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New Workforce Scheduling App Supports Talent Management
In a move that further strengthens its larger workforce management suite, Oracle has expanded its Workforce Scheduling application with new capabilities for cross-location and departmental scheduling. In addition, Oracle Workforce Scheduling 5.0.3 also integrates with Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher for producing custom reports using scheduling data.
The new tools go beyond scheduling to complement enterprise talent-management strategies by helping to identify where an organization's staffing and skill levels may be falling short.
"Because the program's graphs show how many people are needed to do forecast work each quarter-hour of the day, managers can clearly see where they may be falling short," says Derek Morgan, an Oracle principal product strategy manager. "This information can augment the longer-term views that determine whether or not they have the right people and skills in place."
Management Help
The latest release, targeted particularly for retail and similar industries, especially helps organizations better manage hourly workforces in businesses with flexible and varying workloads.
For example, new cross-location scheduling eases the management challenges when one division loans staff to a nearby facility to accommodate shortages or spikes in business. The impact of the temporary allocation automatically appears on the availability lists of each affected division to guard against conflicts.
New departmental scheduling makes it easier for departments to share workers by better matching staffing loads to demand forecasts and by using algorithms that automatically create schedules based on employee availabilities and skills.
In addition, the new integration with Oracle's BI Publisher enables companies to create sophisticated reports and key performance indicator (KPI) summaries that combine workforce data with information from other parts of the business, Morgan explains. "This capability let's managers see analytical data in ways that speak directly to how they do their jobs," he adds.
Morgan also says that these additions are part of ongoing enhancements to Oracle Workforce Scheduling, which will include integration with Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.1 when it's released in 2009.
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