Creation of the projects

You create here and treat on a hierarchical basis your projects; you save and use templates of projects or groups of tasks; you characterize your projects and tasks by means of concepts of duration (or effort), of required competence, link of precedence, calendar, risk and category.

Edition of the projects (input)

You visualize the theoretical planning of a project, or several projects, in rich Gantt of many characteristics; you locate in a glance the tasks which are on the critical path and the margins, or filter the tasks by category.

Creation of the resources

You create here and treat on a hierarchical basis your resources; you characterize your resources by means of concepts of quantities, of dates of starting and end, competence offered, effectiveness, calendar, risk and category.

Application of coefficients

The coefficients are a whole of values which you apply to the tasks or the resources for purposes to give them a profile of execution or availability in conformity with reality. They can be statistics of absenteeism (diseases, accidents, holidays...), of uncertainties over the duration of the tasks, the possible interruptions in the completion of the work (bad weather...), of the effectiveness, of the outputs...

Definition of the objectives and priorities

Before starting automatic planning, you can define a series of objectives on the dates of starting and end of the tasks and the projects as well as priorities on the use of the resources and the planning of the projects; you can finally exclude from planning certain projects and resources

Automatic planning and results

The results of planning are provided in the shape of Gantt who gives the dates of realization and the estimated duration of the tasks and, from there, the swiftness with which these tasks could be carried out as well as the results of the beforehand laid down objectives.

Visualization of the curves of allowance

The curves of allowance inform you on several dimensions: initial capacity of the resources, unavailability resulting from the calendars, vacation and other limitations and finally allowances; the allowances details are given in bottoms of the screen where you visualize the precise positioning of the tasks and also the roles for which the resources were requested.

Visualization of KPIs

The results of planning are also declined in the form of KPIs which are as many indicators of the quality of planning, compared to several dimensions such as the number of planned projects, the intensity of use of the resources and the benefit obtained.

Scenario manager

Create in a few seconds of new scenarios and compare them on the basis of KPIs; visualize quickly the scenario which answers your needs; once validated this scenario can then become your new base of work

Base tracker

Once realized and keyed in, follow the evolution of your planning from base to base thanks to the Base Tracker; this tool enables you to visualize the variations and the deviances between realized and planned. This will enable you to use the replacement planning quickly or to incorporate in future plannings the standards which result from what exists.

I) Sectors

• IT
  • Software development
  • IT consultants
  • Integrators
• Project Management
  • Buildings and civil engineering
  • Project management consultants
  • Program Management
• Human Resources:
  • Security, cleaning services, maintenance
  • Social services
  • Hospitals and healthcare

Developing a resource-constrained schedule is often a complex and lengthy process, as task duration and resource availability depend on allocation, timing, calendars, risk and on the schedule of other tasks. As a result, planning is often done once and is never changed, or it is oversimplified with rough estimates

Our scheduling engine automatically generates a resource-constrained schedule, while also taking into account historical values and estimated changes in time (e.g. velocity, resource levels, risk)

The engine finds the best schedule for even thousands of tasks in seconds, using combinations of heuristic algorithms, and with automatic resource leveling

Multi-project

Manage one or more projects, on a short or long time period becomes for you a real time-saving operation.

Resources: Roles, skills and levels

Define your resources needs in terms of roles, skills, availability, and risks (accidents, sick-leaves�). Thanks to its technology this planning software allows you to anticipate future developments (trainings, employee turn-over,�). The planning engine picks the appropriate resources for the tasks.

Coefficients

In order to offer you the most reliable planning as close to reality as possible, coefficients take into account random and unpredictable factors (weather, sick-leaves, delays�)

Import MS-Project

You can import your existing projects and resource data from MS Project. It takes only a few seconds for PlanningForce to process you file into a more efficient project planning tool.

Base Management-Agile Scheduling

Updating your bases allow you to known at any given time the advancement of your projects. You can automatically process the new constrains into an adapted planning.