I have been involved into a very interesting mobility case in china. We used to talk more about Mobile BI, Mobile for retail, Mobile EAM, Mobile Service, but what we find in this customer is the requirement of Mobile Time Management or Mobile Timesheet Application.

This customer is one the major auto manufacturer in China, as we all know Automobile industry is booming these years in China. However consumers become to have more options as all the global players are surging in. Auto manufacturers do have the requirement of improve efficiency especially on the streamlines.

If you have been to some auto factories to see the assembly streamline, you will find a huge rooms with all the workers on different duties. Team leaders will manage their performance and fill in the timesheet at the exact time when the workers are on duty.

There are 600 to 700 team leaders in this factory, each leader is in charge of a team of 10 workers. As the streamline room is so big, team leaders have to walk around, back and forth from the working sitepoint to the fixed PC workstation terminal. This does not look easy.

So mobility shows its value by providing possiblity of filling out timesheet, working status, worker's performance (ie. parts assembled per hours) anywhere anytime with a mobile device on hand. The armed team leaders, more probably will carry a pad, search the shifting schedule of his team members which is managed by HR time management specialist in backend system (SAP HCM), check it on site, and then sychronize the data back to the system. Worker's overall performance will be generated on a monthly basis and linked to the contribution of the individuals.

The project is led by the HR team. They found mobility is a reliable way to ensuring the capture of actual and accurate performance data, while they used to be in trouble of getting it. They found the worker's overall performance assessment will be more specific and show what the worker's strengths and weakness. Hopefully, the mobility solution can contributes to the success of a HCM system and improve the overall enterprise human resource efficiency.