About Scheduling Possibilities Using Scenarios

Incremental Runcutting is a process of manipulating parameters to achieve a cost-effective set of runs that conforms to the work rules in place at an organization.

Since scheduling is an inherently iterative process that requires you to adhere to many work rules, it is essential that as schedulers, you are able to apply and hone your runcutting skills in an environment that allows you to experiment without altering or losing work already achieved.

BlockBuster provides such an environment: schedulers can freely explore scheduling possibilities to further the goal of achieving legal and efficient runcuts by developing scenarios. Within this environment, you have the freedom to experiment with a runcut and if the alterations you make do not achieve the desired results or if you do not think the results of the runcut puts you on the right path to achieving the final results you want, you do not need to save your alterations.

Scenarios can be used to:

• Review proposed policies by quickly simulating their effects. Improve the efficiency of runcuts.
• Respond to changes in work and or pay rules quickly.

Within BlockBuster, scenarios are a trial runcut comprised of the parameter settings you selected and the resulting runcut. You may save multiple scenarios for a single context.