The scheduling of staff is always subject to rules and regulations from stakeholders such as unions
and governments. The task of producing schedules that comply with all relevant rules and regulations
is often complex; non-compliance has serious consequences for the enterprise, including legal liability
and union actions. As a consequence, organizations spend significant resources on mechanisms that ensure
the regulatory compliance of staff schedules, including internal proofing, internal auditing, and external
consultants.
OWM’s optimization technology is able to handle even the most complex rules and regulations
of workforce deployment. OWM’s users achieve compliance by configuring the scheduling
tools so that every produced schedule automatically complies with all rules and regulations.
Manual ad-hoc changes to the schedules are automatically checked by the scheduling tools,
and non-compliance is highlighted to the users. This approach reduces the company’s
efforts to ensure regulatory compliance to a small fraction of the effort required for traditional
means.
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