E-book

41% of Indian enterprises are leaking workforce costs due to payroll errors. Is your HCM system equipped to prevent it?

Manual Attendance Logs. Duplicate IDs. Unverified Overtime.

Plants and vendor sites that continue to operate on disconnected systems are at significant risk of silent, recurring financial leakage.

This guide enables enterprise leaders to identify operational inefficiencies in contract workforce management and provides a structured framework to address them with precision and control.

What the Guide Covers

• The True Cost of Operational Fragmentation: An analysis of how billing discrepancies, unverifiable attendance and compliance lapses contribute to unplanned financial loss, often discovered only during audits.
• Six Critical Gaps That Drain Workforce Budgets: A breakdown of the most common leak points, including headcount inflation, misaligned skill classifications, inactive workers remaining on payroll and data silos.
• Seven Proven Interventions Implemented by Industry Leaders: Actionable strategies that have helped India’s top manufacturers strengthen control, such as:
• Geo-fenced attendance validation
• Annexure-linked billing automation
• Aadhaar-based onboarding authentication
• Real-time alerts for compliance risk
• How Ascent HCM Enables Systemic Control:  A detailed view of how Ascent’s unified platform integrates workforce identity, attendance, billing and compliance data to eliminate manual gaps and enforce accountability at scale.