Quarry Chooses Focus Time and Attendance

Morris & Perry Ltd is part of the S. Morris Ltd group of companies and is a family-owned independent manufacturer of construction materials. The company is located in Somerset and has been supplying high quality materials for over eighty years.

The Morris & Perry quarry in Gurney Slade was acquired in the sixties and was using a manual tally roll clock which had been in operation for many years.

When the manual clock started to go wrong, it was decided to take a big step forward and source an electronic time and attendance system. It was decided to have a system that would allow the employees to have some control over their calculated hours as they had had before with the manual system.

The Focus Time and Attendance system specified by Access-to-Time met this requirement and extra functionality was added to the system specifically for Morris & Perry to provide a solution to meet their needs.

Although not over-complicated, the calculation of employees' time, which had always been done manually, required some thinking as some employees' time was calculated in a non-standard manner. The flexible scripting available within the Focus system enabled these non-standard calculations to be carried out with ease.

Morris & Perry chose to use the HandScan terminal so that their employees did not need to carry any other form of token, fob or badge to enable them to clock in and out. In the environment of the quarry there were concerns that the HandScan terminal might struggle. It hasn't at all. Brian Perry, the Managing Director, said:

"I didn't believe it would work in this environment. It is a testament to the strength of the design that it is working so well."

The ease with which the system can be used has meant that time has been saved all round and the calculation of payroll and the managing of holidays and other absences is simple. Tracey Simpson, the Accounts Manager, said:

"I returned from holiday recently and it was lovely not to have all the reams of paper to go through as I would have had to before. I just clicked and there was all the information I needed."

If you would like to benefit from a modern, efficient and money-saving system contact A2T now on 01761 410015.

Richard Tovey Transport Services choose Falcon Access Control

Leading logistics provider Richard Tovey Transport Services Ltd, who provide both standard and specialised logistics solutions, needed a simple-to-use and cost effective Access Control system to provide protection for their new key store and main office door.

They wanted to be able to approach the implementation of a system in a flexible manner including the possibility of installing some of the system themselves to enable them to meet their budgetary requirements.

Access-to-Time Ltd was selected as the preferred supplier of the Falcon Access Control system. Their flexibility combined with the functionality of this solution provided the service required by Richard Tovey Transport Services Ltd.

The flexibility meant that, for this implementation, A2T only installed the software, provided user training and made off the final connections between the hardware involved with all the cabling and installation of the hardware being carried out by Richard Tovey Transport Services Ltd.

A good compromise that enabled the best solution to be provided and meet the budget!

Operations Manager Simon Stroud said that the manner in which the installation was handled and the support provided both before, during and after the installation was very good and that he would not hesitate to recommend the services of Access-to-Time Ltd to any company who is looking for this kind of system.

Richard Tovey Transport Services Ltd can be contacted on 01179 825259 or visit their website.

Access-to-Time Ltd can be contacted on 01761 410015 or find out more by visiting the web site.