Operative and short term Staff Scheduling and Monitoring

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You want to generate efficient and transparent personnel plans in operative day-to-day business? ORion-PI^® Staff Planning & Scheduling helps you compare required and available staff hours and then derives the optimal staff assignment.

Operational staff scheduling and monitoring with ORion-PI^® includes:

Capacity analysis by days, shifts or even minutes
Demand-oriented absence and manpower planning
Person related rescheduling in between shifts and departments
Control of restrictions like company agreements such as rest periods or vacation entitlement
Generation of graphical and tabular schedules
Interactive planning charts for designing and modifying working schedules and production plans
Support for planners in planning and rescheduling: generated work schedules based on shift models and for rescheduling proposal lists considering availabilities and qualifications
Support for calculating impacts of short term decisions like changes in operating hours, work schedules, rescheduling, illness and unexpected demand situations.

By balancing actual demands and available personnel resources ORion-PI^® identifies emerging bottlenecks or idle times and generates an alternative solution scenario. Reciprocally, the software proposes solutions for personnel absences when areas are overstaffed. All imbalances concerning the staff assignment thus can be identified and reduced.

When generating optimal personnel plans ORion-PI^® Staff Planning & Scheduling accounts for all relevant planning information and restrictions:

Employee profiles such as qualifications, preferences and restrictions – especially relevant in production
Detailed representation of hierarchical department structure
Shift and working time models
Public vacation calendar and bank holidays
Data on recent sick-leaves and vacation
Fixed personnel demands and minimal deployment per department

As day-to-day business is always subject to short-term changes ORion-PI^® enables the continuous matching of staff plans and current workload. Thus you can flexibly react to changes in the plan. Clearly arranged reports illustrate the calculated solutions and allow the quick and transparent modification of planning parameters.

Short-term changes in staff scheduling are very often caused by volatile customer demand and consequently dynamic incoming orders. To establish a statement about the actual performance degree ORion-PI^® offers an integrated solution for production planning. Whereas in the longterm, strategic planning a calculation of the required staff based on averaged productivities is sufficient, the operative production planning is geared to a more detailed demand calculation. In logistics, therefore calculations in ORion-PI^® are based on the individual storage layout of customers, mapping the complete structure of the distribution/ logistics center with underlyingMTM time components – ranging from zone, deposit and article position to aisle for the calculation of routes. In production the basis for calculations are facilities and resources, required staff qualifications and bills of material. With the specific storage layouts or facilities and resources the data for the actual work load of dynamic incoming orders can be calculated exactly and loads per area or facility during the day defined. This variant of the production planning delivers an accurate basis for the operative staff scheduling and monitoring.