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Description ORTEC’s Workforce Scheduling solutions supports extensive checks on skills. The systems notifies any occurence of understaffing and helps your dispatcher to find the right candidate to fill in a vacant shift.

A company’s workforce is typically one of its most expensive as well as one of its most valuable assets. Workforce scheduling therefore, needs to focus on efficiency as well as employee retention and quality of life. ORTEC has designed and implemented workforce and shift scheduling software since 1981. Over the years, our advanced scheduling software has evolved into a number of proven solutions with more than 100 customers in different industries all over the world.

Challenge

Our advanced workforce and shift scheduling software helps to answer questions such as:

  • How to determine efficient duties (covering workload, while minimizing idle time)?
  • Which tasks or activities should be combined in a shift?
  • How many and what type of resources are required to cover the workload?
  • What is the best roster assigning employees to shifts?
  • Is your schedule compliant with all applicable labor and union rules and regulations?
  • Which employee should cover a vacant shift?

Furthermore, our software tracks all kinds of valuable information like: hours worked, overtime, vacation balances, sick time and much more.

Offering ORTEC’s workforce management solution helps you to schedule your employees and improve your business processes. In addition to advanced optimization engines, our solution provides intuitive plan boards and real time checks on skills, rules (e.g. labour and rest time regulation), and employee preferences. The solution supports the following phases in the planning process:

  • shift scheduling
  • real-time control
  • attendance recording
Furthermore, the online employee portal enables your employees to view their roster, request holidays and shift swaps, and check their balances (worked hours, overtime, and holidays).

The ORTEC Harmony solution takes into account the following aspects:

  • Duty Generation: this group of functions combines sophisticated optimization and workforce scheduling technology with the ability to include customer specific requirements. 
  • Employee Scheduling: employee scheduling can be a challenging task. Especially for companies with large hourly workforces, multi-shift environments and complex labor laws and regulations.
  • Real-time Crew dispatch : our workforce Scheduling software supports basic crew dispatch functionality and provides an organized overview of uncovered shifts and indicates which employees should be assigned to vacant shifts
  • Time & Attendance Recording: the Time & Attendance Recording functionality automatically tracks all kinds of information based on the employee schedules.
Benefits:
  • Decrease the time spent on creating and maintaining a planning.
  • Improve the quality of the roster by taking into account skills and legislation.
  • Increase employee satisfaction by taking into account personal wishes and a ‘fair’ distribution of work.
  • Improve your business processes with uniform planning and management information.
  • Save time and prevent errors by integration with a salary system.
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