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Online Resource Scheduling Software from Atlantic Global
Atlantic Global provides a comprehensive resource scheduling software solution enabling you to effectively manage individuals, teams, departments and projects with our intuitive multi view web based resource scheduling software. Easily service resource requests, indentify resourcing conflicts and analyse daily, weekly and monthly utilisation levels.
Key Resource Scheduling Features- Easily Schedule Resources |
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Simple and Effective Online Resource Scheduling Software
The intuitive nature of the system makes resource scheduling quick and easy. The system provides an intelligent method of scheduling by allowing you to build a comprehensive skills database, allowing your resource plans to be matched with best fit resources based on role, skills, availability, location or any other user-defined filter. Resource planners can allocate roles to tasks in order to determine role based capability, our online resource scheduling software also enables you to create role based resource requests and task based assignments. In addition ad hoc work can be directly scheduled without the need for a project task.
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Comprehensive Resource Scheduling Dashboards
The scheduling dashboards provide up to date information about your resource capability and utilisation levels directly to your desktop, in a simple format. Resource schedules can be viewed in monthly, weekly and daily formats, enabling you to identify and schedule role-based resource requests and highlighting any resourcing conflicts. The online resource scheduling software allows you to specify resource lists to analyse schedules by role, skill, location, department, team, project or any user-defined variable colour code by project, confirmed/provisional and utilisation.
Benefits in Brief
- Improve Resource Utilisation
- Reduce administration associated with manual or Excel based systems
- Reduce time on the bench
- Increase revenue - ensure your highest fee earners are deployed to maximum effect
- Improve project delivery and cash flow
- Gain real time visibility into resource capability and your capacity to deliver
- Identify skills shortages and training requirements
For a full breakdown of the benefits offered by the Atlantic Global Resource Scheduling Software visits our benefits section.
Gantt Based Scheduling
The Atlantic Global Solution enables you to easily schedule resources to project tasks. The dynamic Gantt based scheduling view provides a colour coded overview of resource assignments based on their chargeable status and whether the assignment is confirmed or provisional. Bespoke resource lists can be defined enabling the analysis of resource assignments by Project Teams, Departments, Skill Groups, Roles or any user defined criteria. Each resource can be expanded to analyse the projects and tasks to which they have been assigned. New task assignments can be allocated by simply selecting any available time.
Direct Scheduling
For ad hoc and short term scheduling the Atlantic Global Solution includes an intuitive weekly schedule view which displays a breakdown of resource assignments, daily across each week. To simplify the scheduling process any project flagged as available for direct scheduling can easily be scheduled via the Calendar view. Users simply select the day they wish to allocate a resource to and select the appropriate project from the drop down list. For direct scheduling projects there is no need to select a project task making it extremely useful for scheduling ad hoc meetings or assignments not related to a project plan. A time saving and highly intuitive feature for team leaders or resource managers is the ability to search directly from the calendar view for any outstanding tasks which can be used to fulfil a resources availability.
Utilisation Analysis
The Atlantic Global Solutions Resource Scheduling functionality enables organisations to easily assess the utilisation of resources across weeks or months. Using colour coding to graphically illustrate utilisation levels, resource managers can easily identify periods of under and over utilisation and dynamically search for any outstanding tasks which can fulfil resource availability. In addition, allocated time, availability and overall resource capability can be analysed.
Request Management
To ensure the Project Planning and Resource Scheduling processes are fully integrated, the Atlantic Global Solution enables roles to be allocated to tasks in order to generate resource requests. Resource requests can be displayed as role based assignments on your project plans and resource schedules in order to easily identify where resource allocations are required. In addition, the Scheduling Dashboard includes a dedicated resource request tab where users can display all outstanding resource requests by role as well as identifying any under-allocated tasks. Scheduling a resource request is simple, by default when a user searches for a resource the system automatically picks up the required dates, effort, role and skills from the underlying request – this ensures the Resource Manager need only click search in order to find a suitable, available resource to allocate to the request.
Conflict Resolution
The Atlantic Global Solution provides a simple tool to identify any resourcing conflicts. Whenever a project plan is rescheduled, a resource is double booked or a replacement is required due to sickness, any associated resource conflicts are summarised to the end user via the Resource Conflicts view. Managing out conflicts couldn’t be easier, by simply selecting the conflict that requires resolution the system will automatically inherit the profile of the underlying resource in order to identify the best available replacement. For further information on the Atlantic Global Solutions Resource Scheduling functionality see our full list of articles.
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