Welcome to our fortnightly showcase, full of release information and early looks at upcoming developments for the fortnight from 9/07 to 20/07!
On roster demand visualisations – released
Actionable on roster visualisations
WHAT
- New headcount need graphs that are action oriented by focusing on the difference between headcount need and rostered
WHY
- Enable us to roll out the new roster builder to customers using the labour demand graph
- Lay foundations for mature demand forecasting & auto rostering
Shift suggestions, copy & paste, row ordering – in development
Key functionality enabling quick rostering
WHAT
- Shift suggestions within the edit panel
- Shift copy & paste for fast shift creation
- Row ordering from classic roster builder will be adhered to (reordering in the new roster builder coming soon)
WHY
- Three most commonly mentioned features in post go-live customer feedback
Shift custom data – in development
Attach additional information to shifts
WHAT
- Custom data options within the shift create/edit panel
WHY
- Enable us to roll out NRB to customers using shift custom data
Smart fill & optimise roster – v1 in development
Implementing Ento’s optimise & fill engine
WHAT
- Option to auto-fill all unassigned shifts within a roster
WHY
- This is the first step in implementing Ento’s optimise & fill engine
Smart fill & optimise roster – in design
Implementing Ento’s optimise & fill engine
WHAT
- Single & multi select autofill user journeys
- Optimise assigned shifts
- Suggestion review process to accept or reject suggested employees
WHY
- Enable rostering managers to efficiently fill unassigned shifts
- Enabling rostering managers to optimise their filled shifts against company level KPIs
- Build trust of system driven decisions with rostering managers
Roster health – in design
Define & promote business objectives
WHAT
- Triage process through the information panel to address demand, compliance & costing alerts
- Roster health information when publishing rosters
- Additional levels of permissions to allow blocking publish based on health status
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
Smart leave assignment – released
To allow better association of empty shifts to leave
- Client led development
- New permission under employee permission profile
- Leave is assigned to the role of the shift the employee have on the day of the leave, or their primary role
- Allows more granular cost attribution of leave
- Can be used to visualise why a role has a different person or more people working
- Can be used to infer linkage between leave and unfilled shifts
Other features
Forecast optimisation – in development
Improving architectural design for sales & forecast engine
Roster UI performance – in development
A loop back to address the speed of user interactions and scrolling performance on larger rosters
Message sending redesign – in development
Redesigning the message sending system to dramatically increase speed of delivery
Workflow performance – in development
Workflow performance will be improved as it sometimes takes more than a minute to create a new workflow
