Shift
Planning
Shift
Planning
Solve work shift planning with PGPlanning. This way, you will be able to generate your schedule.
You may find yourself in 3 situations when facing work shift planning problems:
1. Firstly, you have an agreed pattern with your team and want to use it for your schedule.
CYCLE, ROTATION, OR KNOWN PATTERN
Whether through a works council, private negotiation, or because you’ve had it for a long time and it fits you. For example, a schedule like a 6-3 or 6-4, in which you work 6 days and have 3 or 4 consecutive days off.
In this scenario, you most likely need to improve your day-to-day management. In this case, you can transfer that cycle to the tool, generate the annual schedule, and enjoy all the functionality, information, and data analysis in an integrated environment.
2. Secondly, you need a solution. Therefore, just any solution won’t suffice for you.
CALCULATION ENGINE OR PATTERN CALCULATOR
Analyze, search, and optimize the different solutions by considering all variables and their priority to offer possible solutions.
You need a solution tailored to your needs, employees, and business. Therefore, you shouldn’t just choose any pattern (from the internet or other companies) for your shift planning and use it. It’s clear that each pattern must be adjusted to the specific needs of each company.
You know you want a rotating pattern or cycle for your team, but you’re not sure which one. With all this in mind, you have clear insights into your schedule, the number of people you have, and what you want to cover with those individuals. However, you’re struggling to find a solution.
PGPlanning offers you its shift pattern calculator or engine. With this calculation engine or calculator, you can search for multiple solutions to your problem. As a result, you can select the one that best suits your requirements.
With all this, input the necessary data so that the shift scheduler can calculate:
In a template, all employees who are going to use it must be the same; they cannot have different skills. However, if they did, PGPlanning allows you to use different templates.
Rules and restrictions to comply with, some examples:
As a result, the pattern generator of PGPlanning will propose a calculation regarding the agreed hours and the required personnel demand, thus offering you the number of employees you would need to meet that calculated pattern. Therefore, after running the engine, the different possible solutions will be displayed.
3. Lastly, a rotating cycle or shift pattern is not suitable to solve your problem. We understand you.
RULES ENGINE
The conditions are different for each worker, the demand varies each day of the week, etc. As a result, you cannot perform a rotation or rotating pattern due to personal or service conditions. However, our rules calculation engine will provide you with a complete annual schedule.
For this situation, we offer you our schedule generator based on what we call the rules engine. This way, you will have an innovative calculation engine that, by combining different algorithmic techniques, is capable of finding exclusive solutions for your problem. As a result, you will have a complete 365-day schedule.
Consequently, as with any problem, you have an initial situation with some input data.
a) First, ppeople you have available to cover shifts and their peculiarities.
b) Secondly thenecessary personnel demand to cover your service / business / production /…
c) Thirdly, rules and conditions that you must comply with or respect to generate the schedule.
Also, you can visit our Blog and learn more about shift scheduling.
