Welcome to our fortnightly showcase, full of release information and early looks at upcoming developments for the fortnight from 06/08 to 17/08!
Autofill & optimise roster (Phase 1) – In Beta
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
Phase 1
- Quickly autofill empty shifts within a roster
- Leverage per award rules to control the balance between costs, compliance and filling a shift
Phase 2
- Autofill & optimise rosters contextually via selection on roster
- Intuitive suggestion review process
- Impact summary of the autofill & optimise process
WHY
- Allows managers to apply or dismiss each suggestion
- Providing managers with a summary of the improvements that the autofill & optimise process has had on their rosters to build trust in the algorithm
Shift custom data – released
Attach additional information to shifts
WHAT
- Custom data options within the shift create/edit panel
- Connect into visual shift tags to call out important shifts
WHY
- Enable us to roll out NRB to customers using shift custom data
- Attach custom data to shifts for pay, bill or audit reasons
- Coming soon! Communicate custom data to employees
Timesheet driven demand – in development
Derive headcount need from past timesheets
WHAT
- Use previous authorised timesheets as demand drivers
- Will leverage existing forecast settings
- Authorising timesheets for a given day and see the headcount need changes reflected in future rosters
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.
Roster settings & row reordering – in development
Bringing customisation to your roster
WHAT
- Hide/show empty rows on a roster
- Group employees by role
- Expand grouped shifts
- Reordering of roles, employees and areas
WHY
- Allows rostering managers to organise their rosters to make the rostering process as efficient as possible
Roster review process – in concept
Control and review unhealthy rosters
WHAT
- Control who and when rosters can be submitted, reviewed and published
- Combine roster health with manager permissions to build robust workflows
- New roster states, approved and rejected
- Leave comments for other managers within a roster when submitting, reviewing or publishing
- Additional manager permissions to review rosters
WHY
- Increased visibility on the state of a roster and communication as to why it is in that state
- Keep communication contextual and in one place
- Increased feature purpose and opinion creates clarity and greater usability without sacrificing flexibility
New roster publish – in design
Roster health centric publishing of rosters
WHAT
- Clearer understanding of overall and individual metric health
- Publish or submit a roster depending on permissions
- Blocking of publish or submit based on roster health
WHY
- Allows rostering managers to see if they are meeting business objectives before publishing or submitting a roster
- Adding a two step process for comments allows for better communication between manager
Roster health preferences – in concept
Define company health metrics
WHAT
- Ability to toggle roster health metrics on and off
- Define the low and critical thresholds for each individual roster health metric
- Initially at a company level, future state will allow per store group definitions
WHY
- Personalise roster health with business level metrics
- Define critical thresholds which control review processes
- Flows into roll-up reporting
Roster health report – in concept
See your company’s roster health
WHAT
- Roster health report to get an overview of the roster health of all your rosters
- Visualisations of health metrics across all rosters or filtered areas
WHY
- Provides an overview of the roster health on all rosters as well as an average for each health metric at a company level
Other features
Scale ready forecast engine – released
Redeveloped the forecast engine to increase sales forecasting speed by 3 times and enable scaling to cope with higher workloads
Message sending redesign – in development
Redesigned the message sending system to reduce delivery time to less than 5 seconds
Keyboard shortcuts – in development
Keyboard shortcuts and confirmations for copy, paste and delete on a roster in the new roster builder
Roster UI performance – released
Across the board performance increase when using your roster (selecting, navigating, creating, editing) by 60%
See you next fortnight for another update! Feel free to check out past fortnights here.
