Labor Scheduler

Infor introduces a new module Labor Scheduler. Labor Scheduler is a comprehensive scheduler with the following features:

• Rules Based Auto Scheduler: Automatically generates an ideal schedule, based on projected requirements, employee skill assignments, employee job assignments, employee preferences, planned time-off and budgetary considerations.
• Demand Based Scheduling: uses historical data on an hourly or daily basis, to determine the best employee schedule to meet business requirements.
• Schedule Compliance: Ensures that all manual schedule edits adhere to the organizational schedule rules that have been configured.
• Schedule Auditing/Logging: For audit purposes all decisions made by the Auto Scheduler are logged. In addition to logging of the Auto Scheduler all manual schedule edits that have been made to a schedule are also logged.
• Conflicts: Conflicts are logical conditions used by schedule generation and schedule compliance to prevent certain combinations of Jobs from being scheduled on an employee’s schedule, or to prevent employees, or jobs, from being scheduled in sequence or concurrently.
• Vacation Bidding: The vacation bidding functionality provides a rule based approach to administering vacations. It provides the scheduler with the ability to define:
  • Groups of employees that are to be considered together for the purposes of determining the number of employees who may be off on vacation at the same time.
  • A method for determining the number of employees who may be off at once.
  • Sets of rules used to prioritize the employees based on the organization¡¦s sorting and tiebreaking rules.
• Shift Bidding: The Shift Bidding functionality provides a rule based approach to administering shift assignments. It provides the scheduler with the ability to define:
  • Groups of employees that are to be considered together for the purposes of determining the number of employees who may work the same shift.
  • A method for determining the number of employees who may be scheduled at once to the same shift.
  • Sets of rules used to prioritize the employees based on the organization¡¦s sorting and tiebreaking rules.
• Overtime Equalization: The overtime functionality provides the user with a prioritized list of employees to offer overtime shifts to. It allows the scheduler to record the results of both negative offers as well as assign the shift to employees who accept the overtime offer.

For more information, refer to the following:

• Labor Scheduler User Guide
• Labor Scheduler System Administrators Guide