Demand forecasting#
Most schedules are copied from last week and corrected from memory. Demand forecasting lets Shiftavo do the arithmetic instead.
You tell it what you count — money taken, covers served, parcels sorted — and how much work one of those units is. Shiftavo learns the shape of your weeks from your own recorded history, projects it forward, and turns the projection into required hours per position, per interval, per location. Those required hours then feed the coverage grid, shift generation, and the headcount targets automatic assignment aims for.
It is part of the Plus and Pro plans, not a switch you flip: on Core the demand pages are missing from the sidebar, and opening one by its address lands on the upgrade page. Nothing about the way you plan today changes until the feature is there.
Note
Demand forecasting needs history to learn from. A brand-new company sees no forecast until four weeks of recorded values exist — that is expected, not a fault.
The order to set it up in#
Make sure you have it — How to get demand forecasting.
Create a driver — the one number that drives your work: How to create a demand driver.
Record the actual values — by hand, by CSV, or over the API: How to record actual values.
Flag the days that lie — closures, one-off events: How to mark an exception day.
Set a labor standard — how much work one unit is, per position: How to create a labor standard.
Read the plan and override it where you know better: How to read the demand plan.