Streamline workforce management and employee scheduling with the EmpCenter Advanced Scheduler. The Advanced Scheduler ensures you have the right people at the right job at the right time, while minimizing labor costs and overtime expenses.

Strategically manage your workforce with EmpCenter Advanced Scheduler and get your workforce optimized today.

Scheduling the Right Resources at the Right Times
EmpCenter Advanced Scheduler uses your staffing requirements, employee skills, and availability to create an optimal employee schedule. By putting the right staff in place, you run your business more effectively. Customers are better served. Production lines stay on track. Revenue increases. The optimal schedule also minimizes costs because the least expensive resource is assigned to each available job.

Solution Benefits:

• Meet Strategic HR staffing and scheduling objectives such as cross training
• Forecast business volumes and staffing needs based on key leading indicators
• Ensure you are adequately staffed for projected business volumes
• Base staffing decisions on employee skill and proficiency

Control Overtime, Comply with Overtime Equalization Rules
Minimizing overtime and distributing it fairly impacts both the bottom line and employee morale. The Advanced Scheduler calculates the number of hours an employee already worked during the week, so the organization can fill positions with staff who will incur the least amount of overtime. The solution also supports complex scheduling scenarios, like union environments that require overtime equalization for the fair distribution of overtime hours.

Solution Benefits:

• Decrease overtime
• Schedule employees according to complex union rules
• Quickly dispose of union grievances with a detailed audit trail
• Improve employee morale

Scheduling Unpopular Shifts and Popular Vacation Periods
Getting employees to fill unpopular shifts can be challenging. Organizations that run 24/7 year round, including weekends and holidays, do so because it is mission critical. However, they face the challenge of how to fill those shifts within a framework that allows them to attract and retain the best labor within their market.

The Advanced Scheduler creates schedules according to each organization’s business rules, so seniority and work history dictate who should work the next unpopular shift or during a popular vacation period.

Solution Benefits:

• Improve employee satisfaction
• Decrease overtime pay
• Decrease the number of union grievances

Filling last-minute illness vacancies
If you are going to lose production or customers when an employee calls in sick, you need to find a replacement – and you must choose one quickly. However, you want to get a replacement that best fills the need and does not incur overtime, while granting requests to employees that already expressed a need for additional hours.

The Advanced Scheduler is loaded with employee profiles, work history, and employee requests, so it can find the best fit at the click of a button. It quickly provides you a call-list, with contact information so your supervisors or schedulers can find replacements quickly.

Solution Benefits:

• Fewer down times ensure you are fully staffed
• Faster substitute discovery
• Increase employee satisfaction via fulfillment of “extra work” requests

Schedule & Shift swapping
Shift swaps are popular, and many organizations find it is a terrific way to reduce absenteeism. Companies that give employees greater control over their schedules and allow them to proactively manage their absences spend less on overtime costs, because their employees do not have to resort to calling in sick or taking personal leave.

Advanced Scheduler allows your employees to initiate the swap on their own. Your business rules decide whether the swap is acceptable to the organization, or you may decide to send the request to a supervisor for approval.

Solution Benefits:

• Increased employee satisfaction due to increased shift flexibility
• Decreased absenteeism
• Decreased lost productivity due to employee visits to supervisor during manual shift swaps