"The FAA selected Quintiq because of its proven market leadership in providing employee scheduling software for complex environments," states Victor Allis, CEO at Quintiq. "Our extensive experience in the air traffic control industry and ability to deliver best practices around workforce optimization for air traffic control organizations were key to the FAA's decision to utilize Quintiq software." 

The Quintiq employee scheduling software provides FAA managers with an optimal software solution over the full scheduling horizon. Advanced optimization engines and extensive "what-if" capabilities will improve the FAA's long-term workforce planning; using what-if scenarios, managers will be able to experiment with resource allocation options and make more informed decisions with the goal of optimizing staffing levels while continuing to ensure safe and efficient operations. 

In addition, the Quintiq "off-the-shelf" system has many advanced capabilities that the FAA may utilize to manage annual leave planning, efficiently create shift plans, allocate shifts to individual employees, and support short-term absenteeism management (sick leave, short-term leave ). The software supports a range of self-service concepts for employees, such as swapping shifts with colleagues and requesting leave, by helping managers evaluate the feasibility and implications of each request. 

Joachim Arts, in charge of Marketing & Sales for Quintiq in North America, added: "The selection of Quintiq by such a large organization as the FAA is the strongest possible vote of confidence in our software. It proves that Quintiq can deliver significant efficiency gains in large and complex organizations, especially in the government sector. Leveraging our unmatched expertise and experience, we will keep developing highly innovative scheduling applications for other federal institutions, to help them contain and reduce costs and to provide the much-needed efficiency improvements that government organizations around the world are looking for."