Case Study: KAVA achieves 12% better roster quality with Solvice

Koninklijke Apothekers Vereniging Improved roster quality by 12%

KAVA worked with Solvice to improve the planning of on-call shifts for 4,930 Belgian pharmacies across 126 sectors over a half-year period. The challenge was to assign one pharmacy on duty in each sector while minimizing distance and balancing pharmacies’ preferences and availability.

Solvice built a planning optimization solution using intelligent planning moves, swaps, and efficient meta-heuristics, delivered through its workforce scheduling optimization capabilities. The result was optimized half-year on-call plans in minutes, with roster quality improved by 12%, and KAVA can now adjust the weighting of objectives more easily in the future.

KAVA

Bernard De Ruyck

IT Director