Tugboat Software

About Tugboat Software

No two facilities are alike, even within the same corporation. Your rules of operation and policies are the foundation for Tugboat’s solutions. If your production or service operations are complex, Tugboat Software Inc. offers comprehensive solutions that focus on assigning your workforce to an optimized schedule, managing personal time off, and providing an advanced employee empowered EssP. Even for a staff of hundreds or thousands of employees, schedules for your entire workforce are generated fast, and. In the hands of each employee. Benefits of Tugboat include any large group of workers dealing with constantly changing demand for goods or services. Tugboat’s solutions assign every person to the right job at the right time with the push of a button. The power and speed of Tugboat’s Workforce Scheduling bundle comes from its schedule-generating engine. This engine combines linear regression technology with your data and your rules defining business policies specific to each facility.
Capabilities
Automatic—Automatically fills labor demand, standard, overtime, and block time.
Comprehensive—Supports unlimited number of jobs, employees, shifts, departments, lines, work areas.
Thorough—Schedules all job assignments, no need for manual input.
Rules-based—Applies your site-specific scheduling rules while automatically assigning the right employee to fill your labor demand.
End-to-end—Automates all aspects of crewing: management of skills, on-the-job training, job bidding, events, deadlines, absences, vacations, crew and shift patterns, employee preferences.
Staffing level planning—Plans labor requirements for immediate or long-term goals.
Responsive—Enables last-minute response to production changes with multiple tools.
Optimized—Mathematically optimizes employee assignments, with focus on labor cost control, all within the bounds and constraints of your existing labor rules and policies.
Self-service—Enables employees with internet access to schedule requests, log preferences, and more.
Permanent record—Creates a permanent record of decision-history
Benefits
Converts production scheduling into labor standards.
Faithfully enforces your rules and policies.
Consistently applies employee skills, training, availability, and preferences.
Reduces workload for management in operations, production and on the front line.
Improves communication and employee satisfaction.
Drives down operating costs.
The entire process of scheduling and managing your employee vacations and personal time off (PTO) is run by Tugboat’s Vacation Scheduling solution. Employees get the vacation they have earned while your company provides services or fulfills production demand without under-staffing.
Increments from weeks, to days, even hours for vacation are easily managed. Tugboat’s customers, some with over 1000 employees, use Tugboat’s solution daily with complete reliability. Tugboat’s solution is tightly integrated with Instant Grant™ which provides an immediate response for requests.
Over a certain number of absences, business objectives will not be met. Tugboat protects your operation with the use of dynamic quotas.

Quotas define a group of employees whose positions share a function. For example, quotas are typically defined for each shift, department, job, etc. Groups may cross these simple designations, so, company defined groups are enabled. And, the quotas are revised dynamically with any change that effects coverage.

Tugboat processes every employee request against multiple quotas. When an employee requests an absence, approval is withheld unless the employee passes testing on all the quotas to which they may be a member.
Vacations and employee absences, including FMLA and disability, managed start to end.
One-button exchange with payroll data
Carry-over from previous periods
Requests processed by management direct assignment, in calendared automatic rounds, by a batch process for groups or by on-demand basis using Tugboat’s EssP.