Welcome to our fortnightly showcase, full of release information and early looks at upcoming developments for the fortnight from 23/07 to 03/08!
Shift copy & paste, view timesheets & shift details – released
Key functionality enabling quick rostering
WHAT
- Users can now copy and paste single shifts
- Quick links to viewing shift details and timesheets
WHY
- Copy and paste allow quicker building of rosters
- Shift details & timesheet details allow quick off roster insights
Adherence to sort modes & ordering – released
Key functionality for roster customisation
WHAT
- Sort modes and order in staff & role views are now adhered to on the new roster builder
- Alphabetically sort roles or staff
- Custom sort roles or staff
- Group by primary roles in staff view
WHY
- Allows customers to group & order staff and roles in a meaningful way to them. All chefs, then waiters etc.
On roster shift tags – released
Tag shifts for quick identification
WHAT
- Allow shifts to be tagged with custom data and have it visually represented on the roster
WHY
- Make important shifts “pop” out from the roster
- Ensure important shifts get first attention for filling and quick resolution
Autofill & optimise roster – phase 1 in development
Implementing Ento’s autofill & optimise engine
WHAT
- Quickly autofill empty shifts within a roster
- Leverage per award rules to control the balance between costs, compliance and filling a shift
WHY
- A first step to automating rostering
- Save time, increase compliance and reduce costs
Autofill & optimise roster – phase 2 in development
Implementing Ento’s autofill & optimise engine
WHAT
- Either fill empty shifts or optimise both filled and unfilled shifts
- Autofill or optimise rosters contextually via selection
- Intuitive suggestion review process keeps information accessible but complexity hidden
WHY
- Quickly optimise and fill rosters so that rosters have the right staff at the right time
- Increase compliance, reduce costs and save time
- Visual review process will build trust in Ento’s algorithm as it creates smart suggestions
Timesheet driven demand – in development
Derive headcount need from past timesheets
WHAT
- Managers can now elect to use previous timesheets as demand drivers
- Will leverage existing forecast settings
WHY
- In the absence of demand drivers such as sales or footfall, headcount need can still be forecasted off timesheets
- A “no-effort” path to demand driven rostering
- Respond to constant timesheet over/under authorisation on rosters pre-publish.
Optimised roster and day navigation – in development
Intuitive navigation for faster rostering
WHAT
- Replaced the day/roster dropdown menu with individual day and roster buttons
- In roster and summary view a date can now be selected to navigate to the corresponding day
- Select a health metric in the roster health bar to navigate to the corresponding roster mode
- Improved day view navigation so that users can see when they have reached the start or end of their roster
WHY
- Make it easier to move between modes and views
- Increase the speed at which rostering managers can fix roster health issues
Compliance mode – in design
Easily resolve compliance issues within rosters
WHAT
- A new roster mode to help quickly identify non-compliant areas within rosters
- Heat mapping within summary to quickly identify days with the most compliance issues
- Made compliance alerts revealed by default in day and roster view
WHY
- Allow rostering managers to easily identify days that are negatively affecting roster health and resolve compliance alerts
Roster publish & approval processes – in design
Define & promote business objectives
WHAT
- Roster health information when publishing rosters
- Additional levels of permissions to allow blocking roster publish based on health status
- Ability to publish or reject rosters and leave comments for other managers
WHY
- Providing a clear entry point for rostering managers to resolve any issues with a roster
- Allowing business objectives to be adhered to at all levels
Other features
Workflow performance – released
Workflow performance has been improved as it sometimes took more than a minute to create a new workflow
Message sending redesign – in development
Redesigned the message sending system to reduce delivery time from to less than 5 seconds
Scale ready forecast engine – in development
Redeveloped the forecast engine to increase sales forecasting speed by 3 times and enable scaling to cope with higher workloads
Roster UI performance – in development
30% overall improvement to roster performance with intent to reach 55-65% improvement in the coming week
