Effective rosters are so much more than just a schedule for employees to follow. An efficient roster keeps operations running seamlessly, helps meet fluctuating demand, and keeps labour costs well under control.

Creating a roster can be an incredibly time-consuming task for managers, particularly when taking into account factors such as sales forecasts, the predicted number of customers, and the need to strike the right balance between minimising wage costs, while ensuring adequate staffing levels to meet demand.

Roubler’s sophisticated rostering system provides managers with powerful tools to build rosters while reducing compliance-related risks and helping eliminate budget blow-outs.

Here are five quick and easy rostering tools in Roubler that you might not know about.

1. Roster in line with forecast sales

What if you could automatically roster the right number of people on, in line with your hourly sales forecast? By synchronising data from your point of sale system, then using our latest demand-based rostering feature, Roubler’s seamless rostering feature allows you to do just this. In a few simple steps, you can create data-driven rosters that ensure minimum staffing requirements are always met, while optimising labour costs and minimising admin time.

2. Automatically create rosters for events

When it comes to events, there’s no point wasting time manually building a roster if you already have an idea of attendance rates. Instead, why not take advantage of Roubler’s demand-based rostering to automatically create the required number of shifts and ensure optimal staffing levels? This feature will populate a template with blank shifts, then assign employees at the click of a button via the smart roster feature.

3. Base rosters on employees’ standard hours

When it comes to scheduling staff who work a set of standard hours each pay cycle, you need a solution that allows managers to create and publish a schedule within just a few clicks. Roubler allows you to predefine standard working hours for each employee, then auto-populate a roster accordingly, saving time and making the rostering process more efficient.

4. Create reusable templates

Creating every single shift and assigning them to every single employee, week after week, is laborious and inefficient. With Roubler’s rostering feature, you can create and use templates that can be re-used time and time again. You could create a template for a seven-day weekly basis – using this as the standard building block for your rosters in the future. Existing rosters can even be saved as a template, making the entire process fast and efficient.

5. Add best-fit employees

If you’ve ever created a roster from scratch, you understand how challenging it is to stay on top of all the elements that make up an efficient roster – employee availability, hour-by-hour demand, wage costs, employee positions and employment types – to name a few.

Shift rostering is made easy with Roubler’s smart roster feature analysing data inputs, taking into account built-in rulesets to generate a comprehensive forecast of exactly who needs to be rostered on, and when.

If you are an existing customer and would like to know more about our latest demand rostering feature, please contact your account manager if you would like additional training. If you are not currently a Roubler customer and would like to find out more, then please contact our team today!