The purpose of the site, which will open in September of this year (2019), is to receive and sort parcels from the fulfilment centres, then send them on to the delivery stations. 

 

Kevin Marsh, general manager for Amazon sortation UK operations, said: "We are delighted to be creating 250 permanent new jobs over the next 18 months in St Helens as we continue to develop our last mile logistics network.

 

"This sortation centre will have an important role in supporting the fast and reliable delivery Amazon customers love and trust. We would like to thank everyone in St Helens and beyond for their support on establishing this new site."

 

Source: Insider Media North West

 

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An area which is often overlooked as companies expand and grow is how they measure their time and attendance. This is particularly important when they are recruiting new staff, since this puts more strain on existing processes.

 

The least effective form of time and attendance management is still practiced by hundreds of companies all over the country – the self-reporting paper timesheet.

 

Inexact, or worse, falsified recording of hours can lead to potential infringements of the Working Time Directive, amongst other issues like tax discrepancies due to incorrect payslips. 

 

The next stage of timesheet processing is that somebody needs to collect all of those individual timesheets and enter all that data number by number into a spreadsheet in order to send it to the payroll software. 

 

There are a number of workarounds to these problems. The best solution is to centralise and automate both those parts of the process. With our clocking stations and top-quality time and attendance software, we can do exactly this. 

 

Employees no longer have to spend time and energy filling in the forms, because all they need to do is just clock in or out using their smartcards or fingerprints. The process is over in less than a second, and the data is then automatically sent to the central database. 

 

Payroll staff no longer need to squint at bad handwriting and hope that this number is a 7, not a 1, because the collected data can be exported quickly and easily, in a format suitable for all the leading payroll programs.