Tugboat's employee scheduling and attendance software, SOS, enables you to organize an unlimited number of jobs and employees working on or in:

• Multiple Shifts at 8, 10 or 12 hours or combinations
• Rotating shifts
• Split shifts
• Shifts with multiple jobs for the same employee
• Multiple Lines, crews, departments or teams
• Jobs with variable starting times or time-specific start and duration

Employee Scheduling Program - Generating Schedules

Modeled on how schedulers typically receive data using production plans, product lists, or service plans, SOS (Schedule Optimizing Software) provides a familiar frame of reference. Tugboat's employee scheduling and attendance software, SOS, enables you to organize an unlimited number of jobs and employees in:

• Shifts, including rotating and split shifts.
• Lines
• Crews
• Departments
• Jobs with variable starting times.

Tugboat's Absentee Scheduling and Tracking through Employee Scheduling Software

Absentee Scheduling and Tracking feature of Tugboat's software for employee scheduling enables you to schedule absentees and record the history of absentee events for each employee in your organization. Both the employee's past history and projected absences are displayed and managed through the employee scheduling software. Since you need to know who is planning to be absent in order to create an accurate and reliable schedule, Absentee Scheduling and Tracking provides critical data to the workforce scheduling engine.

Step Letters - Employee Scheduling

The Step Letters module of Tugboat's employee scheduling software solution assists your Human Resources department by automating the task of tracking and managing unexcused absences. Based on data in the Absentee module, employee scheduling software automatically alerts employees to excessive absenteeism by generating "Step Letters," where a Step Letter is a written disciplinary warning. Steps and Step Letters are defined by your management policies and the step letters are issued to an employee in response to their history of unexcused absences. This employee schedule software module extends the management capability of SOS beyond workforce scheduling by automating this time-consuming function.

Vacation Scheduling

Vacation Scheduling module of Tugboat's software for employee scheduling enables you to calculate, award, and schedule vacations for all employees in your organization. Employee scheduling software extends the management capability of SOS beyond workforce scheduling by automating the complex and time-consuming function of awarding and tracking employee vacations and utilization. Employee scheduling and attendance software automatically calculates vacation entitlements according to your eligibility and longevity policies. It tracks, awards, and manages requests for vacation days and weeks. Employee Schedule Software also automates vacation trading where workers request to be assigned to jobs that open due to others being absent on vacation. It displays the vacation history for each employee along with their unutilized vacation time. Since you must know who is going to be on vacation in order to create an accurate and reliable schedule, the Vacation Module of the employee scheduling software provides critical data to the workforce scheduling engine.

Training Scheduling and Special Assignments

Training Scheduling enables you to schedule training events for all the employees in your organization through the employee schedule software. This is ideal in production operations where employees are trained on the job while working beside a fellow employee who already has the desired skill. This employee schedule software module assists you in meeting the training requirements of your workforce by building a queue of those needing training. Training candidates are then automatically assigned to future production schedules.

The Special Assignment function enables you to assign employees to specific jobs. It overrules the scheduling engine which would otherwise automatically assign the employee to a job.

Employee self-service Kiosk

The Employee Self-Service Kiosk addresses the need for employees to interface with the scheduling office on a variety of matters. Available to your entire workforce during all shifts, the Kiosk extends the communication of both the scheduling office and for human resources functions such as vacation planning, time off requests, and overtime allocation. Employee scheduling software greatly reduces the workload of the HR staff and enables your employees to log requests for:

• Time off
• Vacations
• Personal days
• FMLA
• Overtime
• Job and shift preferences.
• Training
• And more.

Automated Overtime

Automated Overtime provides a fully automatic function for assigning workers to overtime. The automated overtime module of the employee scheduling software significantly reduces the workload for supervisors and managers who are responsible for filling the need for overtime while balancing requests from their employees. Both full and split-shift assignments can be automated. Like SOS's basic labor scheduling engine, overtime assignments are made strictly according to your work rules. This automated overtime scheduling software module is closely linked to the Employee Self-Service Kiosk, where employees are able to volunteer for available overtime assignments.

• Automates both volunteer and forced overtime.
• Handles overtime increments of four, eight, or twelve hours.
• Supports overtime blocks which equalize the impact of overtime on those drafted.
• Using the Kiosk, employees sign up based on shift and date.
• Supervisors are able to make individual assignments and adjustments as needed.

Web Client and WebSpeed Reports

The Web Client enables you to deploy SOS anywhere over a wide area network (WAN). This module of the employee scheduling software gives you complete access to the scheduling and management functions of SOS (Schedule Optimizing Software) anywhere that you can use a web browser. The module addresses the needs of workforce scheduling managers to generate and review schedules from a remote office, from their residence, or while on the road. Management of overtime, absentees, vacation requests, or training assignments are fully available.

• The Web Client is hosted on a web server at your facility.

WebSeed Reports enable you to query and access all the reports available in SOS from any web browser. This module of the employee scheduling software addresses the needs of scheduling managers who are required to review schedules and related reports from a remote office, from their residence, or while on the road. Reports for overtime, absentees, vacation requests, or training assignments are also available.

• No requirement to download a client.