Labor Scheduling
Optional Module
for use with the Unify3 POS System

Introduction

Business Rules

Weekly Schedules

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Weekly Schedules

Creating A New Weekly Schedule

Creating a new weekly schedule allows you to determine a number of parameters to generate your schedule. The Week Starting Date parameter determines what the starting date for the week is. The entered date here will always be modified according to what was set for the System Parameter "Time Keeping/Labor Scheduling Starting Weekday". For example, if the "Starting Weekday" was set for Sunday and the operator entered 03/06/00 it would automatically be changed to 03/05/00 since the date entered is a Monday.

The Forecast % Increase/Decrease Over Daily Averages parameter is used by the "auto-scheduler" to increase or decrease the calculated daily averages. The Selected Prior Weeks For Daily Averages is filled with the last eight weeks' starting week dates. The selected dates here are used by the "auto-scheduler" to come up with daily averages for those selected weeks and then compare those averages to the current weekly schedule to determine if any additional sales persons need to be added to the schedule.

Set the Store Open & Close Hours to determine the start of a working day and the end of a working day for automatically scheduling Sales Associates. A Sales Associate's minimum shift of 4 hours, for example, will be backed up from the closing time to accommodate a full 4 hour shift to end at the Closing Time.

Assign / Edit Weekly Schedule
Schedule Maintenance allows you to select the Employee, Starting and Ending Time, and Schedule Date. Unify3 will check for scheduling conflicts and warn the operator if one exists.

Graphically Viewing The Weekly Schedule
You may graphically view your schedule on the screen allowing you to preview it before printing it. You may switch between Weekly Horizontal, Weekly Vertical, Daily Horizontal, and Daily Vertical views.

Printing The Weekly Schedule
You may easily print the weekly schedule to distribute to your employees.

Duplicating A Weekly Schedule
The purpose of duplicating a weekly schedule is to allow you to quickly create a weekly schedule from an existing weekly schedule. This is very useful in smaller stores where there are a limited number of employees and where the employees usually work the same schedule every week.

Enter the Week Creating Schedule For date to copy the weekly schedule.

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