LP-ShiftPlanner : short-term nominative scheduling  

LP-ShiftPlanner creates short-term nominative schedules. This involves assigning workdays (shifts) - each with its individual attributes - to employees who themselves have their own specific needs.
LP-ShiftPlanner's principal objective is to cover a maximum number of shifts while meeting the corporate's staffing constraints. Along with providing this short-term schedule, the tool can help human resources planners to pursue longer-term objectives such as adjusting work time (i.e. avoid deviations from working hours, either more or less hours), fair allocation of shifts among employees, or satisfying individual staff preferences. LP-ShiftPlanner offers several combinations of these optimisation criteria, so that corporate and economic criteria can be prioritised.

Input data

Employees, their constraints, and their preferences
Each employee has:

• a contract defining the employee's working hours and conditions (number of hours per week, length of rest breaks, number of consecutive work days, etc.)
• a set of indicators showing the employee's position in terms of hours worked, number of rest days, and satisfaction of their preferences

An employee may have specific constraints concerning work hours, or there may be incompatibilities with certain workday attributes. These constraints can be defined either for the entire optimisation period or day-by-day.
LP-ShiftPlanner can also take into account employees' preferences concerning hours or workday attributes. Where employee satisfaction is the top priority, human resources planners can run a scenario that prioritises their preferences.

Workdays and their attributes
A description of workdays must be entered into the application, i.e. start and end times, length of workday, and attributes concerning employee constraints or preferences.

Results

LP-ShiftPlanner generates an optimised schedule for each employee for the period analysed (scheduling of workdays and rest time), updated employee counters (hours completed, preference satisfaction, etc.), and a results summary in order to help evaluate the proposed solution.

Example of a successful project

RTM - bus and metro system in Marseilles - optimise driver scheduling.