Employee information

The scheduling process must unite the labor demand with the employees who are qualified to perform that labor. The employees must be configured in the system, and their qualifications, availability, and other work details must also be in the system. Much of this information can be interfaced from the HR system, but some may be maintained in the system.

This table shows the type of employee information that is required and the typical source for that information:

Employee Detail	Employee Import	Maintained in the system	Notes
Basic information (name, hire date, etc)	Yes	No
Job qualifications	Some	Some	Typically the primary job may come from the HR system while in-training or secondary jobs are maintained in the system.
Skill qualifications	Occasionally	Yes	If there is an existing skill tracking system, then you could interface these qualifications in the employee import. But typically the skills are maintained in the system.
Employee settings such as Min and Max Hours / Assignment Period	Yes	Some	These values are usually set in the employee import, but some of the fields, such as Max Hours / Assignment Period, might be maintained in the system.
Fixed shifts	No	Yes	Fixed shifts are recurring shifts assigned to employees that are not created through schedule optimization. These are typically maintained using the Employee Shift Pattern form, because it is uncommon for fixed shifts to be maintained on a separate system.