Air France advance
Rostima, a specialist in the development and supply of Enterprise Workforce Management solutions, has announced that Air France Services Limited (AFSL) has chosen Rostima software to optimise management of its staff.

AFSL is based at Heathrow airport and currently provides ground handling services to 12 airline companies, including its parent company Air France. Its services and operations range from ticket sales, passenger check-in and baggage handling to loading aircraft and monitoring aircraft weight and balance.

The agreement is for the implementation of Rostima's Scheduler, DutyPlanner, and DutyManager tools to manage the varied and complicated work patterns of AFSL's 350 members of staff and to provide improved workforce planning and scheduling efficiencies.

"We evaluated a number of solutions and suppliers and ultimately selected Rostima," said John Billett, Finance Manager, AFSL. "The Rostima team is highly professional, the results of the product trial we had were very good and the pricing was competitive. We believe Rostima will provide us with improved workforce efficiency and productivity and as a result, labour savings and cost-savings."

Kim Berknov, Rostima's CEO, commented: "This agreement further demonstrates Rostima's unique position within the overall transportation market of the UK and Europe. With customers such as AFSL, ASIG, Securicor and Luton airport, Rostima Workforce Management solutions are fast becoming the industry standard for aviation, ground transportation and associated services companies seeking to optimise workforce efficiency."

Rostima's DutyPlanner module is a forecasting and workload modelling tool that matches staffing to customer demand. It ensures that the right number of resources are scheduled and that business peaks and troughs in customer demand are covered. This is a highly graphical module that allows service parameters to be varied to quickly analyse the resourcing implications of new event schedules.

Rostima Scheduler produces optimal schedules, which match workload to staff resources while taking into account employee preference and availability. Rostima's DutyManager module provides costing of scheduled activities, very fast what-if capability to match schedules to new scenarios, tracking of planned and actual employee assignments, and measurement of employee utilisation against budget and strategy.