Manage Workforce Schedules for Your Work Center

Production supervisors can leverage Oracle Workforce Scheduling, which is a part of Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM), to view and manage the schedules and availability of operators assigned to their work centers. Supervisors can use this information to assign operators to workstations for work execution.

The following setup and implementation steps should have already been performed before production supervisors can use Workforce Scheduling to publish workloads and view published schedules:

• Set Up Workforce Structures in Oracle HCM
• Set Up Workforce Scheduling in Oracle HCM
• Map Schedule Generation Profiles to SCM Calendars
• Enable the Plant Parameter to Start Using Workforce Scheduling

See Use Workforce Scheduling to Manage Shifts and Operator Assignments in the Implementation Guide for more setup details.

You can also refer to the Implementing Global Human Resources guide for details on Workforce Structures and Workforce Scheduling.

Publish Production Workloads to HCM Workforce Scheduling

Navigate to Tools > Scheduled Processes and click Schedule New Process. Select Publish Production Workloads to HCM Workforce Scheduling job and click OK. Select the manufacturing Organization for which you are running the process. The End Date determines the date till which the workloads will be sent.

After the workloads are published, schedules can be created for the manufacturing organization. The Schedulers in Workforce Scheduling periodically generate the schedules for the departments based on the published workloads. The schedules contain the shifts and assignments for the work centers mapped to the departments.

Use Workforce Scheduling for Operator Assignments

As a production supervisor, you can view and edit the published schedules for your work center.

1. Click the Production Supervision action from the Work Execution work area of your organization.
2. In the Work Center Monitoring tab, select your work center.
3. Click Manage Workforce Schedule to view the published schedules for the work center.
4. From the Action menu for a schedule, select Edit to view and edit the schedule details.

   You can make ad hoc changes to the shift assignments in the schedule, such as assigning or unassigning a worker per latest updates on their availability.

   When managing operator assignments for a workstation, available workers or persons are directly available for assignment. To manage operator assignments for a workstation:

   On the Work Center Monitoring tab, click a workstation card to see the workstation details. The All Shift Assignments link takes you to assignments for the current shift. To manage operator assignments for any shift, click Manage Operator Assignments.

Note: If a worker who is not on the schedule tries to check in to a workstation in the work center, then the check in fails with a message conveying that the worker must be scheduled to check in.