About Spread Standards

Spread Standards are based on a previous assessment of staffing requirements on an hour-by-hour basis. Spread Standards are most commonly used for table games, but may also be used for positions for which a flow has previously been analyzed and, as a result, flexible staffing already set up.

Terms and Definitions

Shift	Allows you to determine which shift to associate with the Standard.
KBI	Allows you to determine which KBI to associate with the Standard.
Type	Displays one of the following: Fixed – Standards that are based on KBI values for the day. Dynamic – Dynamic spread standards that are based on KBI values that are in time increments less than one day.
From Volume/To Volume	Denotes the volume range of the standard. Enter 1 in the From Volume field and up to 99999 in the To Volume field, to specify the range. If you don't care about the range, you can specify 0 in the From field and some large number that is bigger than the biggest number the KBI will ever have, in the To field. For example, you use the KBI for Total Rooms. You know that you will never have more than 500 rooms, so you would enter 1 in the From Volume field and 500 in the To Volume field. Note that if you use a KBI based on the number of rooms, and the time required to perform the variable work increases or decreases with higher volume, you should create and specify additional ranges. Conceivably you can have multiple ranges for each KBI. Be careful to make the top end of the range anumber that is higher than you could ever encounter. In the previous example, if you set the range as 1-500 and then enter 501 rooms (because a room was sold twice in one day), LMS will ignore the 501 and return a 0 standard.
Days of the Week	Allows you to set separate Volumes for each day of the week. A graphical representation of the values is displayed for each day.

Configuring Spread Standards

To Add a Fixed Spread Standard:

Click the green plus icon at the bottom of the screen.
Select a Shift and KBI from the drop-down menus.
Enter a From Volume and To Volume.
Enter an amount for each time/day you wish to define the Spread.
Click OK.

To Add Ranges:

Click the Add Range icon at the bottom of the screen if you wish to add more ranges.
Click the Add Range button.
Enter a From Volume and To Volume.
Click OK.

Assignments Tab

To edit Assignments:

Select the appropriate Employee. Assignments the employee is currently authorized to work, are displayed.
Select or de-select Active next to the appropriate Assignment.

To add new Assignments to the employee:

Select the appropriate Employee.
Click the Add button.
Select the Assignment you wish to add.
Select the appropriate Rank from the drop-down.
Click Add.