How to create a good, repeating roster with:
- a variable need for manpower:
three shifts on quiet days and four shifts during peak days?
Francois Greeff:
I have tried to use an Excel roster
to satisfy my requirements.
But that
requires a genius
and many days of sweat.
In fact
I think it is impossible.
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- with staff for all shifts?
- complying with labour laws?
- with sufficient days off for staff, preferably adjacent?
- a pleasant rhythm between shifts?
- a salary based on 45 hours per week?
- and with a budget that is too small to pay for
the price of
a tailormade roster software program?
Francois Greeff
contacted
SUMit
with these questions.
Being a manager he is responsible for the roster of his
± 50 employees at
a large petrol station between Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Well, who am I to disagree with him?
His requirements are indeed hard to solve without
artificial intelligence software.
But hard does not mean impossible.
I just can't let go of such a nice, impossible puzzle.
It is a nice challenge to find a solution and gain the honourable title of
Genius .
Solution: Roster Scheduling Method
Francois has received a solution from me:
a low-budget do-it-yourself method to schedule a roster using a Excel spreadsheet.
Francois is now a happy SUMit customer.
Order the on-line roster method now
Curious?
Read more about the SUMit roster design training.
Till
next week,
Nut
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