Payroll, PMC and MAPICS

To all -

Ahhh, the joys of a (relatively) new boss!!!

We're going over time and attendance, direct and indirect labor and getting
said information into the correct accounting "buckets," and I need to know
what some of the rest of you are doing in this regard. (PS Our fiscal year
starts July 1, so we want to make any changes from the existing system to a
better system to kick in then.)

We are collecting clock in/out and job on/off for 99% of our staff using
MDCC (PaperLess) and processing thru PMC. We do NOT have MAPICS' Payroll
module. Since we do not have Payroll, the TA transactions "go away" when we
complete a PMC Prepare, so we automagically capture the TA's into a
TRDATA-clone file prior to TRDATA being cleared during Prepare. Then we have
reports written against the TRDATA-clone as well as the SHOPHST file.

What do the rest of you do who are using PMC for labor tracking and payroll?
I'd like to hear both from those using the MAPICS Payroll module, and those
who use something else. Are you satisfied that you can track
time-and-attendance transactions sufficiently to meet the letter and spirit
of labor laws? And do you feel you get your labor transactions into the
correct accounting buckets? Or do you report some other way and enter a lot
of journal entries? Does your MO history accurately reflect labor hours
spent on the job with correct variences accounted for? and can you get paid
overtime and double time posted correctly without manual intervention? Or
does your accountant even care?

        Challenged to explain in Missouri  --  Joan

Joan McCready, IS Manager      phone:  636-479-4499
MetalTek International               fax:  636-479-3399
The Carondelet Division             www.metaltekint.com
8600 Commercial Blvd
Pevely, MO  63070