Tailor-Fit Schedule Automation
Maximize scheduling efficiency with highly configurable automation that mirrors each plant and unit’s operation.
- Support industry-specific scenarios such as production line changes, job rotations, emergency response team assignments, and turnarounds.
- Automate scheduling steps matching internal procedures and union agreements.
- Generate schedules with your operation areas, crew, and shift pattern structures.
- Auto-block violations against employment laws, union contracts, fatigue rules, and internal policies.
Proactive Worker Engagement
Improve worker satisfaction and retention with flexible, fair, and transparent schedules.
- Track and accommodate employee schedule preferences.
- Allow eligible workers to volunteer, pick up, trade, or decline new shifts on demand.
- Distribute overtime fairly based on overtime balance, seniority, job classification, shift refusal history, etc.
- Offer workers secure web and mobile access to check schedules, pick up shifts, request leave, and more.
Agile Change Management
Fill last-minute coverage gaps quickly with qualified, available, and willing workers using a plethora of day-of management tools.
- Spot coverage gaps with a single view of staffing levels across all operating areas.
- Backfill openings swiftly with an on-demand list of available and qualified workers.
- Assign contingent labor to supplement staffing via volunteer signup, bidding, immediate shift pickup, and more.
- Notify workers about schedule changes and promote new shifts with automated calls, emails, SMS, and mobile notifications.
Continuous Coverage Optimization
Create more coverage possibilities with intelligent scheduling suggestions powered by a robust, always-on optimization engine.
- Shuffle scheduled workers before resorting to overtime and agency staffing.
- Split shifts into segments to accommodate flex pools with varying availability.
- Reassign underutilized workers to understaffed areas automatically.
- Prioritize assigning workers with the lowest overtime cost implications.
- Rotate job assignments to maintain workers’ skills proficiency across multiple posts.
Effective Labor Demand Planning
Plan and scale staffing demand to meet production and service targets with confidence.
- Convert production and service targets into jobs, shifts, and skill-mix requirements.
- Ensure an adequate pool of workers for backup contingency with on-call scheduling, volunteer signup, and more.
- Add, extend, split, or remove shifts on demand as staffing demands fluctuate.
- Forecast long-term labor demands with advanced predictive capabilities.
Integrated Leave Management
Streamline leave approval processes and backfill vacancies swiftly with built-in absence management tools.
- Allow workers to submit leave requests and view their leave balance in real-time.
- Enforce leave approval criteria such as leave allowances, staffing levels, and more.
- Support company-specific policies surrounding paid and unpaid leaves, protected leave days, and more.
- Update schedules instantly and backfill openings upon approval of leave requests.
Seamless Timesheet Management
Capture work hours and pay codes accurately to reduce payroll errors.
- Allow workers to submit timesheets online.
- Auto-validate timesheet entries for errors and deviations.
- Automate timesheet approval and amendment workflows.
- Map and populate the correct pay codes for payroll export.
