Shiftboard

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.

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