In high-volume situations where you manage many Jobs that must be dispatched quickly and efficiently, you can invoke the Propose Schedule option to automatically generate Schedule Proposals and easily dispatch multiple Jobs in the currently selected Job List. After Schedule Proposals with temporary Appointments are created, you can then edit, update, or reset Resources in the same manner as for manually created Appointments, and then accept the proposal to complete the scheduling process. Automated scheduling functionality is defined in scheduling policies, which contain settings such as Resource utilization levels, SLA compliance, and travel time requirements, and also define the relative importance of these parameters.

Schedule Proposals uses the Schedule Optimization engine in ServiceMax Core. If this option is enabled by your system administrator and available to you, the Propose Schedule icon appears near the top of the Job List in the Scheduler Tab.