Crew Rostering & Planning

Capgemini offers full service to the shipping companies as the world’s largest project & consulting practice in this sector! Part of this service is our service offering on Advanced Planning & Scheduling for shipping companies. This offering gives you the opportunity to optimize your crew planning puzzle while honouring the labour legislations.

The offered planning solution for the shipping businesses is focused on but not restricted to:

  • Tramp planning
  • Liner planning
  • Barging
  • Crew planning
  • Container repositioning

The Challenge

The consolidation of shipping companies, increasingly difficult labour legislations, labour satisfaction and the right are major crew planning challenges. These challenges are making it difficult to make a crew roster and plan while taking all this into account. On top of that having customers making demands to what kind of crew (crewmembers) they want you to use for that CoA.

With CREW ROSTERING & PLANNING you want to have as little allocation costs and labour costs as possible, but at the same time also achieve maximum crew satisfaction. These need to be in balance, while honouring the various legislations that apply to the crew. Making sure that your vessels have all the right crewmembers in time on board at the right location.

As cargo is hard to find, you need to make sure you have the right human resources at the right place at the right time.

The Solution

Crew rostering and planning with APS (Advance Planning & Scheduling) offers the solution that helps you dealing with these challenges. The extensive experience with workforce planning puzzles comes back within this APS shipping solution. Dealing with all planning constraints on the crew rostering & planning, like crew preferences, skills, availability (i.e. 1-1, 1-2 shifts) and roles. Putting all this in the APS solution will make sure you achieve your result of a well balanced crew rostering & planning.

With the usage of simulations the planner can add and remove crewmembers to the roster and immediately see if constraints are violated. Management can use the solution to make strategic analysis on crewmember requirements.

The Benefits

Important benefit is to have a crew planning ready in far less time. At the same time the need to make constant changes to the crew planning will decrease considerable as all constraints are taken into account when the crew planning is created. Resulting in a major benefit to have better crew satisfaction.

The reduction of operational costs is another benefit, because the planning is created based on the availability of the crewmembers which are best suited for that vessel voyage. We also have to make sure that all the crewmembers are rostered for the voyage.

Overall the quick business benefits are:

  • Improved crew satisfaction
  • Less time spend on crew planning
  • Less operational costs
  • Improved customer satisfaction having the right crewmembers

Planning for Profit

Better planning is directly related to better performance. In order to manage the complexity and keep overview over all the details in the planning, you need to focus on the key performance indicators (KPI’s). We help you identify the KPI’s and we make sure that the KPI’s are measurable. Thus, we enable you to steer on the quality and profitability of the plans. In short: planning for profit.

An APS solution implemented by Capgemini’s GSC APS, has the following additional benefits:

  • Solve your planning puzzles in all their complexity
  • Makes your planning process transparent
  • Consistency between planning and realization
  • Fits in any IT landscape

Why Us

Realizing complex multi-resource planning solutions is one of the core capabilities of Capgemini’s Global Solution Center APS. The solution center has successfully carried out over 40 Quintiq implementations at a wide range of industries. Capgemini’s Rightshore® delivery model, involving local entities and development centers in India and Holland, ensure high quality and sufficient implementation capacity in the emerging APS market.

Capgemini has a thriving Transport & Distribution sector, and has long standing relationships in the shipping sector. Capgemini’s experience in this sector is captured in the Competence Centre Ports & Shipping in The Netherlands (50 consultants) and the Maritime Knowledge Centre Norway. Our expertise is at your disposal.

Contact Us

Wim-Paul Swanborn, Herman Bosker
Contact our Utrecht office.
e-mail: gscaps.nl@capgemini.com tel: +31 30 6898402