Scheduling & Optimization

Advanced Scheduling & Optimization

Optimizing the Scheduling & Deployment of a Large, Complex Workforce

Complete and automated workforce scheduling is a significant component of strategic workforce management. The scheduling of employees is both a dynamic and critical element of business planning.

CyberShift's Advanced Scheduling and Optimization solutions give you the ability to match qualified employees to the needs of each job at the best cost. An intelligent scheduler allows you to create master schedules that can be used as templates for other locations, departments or groups of employees.

CyberShift's Automated Scheduling Engine uses configurable optimization rules and parameters to provide unlimited flexibility to optimize the deployment and management of your workforce. By optimizing the fit of your employees and contractors to expected workloads, you can control scheduling variations with 'best practice' templates that reflect your most efficient staffing models helping you to eliminate coverage gaps and overstaffing issues while keeping an eye on the bottom line.

CyberShift's Advanced Scheduling capabilities give you the flexibility to:

Optimize the fit of employees and contractors to expected workloads
Provide substitutions when needed
Drive best practices to your line managers
Support flexible staffing models effectively
Handle job bidding
Support shift trading

CyberShift Advanced Scheduling Differentiators

As an integrated component of CyberShift's Workforce Management 3G™ suite, Advanced Scheduling provides employees, contractors, managers and scheduling administrators with the flexibility to replicate, improve on and automate complex scheduling processes needed to remain efficient and competitive. CyberShift's rules-based platform delivers a fully integrated solution for the management of all aspects of scheduling. Our exceptional system design is focused on making your implementation a simple process and provides a quick return on investment. CyberShift's Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) leverages Java 2 Enterprise Edition standards and provides real-time integration with data acquisition devices, third party data sources and back office software applications to increase the value to your organization.

Used together with CyberShift's Time and Attendance and Self-service functions, the impact of vacation or leave requests, the absence of employees with unique skills or certifications and other organization specific rules can result in a powerful solution that continuously supports your business in meeting its objectives in real time. And all of this can be done while minimizing the time requirements of supervisors and managers by highlighting those conditions that demand attention.

Key Features of Advanced Scheduling

Advanced Scheduling provides employees, contractors, managers and scheduling administrators with the flexibility to replicate, improve on and automate the complex scheduling processes they follow day-to-day including:

Dynamic, Real-time Employee Scheduling System
Employee Position Scheduling
Shift Scheduling
Skill-based Scheduling
Schedule Planner Assistance or Full Schedule Optimization
Mass/Group Scheduling
Covers End-to-end Scheduling Process
Real-time Schedule Adjustments
Ensures Compliance with Rules & Regulations
Supervisor & Employee Job Position Preferences
Free Form Scheduling
Shift Trading & Bidding
Absence Scheduling
Mid-Day Absence Scheduling
Schedule Overrides
Overtime Forecasting, Equity & Management
Availability Management

Used together with the CyberShift Rules Engine, Administrators can construct rules to validate scheduling conditions. This powerful feature further eliminates scheduling errors by validating the scheduler request to the business rule prior to the event occurring.

Advanced Scheduling Offers UNPARALLELED Usability

The CyberShift Unified Workforce Interface (UWI) offers unprecedented usability through its unique single screen approach and design. Extensive usability studies confirm that these screens are more user friendly and intuitive than others on the market and require ZERO training for those end users who will be entering information. The result is a scheduling solution that is easy-to-use, easy-to-deploy and offers immediate productivity gains.

Ease-of-use through its intuitive single screen design, increasing user acceptance and ROI
Personalization without Customization to maximize productivity and employee satisfaction by tailoring screens to the needs of a particular employee or function
Advanced Automation of Business Processes with alerts, pending events, end-to-end process automation and more
On-line Help and Web-based Tutorials to walk supervisors, managers and users through process completion

Unlimited Flexibility

Instead of relying on costly customization that is difficult to support and upgrade, our Advanced Scheduling solutions offer inherent flexibility and adaptability. Highly configurable and scalable, we continue to address on-going requirements as your company evolves. With CyberShift's Advanced Scheduling you can rest assured that your workforce is always efficiently deployed.

CyberShift's industry-leading solutions are scalable and available for both in-house and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deployment options. Our solutions enable you to focus on workforce optimization while maximizing service and productivity.