Indirect Labour Support Cost

• Planning; Forecasting needs- Calculating portion equivalencies to finished product needs; Calculating raw material needs based upon projected finished product needs; Projecting yields; inventorying; calculating needs based upon on-hand raw material quantities; forecasting direct and indirect labour requirements, scheduling.

• Ordering raw material; Call to vendor; inspecting, receiving, quality checking, storing, rotating, and juggling.
  

• Work station preparation; finding cutting utensils, boards, processing apparel, etc., employee hygienic activities, locating raw materials, piecemeal placement of raw materials to work site, locating finished product storage containers, sanitizing storage containers; removing raw material from carton, crate, bag, disposal of outer packaging material, location and placement of disposal containers, trash liners; sharpening, retooling.

• Employee support; Screening, hiring, training, re-training, administration.

• Interim cleaning; additional location and raw material placement, disposal of trimmings, removal of disposal containers, placement of new disposal containers.

• Washing, chilling, intermittent containerization, removal and storage of finished product, separating work stations for different processing functions.

• Supervision

Post-Processing Indirect Labour

• Waste removal; disposal; associated sanitizing activities.

• Final clean-up; sanitizing cutting board and utensils, mopping, apparel cleaning, employee hygiene.
  

• Finished product handling; placement, weighing, inventorying.

• Finished product calculation to forecasted needs

• Reporting