Objective This guide shows you how to enter budget and forecast labor costs in PMI, depending on whether your property is set up to use rates or total labor cost.  Requirements - Access to the Budget and forecast module.- Permission to edit labor cost data.- Confirmation of which method your property uses: rates or total labor cost.- Prepared...
PMI is designed to provide a complete overview of labor hours across all departments, helping you effectively manage and benchmark your hotel’s productivity performance. When a department like housekeeping is outsourced, it may seem unnecessary to include those hours in the system. However, maintaining this data is crucial for accurate...
What is a parent cockpit? The purpose of a parent cockpit is to: Enable consolidation of hours and activity cost drivers. Streamline review and update of two or more sub-cockpits. For instance, IT, maintenance and finance departments are operated by a fixed staff level, independent from the day-to-day fluctuations in the level of business...
Summary How to close a Profit Center/Live Forecast and/or a cockpit during a period. Intended Users Forecast Owners and Cockpit Owners. Requirements Administrator user rights. Instructions Live Forecast/Profit Center If you for periods, need to close down a Live Forecast/Profit Center there are two options: Remove the Revenue Driver for the days...
What is the staffing guide? The Staffing Guide is a recommendation of how many labor hours to schedule each day for each department. Once activated, it appears as green lines in the graphs of each Labor Cockpit. Users with Administrator rights can activate it via the tools icon in the Cockpit. How is it calculated? The Staffing Guide uses...
It is possible to use Arrivals and/or Departures as a cost driver in a cockpit.When you activate the forecasting feature for Arrivals/Departures in Rooms Live forecast, it will generate a daily forecast for arrivals and departures. This forecast will be derived from the daily Live forecast room nights values. Changing a housekeeping or front...
Summary There are different ways to work with labor cost in PMI R&P. The rate will always be displayed in the Cockpit and the box where it is displayed can either be opened for editting or closed, depending on the settings selected. We differentiate between Current Rate (Live forecast rate), Forecasted Rate and Budgeted Rate. The calculation...
What is Min/Max? MIN/MAX hours is a setting in the labor cockpit in PMI. It allows you to manually set a minimum and maximum number of hours to be scheduled each day of the week for your department. Exceptions can be added for holidays and fixed dates, ensuring flexibility for unique scheduling needs. What is its purpose? Setting Min/Max hours...
SMART is a monthly forecast based on the productivity/hours forecast set (How is SMART calculated?). It identifies historical trends to suggest how many hours should be scheduled each day in order to meet the monthly productivity/hours forecast. The manual primary cost driver will always be included, but SMART may identify the best correlation...
What is a SMART forecast? The SMART forecast in PMI is a daily breakdown of your monthly productivity/hours forecast . SMART forecast allocates the month forecast to each day based on the expected activity levels of hotel using the cost driver forecast and historic staffing patterns. This can be used to plan staff schedules in line with the...
Summary The Cost driver tab in the Labor cockpit is used for managing the department’s cost driver. Most hotel groups have corporate standards to be able to compare like for like, please verify with your head office before changing the settings. Intended Users Cockpit Owners Instructions A factor that causes a change in labor hours; i.e. what...
Summary PMI Labor Cockpit (and Schedule) are used to manage labor cost and adjust the staffing according to expected level of activity in the department, both short and long term. This article covers the Budget and Forecast preparations needed for managing productivity. Intended Users Cockpit Owners Instructions Preparations The purpose with the...
Understanding the Labor Cockpit Layout At the top of the screen, on the same level as the breadcrumb navigation (e.g., Cockpit > Hotel name > Department), you’ll find selection tabs to switch between cockpit types such as Revenue, Food Cost, and Food Waste, depending on what’s available for your department. Just below that, you’ll see radio...
What is a Labor cockpit? The Labor cockpit is where department heads manage their staff schedules. There is a Labor cockpit for each department in PMI and a department head has been assigned to each one. Here, they manage the staff schedules according to the needs and activity in their department.As a department head, your main goals when using...