Daily activity entry
Tagged at the gate or via mobile app. Anchored to Gate in/out, never self-reported alone.
Module 06 of 06 · Zentry Worksheet™
Project and time intelligence.
Gate-anchored hours. Real-time P&L.
The sixth module, the one that turns gate events into rupee terms. Every worker's daily activity tagged to a project, work order, location, work-type, billable category. Anchored to Gate in/out events, not self-reported. CFOs see project P&L. Delivery Heads see burn vs budget. PMOs see rework drag on margin.
WORKSHEET™ · CFO VIEWLive
PROJECT P&L · MAY 2026
+18.4%
vs budget
14 · 11 green · 2 amber · 1 red
87% · 4 bench
✓ 100% · 1,184 / 1,184
3.2% · trending down
8 workers near CLRA limit
DRILL TO PROJECT
Live · gate-anchored · audit-defensible
ReplacesExcel timesheets, disconnected project trackers
BuyersCFO, COO, Delivery / PMO Head
Compliance hooksCLRA overtime, SEBI BRSR workforce, shift records
Available onCloud, Hybrid Edge, On-Premise
What it does
Project and time intelligence.
Most plant CFOs work blind on project profitability until month-end close. The data lives in three places: Excel timesheets that workers fill in retrospectively (and lie about), the project tracker the PMO maintains in another tool, and the gate attendance the HR team owns. By the time these reconcile, the project is over and the loss is locked in. The CFO knows the margin band, but not which project, which team, which week.
Zentry Worksheet collapses that loop. Every worker's daily activity is tagged at the gate, anchored to Gate in/out events, mapped to a project, work order, location, billable category. The CFO sees live project P&L. The PMO sees burn vs budget every morning, not every month-end. The Delivery Head sees rework as it happens, not as a quarterly surprise. And because the time evidence is gate-anchored, not self-reported, it survives the labour officer and the customer auditor at the same time.
What Worksheet shows the CFO every morning:
- Per-project P&L: budgeted hours, actual hours, billable rate, gross margin.
- Per-team utilisation: bench rate, overtime exposure, underutilisation flags.
- Per-PO burn: contractor agency burn rate vs PO ceiling.
- Per-zone activity: where is the workforce concentrated this week.
- Per-shift overtime: statutory limit breaches flagged before they become labour issues.
From month-end surprise to morning visibility.
THE PROJECT P&L CHAIN
How a gate scan becomes plant CFO project margin.
1
PROJECT SET
PMO defines project in Worksheet
2
TAG
Worker → project mapping at the gate
3
CAPTURE
Gate-anchored hours, not guessed
4
CATEGORISE
Billable vs non-billable computed
5
PROJECT P&L
Per-project margin live
6
CFO DASH
Group consolidation, no Excel
Features
Built for the plant.
Every capability is engineered for the audit pressure and the operational chaos of an Indian industrial plant.
Project / sub-project hierarchy
Configurable per plant. Custom dimensions for cost centre, work order, PO.
Client vs internal
Billable categorisation. Per-project, per-worker, per-activity. Auditable trail.
Location, work-type, meeting, travel tags
Where the time went, in dimensions the CFO actually uses.
Rework flag
First-time delivery versus rework. Margin recovery starts with rework visibility.
Man-hour billing rate library
Per role, per grade, per geography. Configurable. Versioned.
Real-time project burn
Live burn vs budget. Per-project, per-week, per-PM. No month-end surprises.
Project P&L with margin band
Green, amber, red. PM-level, BU-level, CEO-level roll-up.
Utilisation and bench flags
Per-worker, per-team. Underutilisation, overtime exposure, statutory breach alerts.
Gate-anchored evidence
Every time entry backed by a Gate event. CLRA-defensible, customer-audit-defensible.
Compliance hooks
Statutes this module produces evidence for.
CLRA overtime records
Gate-anchored shift records that satisfy CLRA overtime documentation requirements.
SEBI BRSR workforce disclosure
Workforce hours, utilisation, and grade-wise data for the BRSR Principle 3 disclosure.
Statutory shift records
Per-worker, per-shift, per-day audit-grade evidence aligned with the OSH Code 2020.
Who buys Worksheet™
The heads behind the buying decision.
CFO / Finance ControllerPlant or Group
Pain: Project P&L visible only at month-end. By then, the margin is locked in.
