We are having an issue where all employees indirect activities aren’t populating on the Employee Efficiency report. It appears that while they are forced to pick an indirect code and resource group, the department isn’t always selected under Time and Expense therefore it’s not showing up on the Efficiency Report because it doesn’t know what department to put it under. All of our resource groups have departments associated with them. Any idea why that’s not pulling properly into my time entries?
Hi Alex,
I could be wrong but I’ve always understood efficiency is the actual measured against a plan or estimate. By definition, I don’t think that’s true for indirect time as that time doesn’t exist in the MOM. Now, maybe you’re looking for a different report that’s more payroll related where you’re trying to account for all of the employee’s time but, in my mind, that’s not a measurement of efficiency.
Best,
Mark W.
Mark, you are correct the Indirect time is not calculated as part of someone’s efficiency. So that does not have an effect on the calculation of efficiency provided by the report. The problem is that the report displays the total direct and indirect labor associated with each department. Well when an employee starts an Indirect Activity it’s not properly picking a department so the report doesn’t know where to dump that time so it omits it. So someone might shows 12 hours of indirect activity in a given period when they really had 30 hours because the other 18 didn’t have a department associated with it. Obviously there are other ways to get this information but since it’s supposed to be there and we are utilizing the report it would be nice to figure out why it’s not always populating.
Alex
Very understandable! I smell a BAQ in your future…
Do you have a department set up on the Employee record?
Yes we do.
Alex Jones
Applications System Analyst
Bradshaw Medical Inc.
262-925-1374 ext. 154