Increase Labor Accuracy with Propel Apps’ Time Confirmation in SAP Mobile Maintenance

Introduction

Accurate time confirmation is essential for modern asset maintenance,  especially for organizations leveraging SAP S/4HANA. Companies adopting automated time trackingachieve up to 25% fewer payroll errors and 15-20% faster work order completion, improvingasset reliability and delivering significant savings. Propel Apps’ mobile asset maintenance solution for SAP S/4HANA is designed to address these real-world challenges, delivering innovative, field-friendly features for today’s maintenance teams.

This blog sheds light on this topic, delving into the technician’s challenges and how Propel Apps’ time confirmation feature within the mobile asset maintenance solution ensures precise labor reporting and work order operations.

Industrial Story: The Technician's Challenge

Imagine Vincent, a field technician at a busy manufacturing site running SAP S/4HANA. His day is packed with varied maintenance jobs—some quick fixes, others lengthy overhauls. Traditionally, Vincent jots down his work hours on paper or tries to recall them for manual entry into SAP, leading to missed entries, errors, and overtime disputes.

Multiple operations per work order only ramp up the confusion, creating administrative bottlenecks for the maintenance planner who must validate each time slip. The lack of accurate, real-time confirmation means payroll, productivity insights, and compliance often hang by a thread, exposing the business to cost overruns and audit headaches.

Common Challenges Faced by the Technicians

From the above user story, you can easily infer the following challenges faced by the technicians that include:

• Forgotten or inaccurate time entries due to manual note-taking or post-job recall.

• Higher risk of payroll errors and overtime disputes.

• Increased administrative workload to validate and correct logs.

• Delays in closing work orders, since each operation requires tracking.

• Inadequate visibility into actual time spent on each maintenance operation.

• Difficulty meeting compliance and audit requirements due to incomplete records.

Core Capabilities of the Propel Apps' Time Confirmation Feature Within the Mobile Asset Maintenance Solution

Propel Apps has reframed this narrative with its “Time Confirmation” feature for mobile SAP asset maintenance. Some of its key capabilities include:

• Operation-Level Time Logging: Technicians record hours for each job step to ensure precise, traceable records.

• Manual Time Entry: Technicians can manually enter and confirm time spent on each task using a simple workflow.

• Automatic Time Confirmation: A built-in timer tracks work duration automatically, supporting hands-free time capture especially for longer operations.

• Multi-Operation Time Confirmation: All hours for multiple operations can be confirmed in a single step, speeding up shift-end routines and reducing manual workload.

Quantitative Benefits

Adopting Propel Apps’ Time Confirmation brings measurable advantages to SAP-driven organizations, which include:

• Accurate Labor Costing: Up to 25% reduction in payroll errors; improved invoicing and job costing.

• Faster Work Order Closeouts: 15-20% faster work order closeouts thanks to real-time time logging; supervisors gain actionable insights into wrench time versus wait time.

• Lower Admin Burden: Automatic confirmation minimizes manual entry—up to 40% less administrative overhead during payroll and compliance audits.

• Greater Accountability: Transparent time logs support audit requirements and foster greater accountability at all maintenance levels.

Future-proof your asset maintenance operations with Propel Apps’ mobile solution for SAP S/4HANA. Discover firsthand how accurate, efficient time confirmation can save costs and drive operational improvements. Contact Propel Apps for a demo, and see how our solution can streamline labor tracking in your SAP maintenance projects.

Final Thoughts

Streamlined time confirmation in SAP delivers measurable ROI: reduced risk, higher accountability, and lasting operational excellence. Propel Apps empowers maintenance teams with mobile-first innovation, connecting shop floor activities to back-office efficiency.