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.

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.

What does an employee cost me per hour and does his hourly rate still match the job group? You can answer these questions based on the workable hours by entering the labor costs of all employees for an entire fiscal year. In this article you can read how to determine the costs of your employees.

Based on the allocated budgets for all employees and all operations, you fill in the Occupancy Plan, a matrix in which you indicate who is expected to do what for the coming year. You use the Coverage Plan to divide all costs, except labor costs, over the direct and indirect operations and to divide all indirect hours over the direct operations.

Using the standard dashboard 'Employee Hours Analysis', you can analyze the hours recorded by employees. This provides insight into two key metrics: productivity and hours efficiency.

In Mijn MKG, you can order the hardware you need, such as scanners and card readers, via our webshop. You can find this through the Products tile on the My Data tab.

In My MKG, you can manage your company's licenses yourself. You can find the license form via the Products tile on the My Data tab.

After the technical setup of the Shop Floor has been completed, MKG itself should be set up so that your employees can actually start clocking hours. With this second part in a series of articles about the Shop Floor setup, you can now take the next steps towards an operational Shop Floor.

How do you ensure that a user can register their own hours, but without being able to see the hours of other employees?

You can process payments to creditors in batches, for example, over the past month. In MKG, you create an internet banking batch by selecting payment lines in the Open creditors list. Additionally, you can also prepare employee salaries and other payments in a payment file that you can then import via your bank's portal. This article shows you how to create an internet banking batch.

In the 'Calendar Shift schedule' module, shift schedules are linked to the appropriate employees. It is necessary to link shift schedules to employees in order to work with time registration. In this article, you will learn how to fill in such a shift schedule.

From this version onwards, you can use notification management in MKG5. A notification is the consolidation of all possible information and actions surrounding a single signal. Notifications can be set up to register incidents around a process.