An Oxford consultancy that specialises in one system — Oracle Cloud HCM — has relaunched the scheduling tool its consultants built for their own programmes. The MKSK Work Schedule Tool is now ScheduleX, a flagship member of the MKSK X Cloud Platform alongside FormulaX.
Schedules sound minor until a programme has hundreds of rotating patterns to build against a payroll deadline. Oracle’s seeded spreadsheet handles only a limited number of patterns, building schedules individually is slow, and commissioning a custom integration adds cost and delivery risk. ScheduleX takes the spreadsheet teams already use — Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets — and adds the controls the native route lacks: validation before loading, real-time duplicate blocking, automated exception flags, and bulk loading into Oracle Cloud HCM. It supports unlimited complex rotations, with role-based access, GDPR-ready audit logs, analytics and multi-tenant security built in. SME News credited that approach with reducing rota-to-payroll processing by up to 90% in its Greater London Enterprise Awards 2025 profile of MKSK, which won Best Use of AI in Enterprise HR Transformation 2025 and the Innovation Award in Payroll Automation & Transformation 2025.
Mohammed Khan, Director – Oracle Division, MKSK Consulting, said: We built this tool because we kept living that problem on implementations. As ScheduleX, it now gets the name, the platform and the focus it had already earned in practice.
MKSK Consulting, headquartered in Oxford, reports supporting 200,000 employees across 200 countries and jurisdictions and is a certified supplier to the UK Government’s Crown Commercial Service.
ScheduleX is available now.
More at https://schedulexcloud.com and https://www.mksk.co.uk
