Benefits
Customers optimizing their task and resource planning with PlanningForge have realized the following benefits:
- 3 to 5% improved cost-effectiveness of resources
Through reduction of under-productivity and best covering the work load
- Up to 50% time saved in planning operations
Through automated planning, better sharing of information, and improved consistency, as all data resides in one database
additional benefits include:
- Increases in customer services levels. By ensuring appropriate availability of qualified personnel.
- Decreases in employee churn. By considering individual preferences and ensuring fair workload balance.
- More pro-active management of resources. Increase the planning horizon up to a year, anticipate requirements by importing forecasted work loads, and detect performance improvement opportunities through improved management reporting.
- Increased control of the entire planning process. across the organisation - by standardisation and integration of processes through a single integrated system
- Greater compliance with requirements. On all levels: group level (legislation, collective bargaining agreements, etc.), individual level (personal obligations, etc.), and customer and organisational levels.
- Support for business growth. Our solution scales with your organisation: plan 1 day or 1 year ahead, for 100 or 10,000 resources, as our algorithmic procedure is not exponentially linked to the number of resources, tasks and constraints.
- Improved performance management. Through better management reporting.
- Development and deployment of best-practice planning models. Take into consideration past and future validated tasks for planning optimization; validate and execute various planning strategies through different planning scenarios.
