EmpCenter™ Advanced Scheduler

Turbo charge your workforce management efforts with EmpCenter Advanced Scheduler. Demand-based scheduling allows organizations to automatically change staffing levels based on forecasted demand. Rather than waste critical time trying to determine how many staff members to schedule, and when to schedule them, the Advanced Scheduler automatically performs the right calculations and generates the right schedule.

Advanced Scheduler helps organizations decrease overtime payments by optimizing employee schedules. Schedules are optimized automatically by applying business rules designed to minimize costs while meeting employee and organizational needs.

An Internet-based application, Advanced Scheduler is designed for mid-sized and large organizations with complex needs. Deploying the EmpCenter Advanced Scheduler helps organizations decrease overtime costs, minimize schedule-processing time, and increase employee satisfaction through greater flexibility.

Demand-Based Scheduling — Enables each group or department to create schedules specific to that department’s forecasted demand for labor. Because staffing ratios can vary from organization to organization or department to department, Advanced Scheduler is extremely flexible and able to tackle even the most complex workforce scenario.

Auto-Scheduling — Automatically configures the best schedule based on requirements, employee skills, planned time off, and budgets. After generating the schedule, supervisors can then reassign, add, or subtract employees for special circumstances.

Shift Bidding — Many organizations allow employees to bid for the shift or schedule that they want. This process can take a long time and is error prone. The Advanced Scheduler can streamline the process by using auto-assignment rules during employee sign-up periods, which assign the right employees to the right shifts.

Overtime Equalization — Fair distribution of overtime can be a morale issue or a contractual issue for most complex organizations. Being able to determine who is assigned the extra shift can save organizations significant grievance pay, and can lead to increased morale among employees. The Advanced Scheduler supports multiple-union environments, so each group can be canvassed for overtime using a wholly distinct rules set.

Leave Management — It is impossible to optimize a workforce schedule without knowing which employees are out or scheduled to be out in the future. EmpCenter integrates a comprehensive leave management system into the Scheduler so that organizations can manage both employee schedules and employee leave from the same system. Approved leave requests are written directly to the schedule, and the employee is automatically marked as unavailable for regular work. Multiple vacation groups can be managed so that one set of employees can be approved for vacation following one set of rules, and another group can be approved following a different set of rules.

• Schedule to any level of granularity in the organization through robust data configuration options
• Automatically schedule thousands of employees and jobs at the click of a button
• Choose from thousands of possible rule configurations that match your business processes and policies
• Select the right employee for the right job the first time, utilizing a full range of scheduling tools at the scheduler’s disposal
• Streamline and manage the implementation of complex overtime rules and processes with integrated overtime management
• Manage rules based on assignment of jobs and shifts in conjunction with the organization’s rules and policies for job bidding.