Resource capacity planning

Automatic resource capacity planning, improve your productivity!

Resource capacity planning is a process of defining and planning the needs for production.

Demand is often higher than the actual availability of resources, this problem is seen during the project implementation, and delay problems are emerging. It is important to predict delivery deadlines that will be respected.

Resource capacity planning in PlanningForce

PlanningForce is a resource capacity planning software that offers a wide range of capacity planning tools to both define your demands (projects) and needs (resources). You will be able to analyze the available capacity and the required capacity which are quite often not the same.

Identify and eliminate over-utilization of resources

The scheduling engine eliminates over-usage by balancing the workload; that results in a period of work longer than initially planned.

Resource allocation before balancing the workload

Here we see the over-utilization of resources in light green. PlanningForce will resolves this problem. The available capacity is lower that the required capacity.

Resource allocation after having automatically balanced the workload

After having launched the automatic scheduling engine, we see that the workload has been balanced and that resources have been used based on their real availability.

Identify your needs in terms of resources

The methodology underlying PlanningForce provides realistic schedules and realistic forecasts based on current settings (number of resources,availability, capacity, constraints).

You will also imagine scenarios, simulations (new recruitment, purchase of machinery ,...). What will happen if I was recruiting? What would the impact on my projects and accomplishments? We will explain this further in the program management section.

PlanningForce excels in these contexts: