Utilisation was guessed. Overtime was invisible. Leave was a WhatsApp message.
Helix Automotive Engineering, Nashik
Powertrain component design and tolerance analysis for Tier 2 suppliers
Utilisation was guessed. Overtime was invisible. Leave was a WhatsApp message.
Helix ran a lean team of 29. Engineers submitted timesheets at the end of the month, often filling in approximate hours from memory. The result: 30% of logged hours had no project code attached, making billing reconciliation a manual nightmare every month-end. Leave was approved over WhatsApp with no central record. When two senior engineers took leave simultaneously and a third was on a client visit, a critical deliverable slipped because nobody had visibility of the gap until the day it was due.
Time tracked daily. Leave visible in advance. Utilisation never a guess.
Helix implemented the Work module and made daily timesheet entry the norm — it took engineers 3 minutes at end of day. Unallocated hours dropped from 30% to under 4% within six weeks. The leave calendar gave the delivery head two weeks' advance visibility of team availability. The near-miss on the deliverable became a process improvement story: the calendar would have flagged the gap and allowed reassignment before it became a risk. Monthly billing reconciliation time dropped from two days to under two hours.
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