A Fortune 500 manufacturing leader specializing in tools, storage, digital solutions, and industrial equipment needed one centralized skills management system to retain and develop critical skills and build the workforce of the future.
With over 50,000 employees operating in more than 100 facilities across 60 countries, they faced a significant challenge: managing critical workforce skills across plants without centralized skill insights.
With Kahuna, they eliminated manual, disparate processes, digitized skills data, automated training tracking, and enhanced on-the-job training programs to enhance efficiency, minimize downtime, and retain critical knowledge on the plant floor. Download the full case study to learn more.
A leading manufacturer of tools, storage, and digital solutions needed one centralized
system to track, manage, and develop critical workforce skills. They lacked workforce
insights to determine training and staffing needs to meet operational goals and
requirements across more than 50 plants.
- Eliminate the manual processes of tracking skills and training requirements through Excel spreadsheets or disparate systems.
- Implement skills management software to identify qualified individuals, backfill
roles, train promptly, and mobilize resources between machines. - Identify skills gaps and target training and development opportunities for specific
machinery and operational processes. - Guide development conversations with validated skills data to boost employee
satisfaction and support both individual and organizational goals.
- Standardized and streamlined skills, training, and compliance data across each plant in one digitized platform.
Automated the tracking of safety training, expirations, and reminders to mitigate lapses in certifications and lower safety incidents. - Enabled robust on-the-job training programs to upskill and reskill technicians based on proficiency gaps.
- Minimized time to backfill resources for a job role, machine, or production line in the case of unplanned staffing shortages.
- Reduced turnover and retained critical workforce skills with more engaged technicians, managers, and supervisors.
With Kahuna, not only do we get this tactical decision-making ability, but now on an enterprise level, some really powerful data around skillsets and what is needed for production to actually drive decisions.
