Case Study

Roche Diagnostics Slashed Time Spent Planning ILT by 90%

Administrate is Roche Diagnostics’ single source of truth, saving hundreds of hours in manual work.

Overview

About Roche Diagnostics

Roche Diagnostics is a global healthcare company that excels in pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and medical equipment. Roche delivers innovative treatments and cutting-edge diagnostic tools to enhance patient care and management. Their commitment to research and development continues to set industry standards and improve lives worldwide.

Complex scheduling conflicts with high-value training resources meant high costs. Roche’s training team cut those losses with Administrate.

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  • Industry:

    Pharma

  • Objective:

    Improve ROI in training program

  • Result:

    300% expected increase in training program ROI

Results

Roche has been able to leverage Administrate beyond boosting planning and scheduling efficiency.

  • 100 s

    of hours saved per cycle

  • 89 %

    reduction in planning time

  • 25 %

    less time and cost

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“Administrate let us move from firefighting to forecasting.”
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Will Osman

Enablement & Technology Systems Lead, Roche Diagnostics

The goal

Reduce time to plan, increase ROI

Roche depends on high-value labs, medical equipment, and highly-skilled instructors to train a diverse audience of learners. Each quarter thousands of customers, instructors, sales teams, and technicians receive specialized training on medical equipment. Even a single empty seat in a lab was expensive. Roche wanted to reach full training resource utilization to improve their ROI.

 

Challenges

Planning at scale was unscalable

Planning training was taking too long: up to 360 hours every month (or more) to plan next quarter’s master schedule. Instructors were double-booked. Labs were overcommitted. Stakeholders had no single source of truth for training, with core data scattered across teams and hidden in giant spreadsheets. Roche was managing ILT through:

  • Disconnected tools like Google Sheets and Smartsheets
  • Multiple conflicting “master” schedules.
  • Manual planning and resource allocation.
A lab scene with a microscope is overlaid with alerts for overdue tasks, missing resources, and a prompt to add equipment requirements for training sessions.
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“Before Administrate, we were using 700-line spreadsheets to plan training.”
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Cristy Mangin

Training & Development Manager, Roche Diagnostics

Solution

AI-powered planning and scheduling

Roche Diagnostics implemented the Administrate Training Management System to centralize and automate their training scheduling. Administrate sits at the center of Roche’s training operation, a hub acting as a master scheduler, single source of truth, and powerful reporting and forecasting engine.

Once data reaches Administrate through powerful integrations, the AI-powered Scheduler gets to work. In just minutes a draft schedule is created that honors all of Roche’s requirements, availability, and other criteria for instructor-led training. The draft schedule can be edited and then published all from within Administrate. They did this using Administrate’s course templates, AI-powered Scheduler, and availability calendar.

  • Standardized session setup across programs.
  • Visual tool to drag, drop, and resolve conflicts.
  • Real-time visibility into instructor and room capacity.
  • Reuse past data to build future plans with master schedule imports.
Illustration of Administrate's Scheduler showing Angiography & Vascular Courses Q2. The interface displays a schedule for April 1st to 12th, with courses listed and their corresponding time blocks. A 'Solved' status is indicated, and a modal is in the bottom right with a ‘create events and book’ button. The modal indicates that 115 draft events, 67 instructors, and 439 resources will be created and booked.
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“Six days. That’s how long scheduling a quarter of live training would take. That was all we did, and we had to bring in stakeholders from outside of training. It made us a cost center. Now, Administrate can do 90% of that work in ten minutes. We are turning into a revenue center.”
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Cristy Mangin

Training & Development Manager, Roche Diagnostics

What’s next

Next up: full system integration, smarter forecasting, better decisions

With a TMS at the center of their training program, Roche Diagnostic has:

  • Introduced standardized fill rate targets (e.g. 80% minimum).
  • Enabled data-based decision-making about course demand and cancellations.
  • Surface real-time insights on instructor utilization and room capacity.
  • Gained stakeholder trust through greater transparency and feedback.
  • Created consistency across internal and external programs using a single source of truth.

But that’s not all. Roche plans to use Administrate’s powerful API to integrate completely with existing systems. Here’s what on the roadmap:

  • LMS integrations to eliminate redundant admin work.
  • Reporting expansion to analyze instructor hours, resource utilization, and fill rates.
  • Forecasting improvements powered by historical training data.
  • Field training tracking for distributed learning delivery at customer sites.

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