Worksheet answer: Live project P&L. Per-PM, per-BU, per-PO. Margin recovery starts on day 1, not day 31.
COO / Plant HeadOperations
Pain: Rework eating margin. No clean way to see it in real time.
Worksheet answer: Rework flag. Per-project, per-team. The conversation becomes 'why are we reworking this' instead of 'why is the margin off'.
Delivery / PMO HeadThroughput and budget
Pain: Project burn vs budget reported weekly, lagging reality by 7 days.
Worksheet answer: Live burn. Live margin band. PM dashboard shows the gap before the gap becomes the loss.
Deployment
Worksheet™ runs on all three tiers.
Same workflows, same evidence chain. Choose the data-residency posture your plant needs.
Cloud
Fastest deploy. India-resident, multi-AZ. Multi-plant console.
- Runs in the cloud, devices connect via plant network
- Central console for multi-plant analytics
- Automatic updates and patching
Best for
Multi-plant operators, auto Tier-1, IT-mature plants
Most chosen
Hybrid Edge
Data at the plant. Internet-connected control plane.
- Data stays at the plant, never leaves
- Remote support and updates from VB Group
- Resilient to internet drops
Best for
Pharma GMP, BFSI captive plants, IATF Tier-1 with data-residency clauses
On-Premise
Fully air-gapped. Zero internet. Maximum data sovereignty.
- Runs entirely offline at the plant
- All data, all logs, all evidence stays at the plant
- USB / LAN-only updates
Best for
MAH chemical plants, MSIHC-regulated units, defence-adjacent supply chain
Bundles
Find Worksheet™ in the right bundle for your plant.
Customer outcome
Anonymised composite story
Day 31 to Day 1Project P&L visibility cycle
Pre-Worksheet, the engineering services plant in Hyderabad knew its project P&L on Day 31 of each month, after the manual timesheet reconciliation closed. By then, projects that had gone over-budget had been over-budget for 30 days. Post-Worksheet, the CFO sees live project P&L on Day 1 of the project. Loss-making PMs get flagged on Day 3, not Day 31. Annual margin recovery across the BU runs in the high single digits. Composite story drawn from real deployments. Industry, geography and metrics are representative.
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Worksheet™ FAQ
Inspector questions, plainly answered.
Is Worksheet a timesheet system?
Not in the traditional sense. Traditional timesheets are self-reported and lie. Worksheet anchors every time entry to a Gate in/out event, so the time evidence is the actual gate read, not a worker-entered cell in a spreadsheet.
Does Worksheet replace our payroll system?
No. Worksheet feeds project P&L, utilisation, billable hours, and shift records. Payroll consumption happens in your existing payroll system (Darwinbox, Keka, ADP, ZingHR). Zentry feeds hours, never runs payroll.
How does Worksheet integrate with our ERP?
Native connectors for SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Tally. Project codes flow from ERP into Worksheet. Burn and margin data flows from Worksheet back into the ERP for financial close.
What does 'gate-anchored' mean in practice?
Every time entry on a project must be backed by a Gate in/out event for that worker on that day. If the worker was not at the plant, the time cannot be claimed. This is what makes the time evidence audit-defensible.
Who buys Worksheet?
Plant CFOs, COOs, and Delivery / PMO Heads. Worksheet sells as an expansion module to existing Zentry deployments. The conversation typically starts post-deployment of the public five modules.
Does Worksheet run on-premise?
Yes. Worksheet runs on all three tiers: Cloud, Hybrid Edge, fully air-gapped On-Premise. Same project P&L logic, same evidence chain in every tier.
How is rework visibility actually generated?
Workers tag each activity entry with a 'first-time' or 'rework' flag. Supervisor approval workflow validates the flag. Rework hours roll up to project, team, and BU dashboards in real time. Rework rate is one of the standard PM-dashboard KPIs.
What's the typical first-quarter margin recovery after Worksheet goes live?
In production deployments, plants typically see 3 to 7 percent margin recovery in the first quarter, driven by rework visibility and live burn alerts. Annualised, this often pays for the platform several times over.
How it all connects
One event. Six audit narratives.
Every gate read, every kiosk submission, every certificate validation lands in a single tamper-evident, signed log. From that one event, six modules produce six distinct evidence trails, for six different audits, six different inspectors and six different heads inside the plant.