Scenario 4 - Using Staffing Requirements

ABC Police Services is performing scheduling for its police department. Prior to schedule editing, the scheduler defines the staffing requirements within the Staffing Requirements page and navigates to the Job Requirements view within the MVS to manage and edit the schedules. Job times are seen as overlapping start and end times when people are scheduled to jobs. There are no restrictions on which jobs can or cannot appear in overlapping job times. The scheduler can edit employee's schedule details, as well as view coverage for the various police departments based on the job requirements.

In addition to editing employee's schedule details, the scheduler can also create unstaffed shifts. The newly-created unstaffed shifts can be assigned to existing job times (already defined within the staffing requirements) or could result in generation of a completely new job time if the unstaffed shift does not correspond to an existing job time. In either case, creating a new unstaffed shift will require the scheduler to define the job time in which to place the unstaffed shift.

Any unstaffed shifts created directly within the MVS do not affect the staffing requirements. Coverage will therefore show overage situations.