Strategic Labor Scheduling
Workforce Management Software
Your business needs to optimize labor resources in order to more closely match the demands of the business. Your company’s labor expenses are high and unplanned overtime costs are eating away at your bottom line. Additionally, the process of managing your workforce’s skills and certifications, vacation requests, shift swaps and unexpected sick calls is time consuming and complex. To operate at full efficiency, your organization must equip management with real-time information in order to monitor staffing, analyze budget performance, and better control its’ labor costs – resulting in improved operations and increased customer satisfaction.
By optimizing employee schedules through Strategic Labor’s Workforce Scheduler, companies can reduce their labor costs, eliminate unnecessary overtime, and streamline business operations.
Strategic Labor specializes in providing total Workforce Management solutions which allow companies to significantly reduce their labor costs. Our solution not only automates the time and labor collection process and the complex pay rule calculations, but also optimizes your labor force by ensuring employee schedules are matched to the most critical tasks.
To ensure your company always has the right employees at the right place at the right time, the Strategic Workforce Scheduler automates every possible workforce scheduling parameter. Our 100% web-based software executes a full range of employee scheduling tasks for some of the world’s largest Hospitality / Gaming, Energy, Manufacturing, Transportation, Government, Corrections and Healthcare organizations throughout the globe. From managing complex shift rotations to schedule-related issues, such as overtime equalization, shift and vacation bidding, complex Union requirements and skills management, Strategic Labor can handle it all, creating schedules in mere seconds rather than hours.
Key Features
The Strategic Labor Workforce Scheduler is the most robust and comprehensive employee scheduling solution on the market. The customizable parameters can be configured to automate hundreds of thousands of scheduling criteria. Labor schedules can be generated based on many unique factors such as:
- Occupancy/Volume Forecasts · Employee Schedule Preferences
- Employee Availability · Company and Union Rules
- Employee skill ratings or certifications · Best Practices
All of these variables may be calculated automatically, ensuring that the right employees are scheduled for the right jobs at the right times - without fail.
Last-minute schedule changes can also be easily accommodated with the solution. The application will automatically find replacement employees when someone calls in sick and can even be integrated into the company’s messaging system so that management doesn’t have to waste time making dozens of phone calls.
Strategic Labor’s workforce scheduling software also manages all of the important, peripheral functions usually handled manually or by separate applications and spreadsheets, such as:
- Requests for Days Off · Overtime Equalization
- Schedule Swapping Requests · Time Off Accruals
- Shift Bidding Procedures · Attendance Points Management
- Vacation Bidding Procedures
About Strategic Labor
Strategic Labor provides web based workforce management solutions for middle to large-sized organizations with complex scheduling rules. Strategic Labor’s products are deployed across the hospitality, petro-chemical, transportation, corrections and healthcare sectors and can be delivered in an on premise license or a vendor hosted model. Strategic Labor is based in Worcester, Massachusetts. More information on Strategic Labor can be found at www.strategiclabor.com
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