Informational Articles

• Skills Inventory Management - Tugboat's skills inventory management software provides powerful tools for building labor standards, planning and tracking training, refresher training, cross training and tracking job currency ... more.
• Absentee Management - Reducing Absenteeism in the Workplace - Tugboat's absentee management software streamlines HR services and reduces excessive absenteeism by automating the administration of absentee management ... more.
• Rotating Shift Work Schedules - Companies in a range of industries that operate for extended hours use combinations of multiple shifts and on-off work patterns to crew their operations in an optimal manner ... more.
• Vacation Scheduling Software - Tugboat Software's vacation scheduling software automates the complex and time-consuming functions of managing, awarding and tracking employee vacations in large enterprises ... more.
• Manufacturing Labor Waste - Installing Tugboat's workforce scheduling solution in many ways is the easy part of any labor scheduling initiative. Eliminating manufacturing labor waste is the bigger challenge. But it won't happen without a fully automated and tightly integrated workforce scheduling solution... more.
• Labor Waste - Tugboat Software's workforce scheduling solution enables a system for eliminating labor waste. Implementing a solution that can be "rolled out" across an enterprise or division faces many obstacles ... more.
• Labor Cost Control - an Enterprise Strategy - As an enterprise-wide strategy, automating workforce scheduling is just beginning to emerge as part of the solution for labor cost control. Rather than merely streamlining the scheduling process, a labor scheduling initiative needs a more strategic goal. It should focus on eliminating labor waste and establishing labor cost control... more.
• Labor Scheduling Software - Tugboat's labor scheduling software can help you achieve the lowest direct cost of labor and represents a major redirection of the application of computer automation to the manufacturing workforce... more.
• Employee Scheduling Software - SOS, Schedule Optimizing Software -- now available in two products; SOSClassic and SOS2GO... more.
• Employee Schedule Building Software - Complex business rules and dynamic staffing requirements create conditions that are daunting for employee scheduling... more.
• Optimize Your Labor Resources - Labor Schedule Optimizing Software Benefits... more.
• Automatic Labor Scheduling - Demand for improved performance in manufacturing requires that employee scheduling is also aligned with goals for greater efficiency... more.
• Change Management Software - Change management is the process of requesting, planning, implementing and evaluating changes to a software application... more.
• Configuration Management - Roundtable's configuration management system identifies and defines software development objects, controls changes to software objects at each stage... more.
• Configuration Database Management - The discipline to manage the entire life cycle of a software project is essential to having a complete configuration management process in place... more.
• Employee Shift Scheduling Software - Today's manufacturing managers, under increased pressure to achieve higher plant utilization, are employing innovative methods... more.
• Need for Employees Work Schedule - When manufacturing and service managers confront changing demand, reallocating their labor resources on short notice brings special challenges... more.
• Need for Overtime Management Software - Usually one of the largest single costs-of-operation, payroll often includes overtime as a significant component... more.
• Software Configuration Management - What are the business requirements for your software configuration management process... more.
• Software Development Management - Companies and departments engaged in software development realize the critical importance of Software development... more.
• Work Scheduling Software - In manufacturing facilities, workforce scheduling and workforce scheduling software are usually treated as a necessary cost... more.