Automated Scheduling Software

10^30000 scheduling combinations. 50 hours per week in Excel. If you've lived inside traditional WFM tools, you know this headache. Assembled's new AI-powered Schedule Generation does it in minutes. Here's the breakdown: 1,000 agents. 5 shifts each. 8 hours per shift. That's 5,000 shifts to schedule. Each shift needs: One productive event (chat, email, or phone). Two breaks. One lunch. One meeting. Discretize 8 hours into 15-minute blocks and you get 32 options. For non-productive events alone: 32 × 31 × 30 × 29 / 2 = 431,520 combinations per shift. Multiply by 3 productive event options. 1,294,560 combinations per shift. Now do that for 5,000 shifts. (10^6)^5000 = 10^30000. That's a number with 30,000 digits. At 2,000 digits per page, it takes 15 pages just to write it out. The “nurse scheduling” problem is a classic NP-hard problem. This is what workforce managers are solving with spreadsheets. Assembled's AI-powered Schedule Generation feature handles this in minutes. Agent needs Thursday off for a doctor's appointment? Old way: Submit request. Wait for approval. Hope it doesn't conflict. Assembled's way: Integer linear programming for coverage optimization. Constraint programming for breaks, lunches, and labor law compliance. Decomposition to break 34,000 weekly shifts into 50 parallel subproblems. 2 hours becomes 10 minutes. Agents can also browse available swaps directly in the system. AI ensures swaps follow your rules: Matching skills Queue compatibility Channel requirements. Our schedule Layers prevent coverage gaps entirely. It has three intelligent layers: Productive work Meetings/breaks Time off. When a training cancels, productive work surfaces automatically underneath. One global payments company told us: "This replaces our hideous spreadsheet where we export schedules just to flag compliance issues. Programming rules directly in is chef's kiss." AI handles 10^30000 combinations. Managers can now handle strategy. Kudos to the team on this big, NP-hard launch. Antony Phillips, Claire D., Jack Gleeson, Malfy Das, Nicole Pan, Zach Clark, Chancie(Qianshi) Zheng, Charlie Rotholtz, David Patou, Devon Berger, Todd Bergman, Dan Hertz

Every conference, I build a booth shift schedule. It’s one of those tasks that sounds simple - but quickly turns into calendar conflicts, last-minute swaps, and endless back-and-forth. So I automated it. I built a conference booth scheduling agent that pulls from reps’ Google Calendars (via WRITER's Google Calendar connector), accounts for travel, availability, and conflicting meetings, and outputs a ready-to-use booth schedule. Instead of manual coordination, I now just fill out a short playbook: 📌 Event name & time zone 📌 Conference expo hours 📌 Booth staff names & emails 📌 Scheduling constraints & preferences From there, the agent generates: 📌 A booth staffing grid I can drop straight into our Know Before You Go guide 📌 A confirmation message ready to paste into Slack 📌 A complete booth staffing schedule After running the playbook, all deliverables live in the agent’s deliverables tab. What was once reactive, manual, and chaotic is now structured and repeatable.  This results in fewer gaps, less back-and-forth, and a more seamless on-site experience!

Most waited feature: SAP brings shift scheduling home — no integration, no sync, no guesswork. The latest SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Scheduling capability marks a major milestone in time management transformation. For the first time, HR leaders can: 1) Create weekly and monthly shift plans within SuccessFactors 2) Align staffing with real-time production demand 3) Auto-match employees based on skills, certifications, and availability 4) Sync shifts seamlessly with Time Tracking and Payroll No more juggling third-party tools. No more data sync delays. Also roadmap defined, SAP announced upcoming extensions: 1) Smart Shift Proposals: AI-generated schedules (based on demand, skills, holidays). 2) Joule Integration: Conversational “Create next week’s schedule for Plant 01” capability. 3) Integration to Payroll Costs in Business Data Cloud. Everything — from demand to shift to pay — now flows within one intelligent platform. It’s efficient, compliant, and AI-ready. This is how HR and Operations finally converge under a single source of truth: SAP SuccessFactors. #SAP #SuccessFactors #WorkforceScheduling #AIinHR #SAPTimeTracking #DigitalHR #ShiftPlanning #HXM #RetailWorkforce #ManufacturingWorkforce #LogisticsWorkforce #healthcareWorkforce

