Timefold

Manually keeping track of all contract rules is impossible when you are legally bound. In industries where one miscalculation can cost valuable time and resources, scheduling mistakes are not an option. ❌ Timefold removes that issue by automating every contractual and legal requirement. Our AI-powered Employee Shift Scheduling API generates optimized and compliant schedules automatically, taking into account: ✅ How labor laws (like the EU Working Time Directive) affect employee scheduling. ✅ The importance of time between shifts and consecutive workdays. ✅ How period rules regulate work hours, shift types, and locations. ✅ Why automation is essential for handling these complex scheduling constraints. 👉 Find out more about our out-of-the-box Employee Shift Scheduling solution here: https://lnkd.in/e85qGEug

Businesses operate across multiple timeframes and complexities, from immediate scheduling and routing to long-term strategic decisions. PlanningAI naturally encompasses the versatility of complex decision-making. That's why we set the #PlanningAI wave in motion. Curious about the origin? Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/gkHZ23DS

Timefold in the wild! 🤠 It’s always great to see that our technology is being used to solve real-world problems. Karl Magnus Rundberget from Kodemaker Systemutvikling AS showed his use case in both a video and as a blog post: assigning booth duty shifts at a conference. As he mentions in the video, that's generally speaking a pretty impossible task 😅, but he managed to do it with Timefold in a few lines of code. 📺 Watch the video here: https://lnkd.in/en3UPvTe 📝 Read the full blog post here: https://lnkd.in/e97X2Wee While both resources are in Norwegian 🇳🇴, we found Google Translate and the Youtube generated CC to be sufficient to consume this content. Thank you Magnus for sharing your experiences with Timefold!

👀 Optimize technician assignments based on skills and experience. Matching the right technician to a service call is a must. If a customer reports a water leak, they need a plumber and not an electrician, this is pretty straightforward. But the challenge goes further. Some tasks demand a specific level of expertise, so even a qualified plumber might not be enough if they’re only junior when a senior is required. And technicians don’t all work at the same pace. Differences in speed can make a big impact on service duration. Our out-of-the-box Field Service Routing model covers every common constraint to ensure efficient scheduling and optimal resource utilization. Try it here: https://lnkd.in/ewv_p79B #PlanningAI #FieldServiceRouting #ShiftScheduling

👋 Welcome to the first edition of Planned, featuring: - LLMs can't optimize schedules, but AI can - Timefold on stage - How I built an AI company to save my open source project - The challenges of Employee Shift Scheduling Planning to stay ahead? 👉 Subscribe for monthly updates!

PlanningAI, the future of operations research.

Planners spend hours upon hours creating the perfect planning, until: • The dreaded 6 AM “I can’t come in today, I’m sick” call. • Traffic jams that make “just-in-time” more like “definitely-late.” • That urgent customer crisis that can’t wait another minute. • Equipment failures or last-minute venue changes. • “Surprise!” calls that your best technician is now stuck on-site for hours. 😖 😖 😖 It happens all the time. No matter how perfect the plan seemed just the day before, things can go sideways in a flash. As a result, companies waste a fortune in time and resources, customers become frustrated with last-minute cancellations or delays, and employees end up running ragged. We’ve seen it firsthand, and it’s not pretty. Especially because it’s unnecessary. 🤩 🤩 🤩 There’s a simple fix: dynamic scheduling, a feature of our #PlanningAI. With a single click, PlanningAI re-optimizes your planning, instantly generating a new, feasible schedule. It's really that easy, find out more here: https://lnkd.in/ejmREQdC

Last week I spoke DEVWorld Conference in the RAI in Amsterdam. As a bit of a technological contrarian, I like to point out the weaknesses in "hyped" subjects. This time I talked about how #llm #genai can't automate nor optimize a schedule and how other #AI techniques such as #metaheuristics have been able to solve that complex issue for many decades already. Being able to apply these forms of #AI without needing complex math, by using Timefold instead, is an absolute gamechanger. It was great to connect with a lot of old and new friends 😊 . In case you missed it, you can always get a quick update by reading the Timefold newsletter which discussed this topic this month. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/dygUHT4i

Talk about a stellar lineup to be part of! 👀 We've been selected to take the stage not once, not twice, but three times at SUPERNOVA Festival, Europe's leading technology and innovation festival. Geoffrey De Smet will dig into how Timefold schedules and routes thousands of vehicles, employees, and machinery worldwide, while Maarten Vandenbroucke steps up to present the Timefold pitch. To top it off they'll team up for a session about co-founder chemistry. Looking forward! 🗓️ March 27 & 28, 2025 📍 Waagnatie, Antwerp, Belgium It's also great to see some friends and neighbors represented! TechWolf, Teamleader, Aikido Security, Wintercircus Ghent, ML6 | Your partner in AI, Yuki,...

"How is Timefold AI?" 🤔 It’s a question we hear often, especially now that AI is usually associated with Generative AI. While GenAI has brought AI into the mainstream, the tools everyone is using on a daily basis barely scratch the surface of what AI can do. So, we thought it was about time we put the spotlight on 'old-school' AI, the kind that solves large-scale planning problems like workforce scheduling and vehicle routing. Curious? Check out our latest blog post: https://lnkd.in/em-AbucY