Runcutting and Rostering
Runcutting and rostering are where service plans become real-world operator work packages. These steps have a direct impact on cost control, operational stability, and operator satisfaction.
Using HASTUS tools like CrewOpt and Duty Optimize, this workshop empowers your scheduling team to master both manual and automated techniques while balancing cost, quality of life, and compliance with union rules.
- Build runcutting and rostering scenarios that fit workforce capacity
- Maximize operator quality of life through smart duty design
- Adjust rules and parameters to support labor negotiations
- Justify runcut outcomes using service curves from blocking
- Balance cost, compliance, and working conditions in every scenario
- Scheduling professionals
- Management-level stakeholders involved in scheduling policies and operator work rules.
- Runcutting logic: Service curve analysis, spreads, breaks, paid vs. unpaid time
- Building duties using CrewOpt (Build, Improve, Optimize modes)
- Setting and adjusting rules, penalties, and parameters
- Evaluating paid hours, headcount, and key cost components
- Trade-off analysis: cost vs. operator work-life conditions
- Building rosters with Apply Days Off and Roster-Optimize
Contact us to organize a private group session for your organization.