HR Software for Manufacturing 

Transform your core HR processes with tools built for manufacturing's complex workforce needs. Manage employee records, policies, and procedures with automated workflows that ensure compliance with health and safety regulations. Handle diverse employment types from permanent production staff to seasonal workers, all within one unified system.

• Embedded AI seamlessly connects all your Access products, delivering smarter automation, deeper insights, and effortless compliance.
• Powerful People Analytics provide real-time workforce intelligence, helping you make faster, data-driven decisions.
• Empower employee and manager self-service with the PeopleXD Evo mobile app.

“The ability to centralise a number of siloed systems had a profound impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of our HR team” - Gareth McGrane, Head of HR at Grafton Merchanting ROI 

From advanced scheduling and time tracking to real-time analytics and compliance tools, our workforce management modules ensures you have complete visibility and control over your workforce. With built-in automation and AI-driven insights, you can optimise productivity, reduce costs, and enhance employee engagement.

Master the complexity of manufacturing schedules with intelligent rota planning that handles 24/7 operations, rotating shifts, shift swapping and seasonal demand fluctuations. Automated absence management minimises disruption to critical production processes whilst self-service holiday booking frees up admin time. Get real-time visibility and built in analytics to ensure optimal staffing levels across all operations so you can make sure the right people are in the right place, at the right time. 

• Onboarding
• Holiday Management
• Sickness and Absence Management
• Timesheets and Clock-In/Out
• Rostering and Shift Management
• Employee Self Service (ESS) - from holiday requests to shift swaps

Gain real-time insights into workforce productivity, labour costs, and operational efficiency. Identify trends in overtime, monitor absence patterns, and optimise workforce planning with predictive analytics that help you anticipate staffing needs for production cycles and seasonal demands. 

Easily view, monitor, report and act on the following data – and more:

• Current and projected headcount by location
• Current and projected staffing costs
• Trends – absence, attrition, seasonal demands etc
• Age and diversity information by department, role and location
• Time-based comparisons – monthly, YoY etc

Simplify your data further with secure embedded AI so you can get quick answers about your internal people data – without having to check your dashboards.

Understand diversity representation, analyse total people costs, and identify retention risks before they impact production, simply by asking the questions. From tracking employment types across your manufacturing sites to prioritising retention focus where it matters most, embedded AI transforms your workforce data into actionable intelligence that drives strategic decision-making.    

Ask questions like:

• What is the split of males/females in leadership roles?
• Show me my total people cost per department? (salary + benefits) 
• What is our current headcount per location?
• I want to understand the employment make-up of my organisation (full / part / contract)
• Help me understand our current DE&I breakdown
• Where do we have an issue with internal mobility?
• Who are we currently hiring/promoting?

Eliminate payroll complexity with automated processing designed for manufacturing's unique – and varied - pay structures. Handle shift differentials, overtime calculations, variable hours, and mixed employment types with complete accuracy. Integrated time tracking reduces manual data entry and ensures compliance with working time regulations.

• Automated Payroll Processing
• Pension Auto-Enrolment and HMRC Submissions
• RTI Reporting
• Notifications and Reminders
• Employee Self-Service incl. Online Payslips

Attract top talent in competitive manufacturing markets with streamlined recruitment processes. From production line operatives to specialist engineers, accelerate your time-to-hire with automated workflows, collaborative hiring tools, and branded candidate experiences.

• Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
• Applicant Screening
• Interview and Contract Management
• Branded Careers Website
• Posting Job Adverts to Job Boards

Develop and retain your skilled workforce with comprehensive performance management and career development tools. Create clear progression pathways for production workers, engineers, and technical specialists. Drive engagement in demanding industrial environments through structured feedback and recognition programmes.

• Appraisals/ One-to-ones and Objective Setting
• eLearning Courses and Learning Management
• 360 Continuous Feedback
• Skills Gap Analysis and Competency Management

Drive satisfaction, loyalty, and retention. From customisable benefits packages that can help offset the impact of rising NICs, to instant discounts, targeted wellbeing programmes, and communication tools for your dispersed teams, we help you invest in the people powering your production.

• Flexible Benefits with App
• Instant Discounts – from shopping to cinema and gym membership
• Salary Sacrifice Schemes
• Monetary and Non-Monetary Rewards
• Internal Communications
• Peer-to-Peer Recognition
• Centralised Data & Insights
• Seamless Integration 

Maintain rigorous safety standards with automated training management and compliance tracking. Automatically assign training, ensure continuous certification for mandatory health and safety requirements, track training completion with compliance tracking dashboards, and maintain comprehensive audit trails essential for regulatory compliance in manufacturing environments.

Our 1000+ CPD and RoSPA certified eLearning courses and flexible catalogues build a compliance-focused culture while enabling you to upskill your current manufacturing workforce - crucial for navigating manufacturing’s challenging skills and recruitment landscape.

• Food safety, allergies and hygiene
• Vehicles, plants and equipment – abrasive wheels, hand and arm vibration, lift truck safety, LOLER, Lockout/Tagout, PUWER, safe movement of vehicles
• Hazardous chemicals – COSSH, GHS, spill prevention and control
• Specialist environments – asbestos awareness, confined spaces, DSEAR, cleaning, home workers, hot and winter weather awareness, lab safety, legionella awareness
• General workplace safety – Driver safety, DSE, electrical safety, fire safety, first aid, moving and handling, PPE, ladder safety and more

With much of your workforce not desk-based and working in different locations, self-service functionality isn’t a nice-to-have, it’s an essential.

Empower your workforce with mobile access to schedules, payslips, and policy information. Factory floor workers and remote site teams can submit holiday requests, view rotas, swap shifts and access important policy information relevant to them anywhere, reducing administrative burden, improving employee satisfaction and unlocking greater productivity for managers and their teams.