📦 Product/Commerce ⚙️ Operations & Admin

Scheduling & Resource Allocation

Schedulers juggling jobs; crews; equipment in their heads or spreadsheets. Changes cause ripple effects that take hours to work through.

In Product/Commerce

Who uses it

Warehouse and fulfilment managers

Typical documents & data

Shifts, picking schedules, delivery windows, seasonal rosters

Implementation Tiers

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Quick Win

Immediate

Use AI as a thinking partner for scheduling decisions. Describe your constraints and resources; get suggested allocations. Focus on judgement calls not arithmetic.

Tools: AI assistant with detailed prompting

Expected Result: Faster scheduling decisions. Obvious conflicts caught before they cause problems.

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Proper Project

6-10 weeks

Software that knows your jobs; people; equipment; and constraints. Suggests optimal schedules. Handles changes gracefully — recalculates impacts automatically.

Tools: Scheduling software (e.g. Deputy or industry-specific tools)

Expected Result: Scheduling time cut 60-70%. Better utilisation. Fewer last-minute scrambles.

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Strategic Build

4-6 months

AI continuously optimises across your whole operation. Balances competing priorities. Predicts capacity issues before they happen. Learns what works.

Tools: Custom optimisation platform

Expected Result: Scheduling becomes a competitive advantage. Higher margin through better utilisation.

Problems This Solves

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Can't keep up

Stop letting scheduling be your bottleneck

You could take more work if you could coordinate it. Scheduling complexity limits growth because every job creates a puzzle of constraints.

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Money leaking

Stop leaving money on the table through poor allocation

Crews travel further than needed. Equipment sits idle. Jobs take longer than they should. Inefficient scheduling bleeds margin every day.

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Inconsistent quality

Get predictable delivery regardless of complexity

Some jobs run smoothly. Others are chaos. The difference isn't the work - it's how well the scheduling handled the constraints.

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Flying blind

Spot scheduling conflicts before they become crises

Problems hide in the complexity. You find out about clashes when someone's double-booked or a deadline is missed.

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