Schedule24™ Professional delivers powerful and comprehensive features to manage the range of workforce factors needed to deliver cost effective staff deployment strategies. Staff scheduling is a mission-critical process.

Schedule24™ Professional is all you need to manage this process and deliver both an effective and efficient business. If you need to update your ideas on how to manage your most expensive assets and reduce risk, then Schedule24™ Professional will help you:

Microsoft office Style Interface
Schedule24™ Professional workflow is delivered with the familiar Microsoft Office interface for ease of use and navigation. This reduces product training costs and delivers a shallow learning curve.

Automated Staff Scheduling Wizard
The scheduling and shift design wizard is designed to help you work out more complex shift patterns. The schedule wizard will automatically generate a wide range of the most common shift patterns based on the options you select. The rules will automatically generate a perpetual schedule for as long as you need it. You can open the shift pattern created by the wizard from within the shift design environment, allowing further modification.

Staff Manager
A comprehensive staff manager keeps all your staff information and contact details in one place for swift access during the course of your scheduling. Information about job titles, skills and roles, including time stamping authorizations, can be used to ensure better choices are made. Once staff details have been entered in one schedule you can instantly import those details into a new schedule, avoiding the need to re-enter data.

Shift Pattern Designer
Experienced managers can create any combination of shift patterns using the Shift Pattern Design environment. Over thirty rules can be integrated to automatically generate perpetual schedules over long date ranges. A visual approach is adopted, including color mapping, to build the rule base of shifts and day-off/day-on ratios to match any demand profile. There is no limit to the types of shifts, descriptions or combinations. No programming skills are required.

Team Manager
Keeps track of staff allocations to multiple shift patterns. It enables staff to be re-allocated to other teams or different shift patterns. You have total control to select the date when changes take place, including “locking-down” patterns of working before and after new shift pattern changes are activated. Matching differences between changes in shift rotation cycles is also supported to provide continuity of the overall shift scheduling strategy. No programming skills are required.

Multiple Schedules and Views
Schedule24™ Professional provides a workflow which integrates a range of workforce factors to enable you to work in a rich environment of information in the same area. You can move between discrete scheduling processes and different levels of information, confident that everything is tracked and monitored. All your scheduling decisions can be made without leaving this rich data environment. The user can select various views to display more or less information. Additional information about cost breakdown and calculations are similarly displayed.

Assignments and Unavailability
You can add more information about assignments or tasks to a staff shift. Each entry is uniquely indexed so you do not have to worry about keeping track of assignments and unavailability when making changes. Everything will be accurately cross-referenced to inform staff about duties and assignments when the schedules are published. You can attach a memo to communicate any kind of information to all staff, whether working or not.

Monitoring and Analysis
The greatest challenge of scheduling is managing the impact that absences have on staff headcounts. When recording sickness or leave, you can monitor the effects on the distribution profile and staff headcount by a range of categories including job title and team grouping. Another challenge is keeping track of staff working hours and costs. You can dynamically display staff working hours and costs over any date range. This can be extended to include the total hours and costs for each day by category.

Publishing
You can print both long range schedules and more detailed daily schedules in the traditional manner, with options for the amount of content included. Web publishing makes your schedules conveniently accessible. Emailing schedules and attachments means that staff are kept up to date far more efficiently than with traditional methods.