file extension S85

Sabre StaffPlan

Accurately forecasts and plans airport staffing levels

W H AT YO U M AY B E FAC I N G TO DAY
Analyzing flight schedules and planning staff levels to support airport handling requirements
is typically a manual, labor-intensive process that requires painstaking analysis of work rules,
staffing requirements and flight schedule information.

H O W W E C A N H E L P YO U
The Sabre® StaffPlan™staff forecasting and planning system quickly and accurately determines
the level of airport personnel required for a given flight schedule. The system provides
sophisticated models that virtually replace manual processes and significantly reduce the
time and effort required for planning and budgeting airport staff. The system is also one of
our Sabre® eMergo™Web-enabled solutions, an application service provider (ASP) offering.

H O W O U R C U S T O M E R S H AV E B E N E F I T E D
Existing clients have experienced these improvements when using the StaffPlan system:
• Reduced staffing requirements up to 25% through improved shift schedules
• Improved staff utilization by up to 7% through increased cross-utilization
• Achieved up to 8% cost savings through contract re-negotiations with ground handlers

H O W YO U C A N B E N E F I T
The StaffPlan system makes it possible to achieve consistent airport staffing levels, helping
you identify and understand the staffing level variations required to support any given published
flight schedule. Prime system benefits include:
Solid record of improved efficiency
The StaffPlan system is currently used by more than 18 clients with 350 installations worldwide,
bringing benefits to a user community comprised of airlines, ground handling companies
and airport authorities.
Quick response to changes
“What-if” analysis capabilities provide a powerful tool to improve staff utilization by evaluating
the potential effect of operational changes before implementing new staffing strategies. The
tool enables analysts to determine the effects on staffing that result from:
• Making unlimited changes to flight schedule information
• Modifying workload and customer service standards
• Adding new flights without increasing the number of personnel
• Changing labor rules, such as legal shift sizes or break assignments
• Cross-utilizing staff from different workgroups
• Creating staff zones within a given airport terminal
Superior graphic displays
Graphical data displays, printed charts and summaries improve plan analysis.

F E AT U R E S
The StaffPlan system is equipped with numerous features to improve planning efficiency:
Manning chart view
The system presents a graphical, user-friendly Gantt chart display of a flight schedule, associated
staffing requirements, shifting requirements and shift lines for a one-day or weekly
period, enabling the results to be edited and printed for reporting. The system is packed with
other features such as zooming, filtering, displaying multiple views as well as all standard
Windows functionality.
Schedule and volume data view
With the help of a schedule and volume chart utility, planners can view and change all
details regarding the seasonal flight schedule, as well as planned load information.
Flight schedule builder
The flight schedule builder enables users to import information from the
Sabre®StaffManager™automated staff allocation system or manually
enter flight data. A flight schedule can be quickly created using a rapid-entry
template, incorporating spreadsheetstyle functionality and appearance to
reflect a dynamic contract-handling environment at various airport locations.
You can import the StaffManager system information to perform a comparison
of planned versus actual schedule data. This analysis can identify
overtime exposure and possible action for correction, as well as feedback for
the scheduling department.
Rule builder
The rule builder utility provides a powerful and effective means to integrate your specific
business processes into the application. This feature enables you to tailor workgroup names,
definitions and dependencies to suit your needs. It has a powerful Java engine to allow for
rules ranging from simple to those with highly imbedded, multilevel conditions. As your
business process or requirements change, this utility gives you the ability to modify and
implement those changes.
Requirements generator
This model enables planning analysts to automatically generate staffing requirements for
any combination of ground and passenger handling services. The rule builder provides you
with more options to define flight specific workload. Analysts can enter the following types
of parameters to satisfy corporate-wide or airport-specific workload standards, which can be
fixed based or load based:
• Passenger Service related: ticketing, check-in, boarding gate, flight manager/supervisor
standards
• Ramp Service related: cargo loading and unloading, drivers, and bagroom operations
• Other areas such as security, cabin cleaning, fueling, de-icing and line maintenance
Shift scheduler
Covering work requirements depends on the available shift types and other shifting constraints.
The Sabre research group has created a state-of-the-art mathematical model that
determines the optimal solution for staffing any airport environment. The analyst selects to
either minimize headcount or cost. The model then considers this parameter as the primary
objective and displays the resulting shifts on a line graph and staffing levels on a bar graph,
illustrating scheduled work versus planned staff. The results can be viewed, edited, printed
or exported to prepare a shift bid.
Travel and routing
To automate the process of assigning tasks to shifts, the travel and routing model creates a
user-friendly interface in the form of a Gantt chart. The model takes into account user-defined
constraints relating to travel times between tasks, meal periods and rest breaks. It also
enables analysts to validate the feasibility of shifts by constructing the routing of each shift,
ensuring no tasks remain unassigned.
Roster Maker
This module enables you to create rosters using patterns
longer than seven days, a feat that requires a fixed or rotating
roster. In a weekly mode, you can define various scheduling
parameters along with scheduling patterns (such as five
days on, two days off) for defined shift types, where
scheduling patterns are limited to seven days. Work rules outside
North America can require patterns that are longer than a
week, such as six days on, three days off.