It's 5:55 AM. The 6 AM line lead hasn't clocked in. You don't know if they're stuck in traffic or not coming. The line can't start without a lead, the night-shift crew is heading home, and you've got fifteen minutes to find someone qualified.
And the rota itself is a puzzle: three shifts, two lines, certifications per station, the four-week rotation that keeps weekends fair, the overtime threshold you can't cross without approval.
One operator missing on the 6 AM shift means the line starts forty minutes late. By the time you've called around to find a qualified replacement, you've already lost the morning's quota — and the late-comer's overtime is on Friday's payroll.
Forklift cert, food-handler cert, machine-operator cert — different stations need different ones. When the rota gets built without checking, you find out at 5:58 AM that the person you scheduled isn't certified for that line. Now you're asking someone to stay over.
Who got the last weekend off, who's done three nights in a row, who hasn't had a day shift this month — it's all tracked in someone's head or a manual spreadsheet. Then someone complains it's unfair, and they're right, but you can't prove what's been balanced.
Weekly overtime cap, monthly cap, daily cap, the union limit on consecutive days — all real, all enforceable, all easy to break when you're scheduling under pressure. You see it on Friday's payroll, after the fact.
Publish the rota with a confirmation deadline. Operators tap confirm or 'can't make it' on their phone. By the evening before, you see who's coming and who hasn't responded. Three hours to find cover instead of three minutes.
Mark a station as needing 'forklift cert' or 'level-3 operator'. The rota builder only shows operators who have that tag when you assign. No more 5:58 AM surprises about who can run which line.
Four-week rolling rotation, two-week alternation, fixed shift teams — save the pattern, copy it forward, adjust for who's on. Fairness becomes a record, not a memory.
Set the weekly cap, the monthly cap, the consecutive-day limit. The rota builder warns before you publish a shift that breaks them. Friday's payroll stops being a discovery.
Two factories, three lines each. One screen shows coverage per line, per shift. Move someone between sites when production demands it, with hours, breaks, and overtime following them into the right cost centre.
You check the dashboard. Two operators haven't confirmed. You message them. One confirms, one says they can't — propose a swap from the standby pool, accepted. The 6 AM line starts on time.
Pull up last cycle's pattern. The rotation continues automatically. Adjust for the new hire, the leaver, the two people on annual leave. Publish in an hour, not a Saturday.
Filter by employee and date range. Every clocked hour, every break, every late finish — timestamped. Disputes resolve in minutes, not a back-and-forth over the schedule.
Line B needs a forklift-certified operator after a no-show. Open the dashboard, see who's certified and free, propose a transfer. Confirmed, line running, audit trail intact.
Server-timestamped clock-in, tamper-evident audit log, 5-year retention, worker dispute flow. The 1 January 2027 law is met without configuration.
See 2027 compliance →Pick CP 111 at team setup, type one base hourly rate. Day, night, Saturday, Sunday and holiday supplements auto-fill. Override any slot if your enterprise agreement differs.
See CP 111 specifics →Generate DimonaIn and DimonaOut XML from the dashboard. NISS/BCE validation before download. Status tracked per employee. Flexi-job and extra horeca contract types built in.
See Dimona workflow →Infrastructure in the EU, audit log on every change, personal data export or deletion on request. DPA available.
Same flow, every cycle, every line.
90-day free trial. No credit card. Add your operators, build a four-week rotation, see if it stops the 5:58 AM surprises. You only pay for staff you actually schedule each month — temporary or seasonal cost nothing in unused months.
If it doesn't save you time in the first cycle, don't use it.
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