Scheduling & Optimization

Complete and automated workforce scheduling is a significant component of strategic workforce management. The scheduling of employees is both a dynamic and critical element of business planning.

SumTotal Scheduling and Optimization gives you the ability to match qualified employees to the needs of each job at the best cost.

SumTotal’s automated scheduling engine uses configurable optimization rules and parameters to provide unlimited flexibility to optimize the deployment and management of your workforce. By optimizing the fit of your employees and contractors to expected workloads, you can control scheduling variations with 'best practice' templates that reflect your most efficient staffing models helping you to eliminate coverage gaps and overstaffing issues while keeping an eye on the bottom line.

Key capabilities of SumTotal Scheduling and Optimization include:

Demand Forecasting: SumTotal Scheduling and Optimization can import or interface to business data to map labor scheduling needs to required output volume, effectively serving as a demand forecasting system
Optimization of Scheduling: create optimum scheduling assignments based on demand, skills, pay rate, employee and job preferences, overtime equalization and employee availability. Presents job assignments for all work segments for a range of schedule periods. The Schedule identifies when employees are on overtime, working a position below their pay rate, not available to them or in excess of their pay rate. The number of employees needed, qualified and available is easily identified and essential job positions are highlighted.
Skills Management: Business rules within the system compare job assignments to required skills and the employee certifications to ensure only qualified employees are scheduled to specific job assignments
Availability of Employees: Employees view their scheduled work assignments and meetings scheduled by supervisors as well as manage their availability for time off

In addition, SumTotal Scheduling and Optimization gives your organization the flexibility to:

Optimize the fit of employees and contractors to expected workloads
Provide substitutions when needed
Drive best practices to your line managers
Support flexible staffing models effectively
Support shift trading (social scheduling)

Key Integration Points:

SumTotal provides an end-to-end, complete strategic Human Capital Management solution integrating workforce management, talent management, learning management, HR management and payroll and benefits management. In addition, SumTotal can easily integrate with existing third-party HR transactional, payroll and benefits systems.

Workforce Management: Integrated across the SumTotal strategic HCM solution, SumTotal Workforce Management provides powerful tools to effectively manage labor rules, ensure compliance, and control labor costs and expenses
Talent Management: Integrated within SumTotal’s strategic HCM solution, SumTotal Talent Management provides a unified view of your organizations talent management processes across all parts of strategic HCM
Learning Management: Integrated into the learning management solution, SumTotal can provide visibility into skills, certifications, and learning activities across talent and workforce management, as well as other parts of the strategic HCM process
HR Management System (HRMS): As the foundation of SumTotal’s strategic HCM solution, SumTotal HR Management provides a single source of truth of workforce data for all HCM processes
Payroll & Benefits: As an integrated service into the SumTotal’s strategic HCM solution, SumTotal Payroll and Benefits Management provides efficient, flexible and easy–to-use service well suited for complex environments

To learn more about specific capabilities, features, and benefits of SumTotal Scheduling and Optimization, download and review the product datasheet.