The Facts on Ever-Changing Staff Requirement Rostering

1.  Labour planning efficiency and $cost management play a core role in high labour requirements in most service businesses. Let’s call this the Budget  

2. Rosters are required to be built, offering employees advanced notice of the work days and times they will be scheduled to work. The shifts could be as much as 4 to 6 weeks in advance.

The Problems in Rostering are

1.     As we advance the roster for next week, the shift planning could be as much as 6 weeks out of date, requiring amendments to achieve the budgeted labour cost. and

2.     We need to amend rosters to fit the latest service requirements for the shifts and to meet budgeted labour requirements and $costs. Let’s call this the Estimate, and

3.     We then need to compare Actuals with the latest Estimate  and Budget

The Solution to Demand-Driven Rostering

1.     Use Inzenius to create the annular rosters as part of the Budgeting process, that

2.     Create the Estimate for the review demand-built roster using the Inzenius Demand Builder, and

3.     Capture the Actual labour costs from the interpreted timesheet that are used for automated Payroll.

The Estimate demand builder requires the department roster to be constructed based on the Activity (Event Type), Date Range,  and Location, then

This roster will be created and compared against the original Budget roster to verify compliance and make any required changes to deliver an on-budget outcome aligned with the latest business demands.

These estimated results are derived from the configured staff category for each event, the required number of staff per unit of service delivery, and the start and finish times for each employee category, as configured in the system.

That’s Inzenius Intelligence

 

The Simple Process of Updating Rosters Using the Inzenius Roster Needs Validation

The data in the Demand Roster Form

Run the business’s own formatted comparison MS PowerBI report to identify any under- or over-rostered numbers and times

Builds a roster with the required skills and work times based on the configured algorithm

Labour Cost Report

Built a roster with the required skills and work times based on the configured algorithm

System Actual Labour to Revenue Report

Sample Labour Analysis Report

Sample MS Power BI Labour Analysis Report