"For operation '%1', an order must always be entered." Why do you get this message and what can you do to resolve it?

The standard report 'Vacation Card' tracks the spent and planned vacation and ATV balances per month. The information can be used by the person approving leave requests or by the employee themselves for requesting leave.

The standard report 'Employee Overview' displays the recorded hours and balances per employee and per period, divided into regular hours, overtime hours, and absence hours. This information can be used for payroll administration or by an employee to track their hours.

The standard report 'Hours per Employee/Operation Overview' displays the hours of an employee/operation in the current fiscal year. For an employee, the hours are also broken down by standard hours, overtime, and hour type.

The standard report 'Hours per Employee per Hour Type' displays two graphs showing the distribution of worked hours per hour type per employee in the selected fiscal year. The top graph shows the number of hours per hour type, and the bottom graph shows the percentage distribution.

If time bookings have been made (manually or digitally), these hours must be checked and processed in MKG for proper handling. This article explains the best way to do this and what information is available in MKG after processing.

In the 'Time Registration' module, you will find the 'Create Hours' button. This allows you to copy multiple time entries for multiple employees over a larger period. In this article, you will learn about the options available for creating hours and how to properly configure the fields.

MKG offers various ways to register hours. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages, and there may be (technical) requirements. Therefore, it is crucial to determine which option best suits your situation. This article explains all the important factors surrounding time registration and provides a decision tree to help you make the right choice.

Naturally, you want to have the leave hours of employees well organized. In MKG, it is possible to create or modify the leave balance, or budget hours, for individual employees, specific job groups, or all employees. This guide explains how to do this easily.

What can you do if an employee is not shown in the action list 'Preliminary hours' because they have not clocked any hours?

In the Public Holidays table you enter all public holidays per calendar year. A description and a date can be entered. This article shows how to organize the public holidays and what you should pay attention to when working on a public holiday.

The standard dashboard 'PC-AC Employee Hours' provides insight into the PC-AC ratio per employee based on the AC hours. The lower the AC relative to the PC, the better the efficiency.

Productivity is a measure indicating how much output can be produced with a certain input. Output usually refers to the total production or added value of a company, a sector, or the entire economy. The input can be divided into labor, capital, and intermediate consumption, which includes the use of energy, materials, and services. There are different types of productivity, such as labor productivity, capital productivity, and multifactor productivity. Labor productivity measures the amount of output per unit of labor.

BCO helps you to increase your insight into the financial situation of your company and puts you in a better position to determine your cost price. Do you have knowledge of cost prices and do you know the BCO modules? In this article you will find a step-by-step plan to easily set up BCO.

Once BCO has been set up, you can start monitoring the budgets. The various BCO Dashboards serve this purpose. Budget control based on these dashboards is central to this article. In addition, a number of scenarios arising from the design of BCO are discussed.

Using the Shop Floor functionality, you can let your employees clock hours on all your direct and indirect operations. Essential for a reliable subsequent calculation. In the webinar 'Why Use Shop Floor in Production' we will introduce you to the MKG Shop Floor. You will not only see how to set up in MKG and what you should pay attention to, but also how the smart client works, or the interface on the work floor. This webinar serves as an introduction and shows you the benefits of working with the Shop Floor.

The standard dashboard 'BCO Man-hours Monitoring' can be used to monitor the extent to which the set budgets correspond to the actual hours worked by your employees. See how productivity and hours efficiency have developed throughout the year and how they relate to what you have budgeted.

Production locations allow production order lines and processed material to be traced during the production process. A production employee always knows where the semi-finished products and/or processed material have been placed after the previous processing.

BCO stands for Budgeting, Controlling, Optimizing. BCO helps you increase your insight into your company's financial situation and enables you to better determine your cost price. By budgeting your hours and costs now, you will fully cover your business expenses for the coming year with direct and indirect hours, and you will maintain the alignment between order result and business result.