Group Amana

How Group Amana Ended Manual Job Tracking and Overtime Leakages Across 150+ Construction Sites

Key Challenges How Truein Helped Business Impact

150+

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7000+

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Construction

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UAE

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Group Amana is a leading design-build construction company across the Middle East. Founded in 1993 in Abu Dhabi, the company has constructed over 1,500 buildings across the GCC region. Group Amana specializes in fast-track, turnkey construction across multiple sectors including transport & logistics, food security, manufacturing, healthcare, energy, and commercial projects.

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Muhammad Bashir

Digital Transformation Manager, Amana

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Key Challenges

Group Amana needed a comprehensive time and attendance solution to replace their in-house RFID-based attendance system. With 7,000+ workers across 150+ construction sites spanning multiple countries, they required a system that could track time against specific jobs and activities, manage complex overtime workflows, and integrate seamlessly with their existing HRMS and CMIS.

No Job and Activity-Level Tracking: RFID punches worked only as entry logs. There was no mechanism to track hours against specific jobs and activities.
Complex Overtime Requirements: No systematic way to classify and track overtime across Day, Night, Off-day, and Holiday categories, with no controls for monthly caps or budget-based approval workflows.
Variable Break Time for Summer: Break durations depended on working conditions. Workers in shaded areas required 45-minute breaks while those in non-shaded areas needed 3-hour breaks during summer. Staff frequently shifted between these categories.
Timesheet Approval Workflow: Foremen needed the ability to create timesheets, map activities to staff, and track time spent on each activity with defined approval steps.
Multiple System Integration: Staff master, leaves, Jobs, activities, timesheet were scattered across Oracle and CMIS. Manual reconciliation created errors and delays.
Poor Network connectivity: Remote construction sites with poor or no network connectivity needed a reliable solution that could work offline.

How Truein Helped

Workforce and Activity Planner: Comprehensive shift scheduling combined with activity planning enabled foremen to create timesheets, map jobs and activities to staff, and track time spent across multiple tasks.
Job and Activity Capture at Clock-In/Out: Workers selected their assigned jobs and activities during clock-in/out, enabling accurate daily mapping of hours to specific tasks
Advanced Overtime Management: Implemented multi-level overtime approval workflows with budget tracking, monthly caps, and automatic classification into Day OT, Night OT, Off-day OT, and Holiday OT.
Dynamic Break Configuration: Configured flexible break policies - 45 minutes for shaded areas and 3 hours for non-shaded areas during summer, with easy weekly reassignment.
End-to-End Integrations: Deployed end-to-end API integrations synchronizing staff master, leave balances, jobs, activities, and timesheets between Truein, Oracle, and CMIS.
Face Recognition with Offline Capability: Truein’s offline mode allowed workers to clock in and out reliably even at remote construction sites with weak or no connectivity.
Geofencing and Face Spoofing: GPS geofencing with face recognition and liveness detection ensured workers could only clock in when physically present at assigned sites.
Custom Roles and Access Controls: Role-based permissions were set up for HR, project managers, foremen, timekeepers, and administrators, ensuring clear separation of responsibilities across teams.
SSO Integration: Implemented Single Sign-On with Microsoft Active Directory for seamless authentication and access management.
Dedicated UAE Infrastructure: A dedicated UAE-based data center ensured compliance with regional data sovereignty and governance requirements.

Business Impact

Accurate Job and Activity Tracking: More than 14,000 jobs were mapped for 7,000 workers, giving Amana clear visibility into how time was spent across projects.
Better Control of Overtime: Monthly OT caps and approval workflows reduced unauthorized overtime and helped project teams stay within budget.
Enhanced Operational Efficiency: Automated timesheet creation, activity mapping, and approval processes significantly reduced administrative burden on foremen and project managers.
Reliable Attendance at Remote Sites: Offline face recognition enabled consistent attendance tracking at construction sites with poor or no network connectivity.
Centralized View Across 150+ Sites: Managers could see attendance, job hours, and overtime use from a single dashboard, improving daily planning and reporting.
Lower HR Workload: End-to-end integrations with Oracle HRMS and CMIS eliminated manual data entry and reduced errors across all systems.
Custom Reports and Analytics: Payroll-ready reports and custom analytics provided visibility into attendance patterns, overtime utilization, and workforce productivity across all sites.
Custom Break Rules Automation: Break durations for shade and non-shade workers were applied automatically, reducing manual checks for supervisors.

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