Automated Workforce Scheduling

• Automates the process of generating, reviewing and modifying employee schedules to match fluctuations in production needs.
• Increases asset utilization and minimizes downtime by ensuring the necessary resources and skills are available when needed.

• Manages multiple constraints and schedules employees based on availability, qualifications, skills, and scheduling regulations.
• Minimizes risk and improves compliance by automating and consistently applying scheduling rules and policies.

• Maintains leave balances and equalizes overtime to ensure accurate and fair scheduling.
• Reduces employee grievances and overtime labor costs.

• Allows employees to rank their preferences for open jobs and automatically generates a list of qualified candidates for openings.
• Reduces time and complexity of filling open positions and optimizes productivity.

• Helps control and reduce the costs associated with employee absence.
• Tracks accrued balances for an unlimited number of leave types.
• Provides robust vacation planning and administration improving the efficiency of long-term vacation planning and accuracy of the individual vacation assignments.

• Automatically schedules best employees based on availability, skills and compliance.
• Leverages multi-skilled employees and reduces idle time.

• Provides manager with flexible tools to easily and effectively reassign one or many employees to address a wide variety of staffing and scheduling issues.

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Analytics and Reporting

• Provides managers with visibility reports.
• Forecasts, analyzes, and manages labor requirements for optimum efficiency.

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Employee Self-Service

• Allows employees to better control their own work schedule by providing up-to-the-minute schedule viewing, ability to submit requests for time-off, volunteer for overtime, swap jobs, and bid for open shifts or jobs.
• Increases productivity by providing direct and immediate access for updates.
• Improves employee morale by taking employee preferences into account.
• Optional kiosk provides easy-to-use interface.

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Enterprise Integration Tools

• ScheduleSoft employee scheduling software has a robust suite of tools designed to integrate workforce scheduling data with Time & Attendance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Human Resources, and Payroll systems.
• Integration with ERP and HR systems enhances compliance with safety regulations and training initiatives.
• Comparing historical Time & Attendance data with schedule data provides front line management the ability to uncover true labor costs.