Scheduling - Do you make calendars for staff?

[NateS (Nate Schoonover)]

Hi all!
I am trying to wrap my head around all the various ways we can setup calendars. Do I need to make a calendar for each person, and enter their requested time off individually? This seems like the only way to get a good time estimate for jobs.

I am curious what you all do. Do you add days off for your shop workers so that you can tell when a job won’t get done because no one is there to work on it?

Thanks for your time!
Nate

[mbilodeau (Mathieu Bilodeau)]

Well, it depends on the level of precision you are dealing with. Are your time estimates on each operation within ±5% of the real labor time ? Or, more like ± 150% ? Are your operations highly standardized ?

In the end, it may not even matter if you setup the calendar of every employee because the uncertainity of the inputs of the schedule may be too high.

Here is a thread that revolved around the same question :

Scheduling Blocks/Crew Size & Resources

We are currently trying to get our schedule over into Epicor. The issue I am running into at the moment is how am I to schedule multiple employees (welders and assemblers) to an operation. Should I be using multiple scheduling blocks or should we have a larger crew size? The other issues is that based on Time Off (out sick, PTO, etc.) I could have 2 employees on an operation one day and then 3 the next. Maybe even go down to one. I am not sure how to have our schedule reflect these changes. Shou…

[NateS (Nate Schoonover)]

Thank you! I will be digging into this today. I appreciate your time!