1. SumTotal Strategic
Human Capital Management
Scheduling & Optimization
Advanced Workforce CALCUALTE EXACT
STAFFING NEEDS
Optimization
SumTotal Scheduling & Optimization solution is a dynamic, real-time scheduling
system that incorporates advanced functions such as employee preferences,
skills, overtime equalization, pay rates, seniority and planned leaves into
workforce scheduling. We cover the entire scheduling process from end-to-end
including scheduling preferences, shift bidding and trading, schedule creation
and reporting while allowing for real-time schedule adjustments.
With SumTotal Scheduling & Optimization, you’ll make better staffing decisions, Schedule optimizer lets managers
ensuring that the right number of appropriately qualified people is in the right calculate exact staffing needs based
place at the right time ensuring you of an efficiently deployed workforce. on expected business demand.
Recognizing that your people are your most valuable asset, the ability to create
an employee schedule that defines which people and skills are needed and
optimize the matching of qualified, available employees while minimizing labor
costs has taken on tremendous strategic significance.
SumTotal Scheduling & Optimization capabilities give you the flexibility to:
■ Optimize the fit of employees and contractors to expected work loads
■ Provide substitutions when needed
■ Drive best practices for scheduling to your line managers
■ Create optimum schedules
■ Analyze results through advanced reporting capabilities
■ Adjust schedules in real-time
■ Handle job bidding
■ Support shift trading
Key Features
SumTotal Scheduling & Optimization solutions have been designed to accom-
modate the needs of enterprise-class distributed organizations, with centrally
hosted scheduling that can be localized to meet the unique needs of each busi-
ness and each business location. We provide a choice of scheduling methods
based on your industry and needs including shift scheduling, employee posi-
tion scheduling, mass/group scheduling, full and mid-day absence schedul-
ing, skill-based scheduling, scheduling overrides and more. Key features of
SumTotal Scheduling & Optimization include:
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2. ■ Master Schedule Manager – create optimum scheduling assignments based EASY TO USE
on shift, skills, pay rate, employee and job preferences, overtime equalization
and employee availability. Presents job assignments for all shifts for a range
of schedule periods.
■ Free Form Scheduling – free form scheduled hours are defined in the Master
Schedule using a start and end time.
■ “Best Fit” Job Assignment Optimizer – optimization rules are configurable The daily schedule gives
and the optimizer evaluates all available employees to determine the lowest managers an intuitive tool to view
and adjust coverage with a drag-
cost job assignment result for a schedule period.
and-drop interface.
■ Shift Trading – employees can collaborate within the system to agree to
trading shifts and submit the trades for supervisor approval.
■ Equalization Manager – evaluate overtime worked, offered and refused and
create a ranked list of who can or should be offered overtime.
Cross-Functional Benefits
SumTotal provides an end-to-end, complete strategic Human Capital Management
solution integrating workforce management, talent management, learning
management, HR management and payroll and benefits management.
■ Workforce Management: Integrated across the SumTotal strategic HCM
solution SumTotal Workforce Management provides powerful tools to About SumTotal // SumTotal Systems, Inc.
effectively manage labor rules, ensure compliance, and control labor costs is the global leader of strategic Human Capital
Management (HCM) solutions that provide
and expenses
organizations with a new level of visibility to
■ Talent Management: Integrated within the SumTotal’s strategic HCM solution, help make more informed business decisions
Talent Management provides a single view of your organizations a unified and accelerate growth. Recognized by industry
view of your organizations talent processes across all parts of strategic HCM analysts as the most complete solution,
SumTotal provides full employee lifecycle
■ Learning Management: Integrated into the learning management solution, management, including a core system of
SumTotal can provide visibility into skills, certifications, and learning record, from a single provider for improved
activities across talent and workforce management, as well as other parts business intelligence. The company offers
customers of all sizes and industries the most
of the strategic HCM process
flexibility and choice with multiple purchase,
■ HR Management (HRMS): Integrated within the SumTotal’s strategic HCM configuration, and deployment options. We
solution, SumTotal’s HR Management solution provides a single source of have increased the performance of the
world’s largest organizations including Sony
truth for all HCM processes
Electronics (NYSE: SNE), AstraZeneca
■ Payroll & Benefits: As an integrated service into the SumTotal’s strategic (NYSE: AZN [ADR]; London: AZN), Amway
HCM solution, Payroll and Benefits Management provide efficient, flexible (KUL:AMWAY), Seagate (NYSE: STX),
and easy–to-use service at the foundation of your HCM solution For more information, or to request a demo,
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