advance Systems guidance and expertise is available whenever you need them.

Result:
A Mitrefinch time and attendance system that keeps pace with Aer Lingus highly dynamic, flexible atmosphere, both now and in the future.