HR & payroll software for manufacturing
MHR's manufacturing HR and payroll solutions help teams build efficient workforces and automate compliance. This allows real-time insight on your workforce, at every level.
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Who we support
Food and beverage
Managing seasonal demand, shift-based operations or multi-site operations can be challenging. Our software gives you the visibility and flexibility to attract, retain, and develop the people who keep your business moving.
Industrial
Our solutions integrate HR, workforce management, payroll, and employee experience onto one platform. This benefits you and your employees, as information can easily be relayed from the shop floor to corporate teams and back again.
Agriculture
Manage your complex agricultural operations with confidence. Our solutions unify HR, payroll, and workforce management. This helps you attract talent, optimise labour, and improve workforce performance.
Life sciences
The life sciences sector is expanding rapidly, bringing increased competition for specialist talent alongside complex regulatory demands. Our software solutions help you attract and retain critical skills and maintain compliance.
Automotive
Electrification, automation and supply chain reshoring are transforming the automotive sector at pace. Our HR and payroll software helps you navigate this change by attracting and retaining critical talent, strengthening workforce planning and improving performance.
Aerospace and defence
With technological innovation, growing skills shortages and increasingly complex regulatory requirements the aerospace and defence sector is evolving rapidly. Our HR and payroll software helps you retain specialist talent, manage a complex workforce and navigate strict compliance.
114 manufacturers supported
80,000 employees served
40+ years in business
Everything you need in one platform
Simplified HR processes
Take control of your core HR operations with software designed for manufacturing. Centralise employee data, automate HR workflows, and maintain compliance with health and safety requirements, while supporting a diverse workforce.
Accurate, on-time payroll
A cloud-based system with a real-time payroll engine, eliminates the risk of errors in an industry with complex pay structures. Payroll information is also easily accessible for staff to view.
Efficient compliance
Sustain high safety and compliance standards with efficient training management. Assign mandatory learning, track certifications, and monitor completion through the dashboards. This helps maintain detailed audit trails for regulatory compliance.
Seamless workforce management
Gain complete visibility of your workforce with integrated scheduling, time and attendance, analytics, and compliance tools. Automate routine tasks, optimise labour costs and gain insights that will help you make improvements across your business.
Maximise employee experience
Give employees the tools they need to succeed with intelligent automation and a self-service app. Reducing administrative effort supports better decision-making and encourages an engaged and connected workforce.
Turn workforce data into actionable insights
Make smarter workforce decisions with real-time analytics. Track productivity, analyse labour costs, identify attendance trends, and use analytics to optimise workforce planning. These reports gather insight for managing seasonal peaks and changing production demands.
Manufacturing FAQs
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Both People First and iTrent have a lot to offer any manufacturing business. From reliable analytics, strong workforce management, development opportunities and HR self-service, MHR ensures every employee has a great experience.
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Skilled labour shortages: Ageing workforces and labour shortages drives the need for additional workers across the sector.
Employee engagement: With turnover and labour cost reaching new heights, positive employee experiences are essential.
Compliance complexity: Manufacturing organisations often have large, complex workforce structures, making employment rights compliance complicated.
Explore our latest guide on HR challenges in manufacturing.
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For HR directors and managers in manufacturing, there is an important challenge. How can you deliver a consistent employee experience without increasing the administrative burden? The right employee engagement software for manufacturing teams, connects HR, managers, and the shopfloor.
Read our guide on improving employee engagement in manufacturing.
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Effective HR practices in manufacturing organisations connects people strategy directly to operational performance. As a HR software and solutions provider for leading manufacturers, we have gathered a list of HR best practices for manufacturers to consider.
Discover HR best practices for manufacturers in 2026.
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Manufacturers should look for HR software solutions that come with workforce management features. This will allow you to manage many roles and varying shift patterns, ensuring working patterns align.