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗶𝘁 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗢𝗻𝗰𝗲? Orlando Health thought their infusion clinics were running at full capacity. Turns out, they were just poorly scheduled. After implementing Epic’s infusion scheduling template generator, everything changed. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 → Patients waited up to a week for an appointment → Nurses overwhelmed during midday peaks → 6-minute average scheduling calls → High turnover, overbooked chairs 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 → 32% drop in patient wait times → 50% increase in nurse satisfaction → 200 monthly care hours recovered → Appointments offered within 24 hours The difference? Smarter scheduling built around actual staffing, capacity, and patient needs not guesswork. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝗱? → Used Epic’s system to auto-build templates based on data → Shifted scheduling conversations to system-recommended slots → Consolidated appointment info onto one screen → Automatically rebalanced unclaimed appointments overnight 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁? This wasn’t about more chairs or overtime. It was about reducing chaos through system logic and giving nurses and patients a better experience. 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗧𝗔𝗞𝗘? → Is your clinic really full or just misaligned? → Would automated scheduling free up care hours in your workflow? → Could smarter workflows reduce nurse turnover without increasing cost? #EpicSystems #DigitalHealth #InfusionCare #PatientExperience #ClinicalWorkflows #NurseRetention #SmartScheduling #OrlandoHealth #HealthTech #OncologyCare #EpicShare #TechlingHealthcare

How to set up Claude's Scheduled Agent (step by step): Claude can now run tasks for you automatically. Checking your email, writing reports, sending reminders, all on a schedule you choose. Here's exactly how to set it up. (This is a paid feature. You need Claude Pro, Team, or Enterprise.) Step 1: Install "Claude in Chrome" Go to the Chrome Web Store and search "Claude in Chrome." Click Add to Chrome. This browser extension is what lets Claude browse the web and use online tools on your behalf. Without it, Claude can't interact with sites like Gmail, Google Docs, etc. Step 2: Connect it to the Claude app Open the Claude desktop app. Go to Settings → Connectors. Find "Claude in Chrome" in the list and turn it on. Once it shows as connected, the Claude app and your Chrome browser can now work together. Step 3: Switch to Cowork mode Inside the Claude app, switch to Cowork. This is the mode where Claude acts as your agent. Start a new conversation. This is where you'll build your scheduled task. Step 4: Tell Claude what you want Just describe your task in plain language. For example: "Check my Gmail every weekday at 8am and summarize what's important." "Every Friday at 5pm, remind me to review my weekly goals." "Every Monday morning, pull my calendar and write a plan for the week." Claude will understand what you need and build the full scheduled task for you. Step 5: What Claude sets up (the 6 fields) Behind the scenes, Claude fills in 6 fields based on your conversation. You don't have to do this manually, but here's what each one means: → Title: A short name for your task, like "daily email summary." This is how you'll find and manage it later. → Description: A one-line explanation of what the task does. Example: "Summarize important unread emails every weekday morning." → Instruction: The full detailed prompt Claude follows every time the task runs. This includes exact steps, which tools to use, and what the output should look like. Think of it as the recipe. Claude writes this from your conversation so a future session can run it perfectly. → Time: When and how often it runs. Recurring repeats on a schedule (e.g. "weekdays at 8am"). One-time runs once (e.g. "tomorrow at 3pm"). On-demand means no schedule, you trigger it manually. → Model: Which Claude runs the task. Opus is the most powerful, best for complex analysis or writing. Sonnet is balanced, great for most everyday tasks. Haiku is the fastest, ideal for quick simple tasks. Claude picks the best fit if you don't specify. → Folder: Where Claude saves any files it creates (reports, docs, summaries). If you've connected a workspace folder, outputs go there so you can find them on your computer. That's it. 5 steps and you're done. Your scheduled agent is now working for you on autopilot.