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FRONT END SCHEDULING

The time spent every week maintaining cashier, bagger, and other department schedules leaves fewer hours for managers to serve customers. Droste’s Front-End Scheduling module is a highly flexible program that can significantly reduce scheduling time – placing your managers back on the floor with your customers.

Accuracy and Speed

Droste’s Front-End Scheduling module eliminates the need for managers to spend extensive hours developing complex schedules. It maintains availability, time off, holiday, and sales projection books on-line. The system uses the on-line books and your average item price to calculate total budgeted hours for the week. Total budgeted hours are matched up with your shopping pattern profiles to determine hours needed per day, per hour, and per department – even on holidays. Once complete, the system builds the weekly store schedule for cashiers, baggers, and departments. As part of this process, Droste’s Front- End Scheduling module determines how many cashiers are required for each hour in every day and accounts for those projections when building the schedule. 

Compliance

Labor laws add a level of complexity to scheduling. Droste’s Front-End Scheduling module manages these labor law requirements. During restricted business hours, the system will not allow managers to inadvertently over-schedule or incorrectly schedule minors. Conversely, during holidays, the system accounts for holiday exceptions to labor laws, making the scheduling process simple any time of the year.

Flexibility

With enhanced flexibility features, managers retain complete control of their schedules. Front-End Scheduling:

• Graphically depicts schedule variances as data is entered. 

• Instantly see how one change would affect an entire schedule.

• Offers the ability to assign cashiers to specific registers by day and by hour.

• Accepts 1/4 hour timing increments.

• Handles lunch and break calculations and assigns coverage.

• Calculates fixed activities into schedules.

• Permits split-department scheduling, providing a total-store solution for managers.

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Droste’s management reporting tools put you in control:

• Weekly Store Schedule

• Daily Store Set-up

• Employee Availability and Time Off

THE DROSTE DISTINCTION:

• Complete, on-line tracking of scheduling by day, hour, employee and week-to-date. 

• Weekly store schedule prints on one page and is simple for staff and floor managers to follow. 

• Graphical user-interface is color-coded for ease of use.