Engineering

The resource factor, through the notions of competence and team work, will play a critical role here.

• At short notice, PlanningForce optimizes the allocation of your resources by reducing the spare time and increasing the profitability of everyone in the organization.
• In the longer term, PlanningForce will help you select the right projects for your resource portfolio or adapt your resources to a given project portfolio.

And to avoid disillusions once the projects have started, you will be able to add risk coefficients to your projects and efficiency coefficients to your resources.

IT services

Short, long, recurring or one-off tasks have to be scheduled concurrently so you can meet the expectations your company and the users put on your service.

As it's not always easy to juggle with all the priorities, the complexity of projects and the availability of resources, PlanningForce will help you keep control of all the tasks on a daily basis, giving the right priority to everything, and using available resources in the best way.

By using the full power of the PlanningForce automatic scheduling system, you will gain so much time that your job will never be the same again!

Consulting

Consulting companies need to make the most of their costly resources on existing or probable future contracts. That's why it's important to model certain and uncertain projects and answer questions such as 'is it more interesting to use employees or freelance consultants?'

All this can be done in a few clicks with PlanningForce.

Once your tasks have started, it's important to track the time spent and produce correct invoices as quickly as possible!

It's also critical to reallocate your resources immediately when events like sickness, unforeseen tasks or longer tasks interfere with the existing plan.

Laboratories

It's not rare for laboratories to have to plan hundreds of qualified tasks per week. It is therefore crucial for their managers to benefit from a powerful tool like PlanningForce to make sure every task is correctly planned, which means:

• respecting the date constraints, the timing, the sequence,
• respecting the skill requirements
• and any other request for equipment or material
• ...

And of course, managers will need frequent task updates, so that, if necessary, they can adapt the plan quickly and reliably.

That's why PlanningForce has been conceived to be easily integrated with other tools like ERPs, time registration, ...

Construction

Risk factors (weather conditions, incidents, ...), task interdependencies, idling of costly or unique equipment and the presence of different teams and companies on a building site make construction very difficult to plan and schedule.

Planning qualified workers in building shell construction is also very different from planning and scheduling workers for the finishing.

PlanningForce flexibility will help PMOs and PMs in this sector to consider, in one tool, all the situations they meet. They can rely on PlanningForce to define both the master and the weekly plans.

PlanningForce is also the best tool for PMs to use to update the work in progress and negotiate resource allocations.