Schedule costing and optimized schedules

The optimization engine always uses the LFSO algorithm when generating schedules to estimate the cost of assigning shifts. This is important to note because this estimated cost does not include adjustments for pay rules that adjust employee compensation. When using the budget rules with budgets in dollar amounts, this may cause discrepancies between the cost estimates used to evaluate the budget and the displayed or actual costs. This algorithm is used to estimate the costs when either the Staff Groups model or Auto-Assignment model are used to generate schedules.