Task Scheduling for Optimal Resource Utilization

Quintiq Task Scheduling enables you to create robust daily and weekly work plans that optimally distribute jobs over the available employees, taking into account all the fixed and variable factors. Part of an integrated, comprehensive employee scheduling solution, the Quintiq software handles the complex balancing of requirements and constraints with available human and equipment resources and customer and employee preferences. Your planners are free to focus on generating task schedules that meet business goals, instead of juggling all the small, but vital scheduling details.

With Quintiq, all the factors that need to be considered in every task scheduling decision are taken into account: employee certification and skill sets, legislation and labor regulations, labor contract agreements, employee preferences, customer preferences, equipment availability, and more. Your planners will be able to easily see how they can best support business goals. They can create task schedules that raise employee productivity by minimizing idle time and travel time; vary task assignments to satisfy employee satisfaction and maintain employees’ skills; balance staffing costs and service goals by scheduling the minimum staff needed to satisfy customer expectations; or that combine any of these and other goals.

Create robust task schedules

The software automatically suggests optimized task schedules that include just enough buffer to accommodate timetable overruns, employee illness, emergency tasks, and other unpredictable disturbances, ensuring cost effective and robust schedules that will stand up to daily reality. Real-time visibility into the status of all task assignments and into the impact of disturbances across all aspects of the daily schedule enable your planners to quickly and effectively re-assign employees to ensure minimum impact on service and production, at minimum cost.

Learn how to optimize task scheduling with the Quintiq Employee Scheduling brochure.

Quintiq Task Scheduling key advantages & benefits

• Real-time visibility into disturbances and their impact across the schedule allows fast, effective re-scheduling of tasks
• Match skills of employees to materials and individual tasks
• Minimize unproductive time and waiting time by using smart route analysis
• Preferable sequence of most economic task solutions within all parameters
• Multi-user, real-time environment prevents double assignments and overbooking