Industry Solutions
Tessera Time & Attendance for Manufacturing
Track shifts, attendance, and overtime with payroll-ready approvals for manufacturing teams.
Key metrics
Overview
What Tessera Time & Attendance helps you achieve
Track shifts, attendance, overtime, and payroll-ready approvals for manufacturing teams across sites.
Biometric, kiosk, and mobile attendance capture for production floors and plant gates.
Automates time capture and approvals so attendance feeds directly into payroll with accuracy.
Shift scheduling with rotations, breaks, night shifts, weekend rules, and relief coverage.
Automates time capture and approvals so attendance feeds directly into payroll with accuracy.
Overtime, late arrival, early departure, and absence policies with approval audit trails.
Automates time capture and approvals so attendance feeds directly into payroll with accuracy.
Payroll-ready attendance exports, exception dashboards, and plant-level labor visibility.
Automates time capture and approvals so attendance feeds directly into payroll with accuracy.
Integrations
Manufacturing suite
Connected Tessera workflows for manufacturers
Manufacturing teams usually need ERP, HR, accounting, and attendance controls working from the same operational data. Explore the related manufacturing pages below.
Manufacturing ERP
Production planning, BOMs, work orders, inventory, quality, purchasing, and cost variance.
View workflowManufacturing HR & Payroll
Shift payroll, overtime, allowances, employee records, compliance, and plant headcount reporting.
View workflowManufacturing Accounting
Production costs, WIP visibility, supplier invoices, budgets, VAT, cashflow, and plant profitability.
View workflowChallenges
Common pain points we solve
Most manufacturing teams struggle with visibility, controls, and reporting. Tessera brings those workflows together.
Shift rotation complexity across production, warehouse, maintenance, and security teams leads to payroll errors and overtime disputes.
Tessera T&A eliminates this through automated attendance rules, overtime approvals, and audit trails.
Biometric attendance data from multiple gates, plants, and departments is not consolidated without a central system.
Tessera T&A eliminates this through automated attendance rules, overtime approvals, and audit trails.
Overtime abuse is difficult to detect without automated rules, supervisor approvals, and production-demand context.
Tessera T&A eliminates this through automated attendance rules, overtime approvals, and audit trails.
Manual payroll preparation from attendance records is slow, dispute-prone, and hard to audit.
Tessera T&A eliminates this through automated attendance rules, overtime approvals, and audit trails.
Exception management for late arrivals, missed punches, early departures, and short shifts is tracked manually per supervisor.
Tessera T&A eliminates this through automated attendance rules, overtime approvals, and audit trails.
Workflows
Key workflows for Manufacturing
These are the most common workflows manufacturing organizations implement first for fast ROI.
Multi-plant shift scheduling
Runs on consistent rules with payroll-ready exports and exception management built in.
Biometric data consolidation
Runs on consistent rules with payroll-ready exports and exception management built in.
Overtime approvals
Runs on consistent rules with payroll-ready exports and exception management built in.
Leave management
Runs on consistent rules with payroll-ready exports and exception management built in.
Exception handling
Runs on consistent rules with payroll-ready exports and exception management built in.
Payroll-ready exports
Runs on consistent rules with payroll-ready exports and exception management built in.
Supervisor approvals
Runs on consistent rules with payroll-ready exports and exception management built in.
Labor cost reporting
Runs on consistent rules with payroll-ready exports and exception management built in.
Common use cases
Capabilities
What you get with Tessera Time & Attendance
A practical feature set designed for manufacturing teams, with controls and reporting built in.
Biometric + mobile attendance
Finger/face device workflows plus mobile attendance options where teams are distributed.
Shift scheduling
Define shift masters, breaks, rotation rules, and alerts for coverage and compliance.
Overtime rules + approvals
Policy-based overtime calculation with employee-level configuration and approvals.
Leave management
Paid/unpaid leave, accrual, carry-forward, half-day support, and payroll-ready exports.
Attendance processing + corrections
Bulk processing of raw logs with authorized time corrections and discrepancy resolution.
Outstation/official visits
Track official visits and exceptions so attendance reflects real work patterns.
Report builder + schedulers
Custom report layouts, scheduled report emails, and dashboards for HR teams.
Payroll/ERP integrations
Integrate to payroll and ERPs via APIs/files so time data flows end-to-end.
Reporting
Dashboards and insights
Get visibility that helps teams act faster: drill-down reporting, analysis views, and exportable outputs.
Common dashboards & reports
Built for teams
Secure reporting and controlled exports
Share the right view with the right people using role-based access. Export and schedule reports for finance, operations, and leadership.
Modules
Recommended Tessera modules
Start with time & attendance, then connect HR and payroll workflows for payroll-ready reporting.
Tessera Time & Attendance
Shifts, attendance, overtime approvals, and payroll-ready reporting.
Learn moreAccounting & Finance
Reporting, controls, and financial visibility across teams.
Learn moreHR & Payroll
People operations, payroll workflows, and compliance support.
Learn morePoint Of Sale
Sales, stock updates, and branch performance visibility.
Learn moreStories
What success looks like
Outcomes manufacturing teams expect after implementing Tessera Time & Attendance workflows, approvals, and reporting.
Overtime costs under control
Automated rules and approval workflows surfaced unauthorized overtime before payroll ran, giving HR clear visibility into cost exceptions.
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Payroll prep that does not take days
Replacing manual timesheets with structured attendance processing cut payroll preparation time and reduced disputes significantly.
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Shift coverage teams can rely on
Centralized scheduling with exception alerts means gaps are caught and filled before they affect operations or compliance.
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Questions we hear from Manufacturing teams
If you want, we can walk through your exact workflows in a short demo.
Yes. Attendance data from multiple biometric devices, gates, departments, and sites can be centralized for processing.
Automated overtime rules with approval workflows enforce policies, flag violations, and help supervisors approve only production-justified overtime.
Yes. Processed attendance data with corrections, approvals, overtime, absences, and exceptions can be exported for payroll systems.
Yes. Missed punches, late arrivals, early departures, and short shifts can be routed to supervisors before payroll is finalized.
Get started
Get a manufacturing demo
We will map your workflows, recommend a rollout plan, and show the dashboards your team will use day-to-day.
In the demo
- Shift scheduling and attendance workflows
- Overtime approvals and payroll-ready reporting
- Implementation timeline + support plan
- Module recommendations for your team
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