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The Staff Management for LS Central module suits the retail and the hospitality market segments. Staff members are assigned to roles and shifts according to skill level and who is available for the job. Salary cost is calculated at planning and compared to either finance budgets or role budgets. Roster planning is supported, with the ability to automatically schedule shifts according to fixed shifts or shift patterns, and the estimated cost is compared to budgets and actual figures as they come. The system can provide managers with resource adjustment suggestions based on logic, which can fetch information from any data stored within the solution, or from external sources. For example, a weather forecast integration is provided as standard option in the solution and can affect the resource needs based on the forecast results.
The module also covers time registration, using either designated clock terminals, or at the point of sale. Time registration is automatically compared to roster assignments, and only passed on to managers for inspection when not according to the schedule.
The time entries are converted to salary hours and cost according to a very flexible conversion mechanism, which can also provide warnings according to defined comparison values, for example if overtime is passing a certain limit or sick days are exceeding the monthly allowance.
For employee-facing functionality, Staff Management includes an employee portal, where employees can view their shift assignments, receive shift requests, request shifts and vacation, and look at their planned or worked hours in various ways. The employee portal can run on a smart device, mobile phone, using the standard mobile client.
On the analysis front, managers can view planned or actual figures (both hours and amounts) based on days, weeks, months, and location comparison, along with sales results and cost of goods sold from the LS Retail POS, and cost figures from the General Ledger. The final estimated profit/loss figures are one click away at the end of the day.
Finally, the hours can be exported to any salary solution, both within the Business Central environment or externally for processing the final pay slip results.
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