Supervise Employee Activities with Job Tracking Software

Create Job Tracking Dashboard

To be effective in supervising employee jobs and activities, it is important to have powerful tools that show critical information regarding work in progress. For example, dashboards allow you to see at a glance exactly where your workers stand on each activity, project or task. By creating a job tracking dashboard you get an executive information system that offers you a set of customizable windows and data views. It enables you to focus on each aspect of work. In particular, you can:

• Track assignments each employee currently focuses on
• Measure job performance
• Track time spent on one or another activity
• Visualize work in progress by means of charts and diagrams

CentriQS Dashboard as Job Tracking Software

CentriQS job tracking software lets you create and customize dashboards for monitoring entities available in your database. For example, you can create a dashboard to track employee tasks, time, projects, and performance. The layout of your dashboard can be customized and changed according to your needs.

Keep Track of Job Schedules

Schedules make it easier for managers and their subordinates to view current and future jobs that must be done. They provide timetables with details on how activities and milestones are sequenced and phased. By tracking job schedules you gain insight into how projects are broken down by periods, which tasks are overdue, which deadlines should be met today, this week or next month, what employees are responsible for scheduled events, etc. Job tracking software gives you all necessary tools to monitor and supervise employee calendars and work schedules.

CentriQS Scheduler

Analyze and Report on Job Costs

Analysis and reporting are the major activities in the job tracking process to estimate and account any changes occurred in direct and indirect expenses. These activities involve you in comparing production against customer orders to reveal any surplus or shortage in material, labor, time, and other resources required in manufacturing and service. By analyzing job cost sheets, estimates and audit reports you get a detailed work breakdown summary to view overall profitability, calculate obtained revenues, identify missed opportunities, and report on places where the budget has been exceeded.

CentriQS Pivot Tables

Monitor Projects with Ease

As a project manager, you need to understand the importance of organized supervision and monitoring of each individual project and its components. Once your project begins, real-time progress needs to be tracked and monitored against the baselines to ensure the objectives are met on schedule, within budget and to client specification. Each project component (such as task, schedule, cost, etc.) should be carefully checked and analyzed in progress in order for the project manager to make sure there's no performance gap and to understand what corrective actions could be taken otherwise.

The following tools represent best practices of project monitoring:

• Reports. A report represents summary information on project activities and their state to date. For example, a job status report summarizes a situation with project jobs, their completion level and also performance troubles over the last week.
• Meeting. A project meeting involves everyone (who participates in the project) in communicating with other participants to discuss progress issues, make proposals, and review improvement opportunities. For example, a status review meeting intends to exchange information on current progress and generate recommendations for improving project performance.
• Time logs and schedule. A time log provides a record on working time spent by an individual on doing a project task or job. Time logs are used by the project manager to monitor time performance per job per team member and to compare the data against the project schedule.
• Cost sheets. Project monitoring involves tracking of job cost sheets and financial reports to understand whether the project consumes the funds as much as expected by the project budget. The manager can use expense reports to compare actual costs and against planned ones to reveal any gaps in job budgeting and plan for further corrective actions.

Project Monitoring in CentriQS

CentriQS lets you follow best practices of project monitoring to make your projects perform better. Each project created in CentriQS database is composed of multiple tabs and views that make it easier for you to monitor the project's components. In particular, the following options are available for better project monitoring:

1. Tasks and Assignments

The Tasks tab of your project represents all tasks and assignments related to the project. You can monitor project tasks by State, Assigned To, Due Date, Priority, % Complete, Cost, etc. You can filter and sort tasks, create printed reports, relate tasks to other project components.

2. Team Members

3. Documents and Files

4. Time Logs

The Time Logs view in CentriQS enables you to monitor the time actually spent on your project's tasks. This view records working hours that team members have consumed to do their jobs. Each record provides the details on the task, start and finish time, duration, user, rate, and other parameters that you can define and customize according to your needs.