Resource Planning Software

[nancycahille]

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Hello There,

Being a project manager for my company my work is to manage our projects across the world. With a huge resource pool like ours it is really troublesome for me to schedule them. So i wanted some kind of an automated program that would list down all my resources at one place and would let me schedule them then & there. Manual scheduling is just not working for me and is mistake prone. Can someone suggest some kind of software that would do the above mention things along with maintaining well organized and detailed financial and utilization reports of the resources. Not to mention that the software should be smart enough to warn me if i were booking a resource that is already booked by someone. Thanks in advance, it would be really helpful to hear from you all.

[JAMES_911]

You can download software called Resource Planning Software by searching it from google that can assign resources to tasks quickly and easily using this Resource Scheduling software. Select your tasks and at the click of a button, assign resources to them using the Resource Planning features provided.

[nancycahille]

Originally Posted by james_911

You can download software called Resource Planning Software by searching it from google that can assign resources to tasks quickly and easily using this Resource Scheduling software. Select your tasks and at the click of a button, assign resources to them using the Resource Planning features provided.

Hi,

James thanks for the reply, but can you mention any particular software because i have already searched google and there are lots of planning software. Suggest me something which you have heard off or you think is the best resource planning software.

[JulieS]

Hi Nancy,

Have you considered Microsoft Project? It is a project management scheduling software and you define resources, define tasks, and assign resources to tasks. Project will alert you if you have assigned the resource to more tasks (effort) than the resource's schedule allows.

You may download a trial version at:
http://www.microsoft.com/project/en-us/try.aspx

if you have any questions about Project, you may post to the Project forum here:

http://forums.techarena.in/microsoft-project/

I hope this helps.

Julie

[TedAldrin]

Originally Posted by nancycahille

Hello There,

Being a project manager for my company my work is to manage our projects across the world. With a huge resource pool like ours it is really troublesome for me to schedule them. So i wanted some kind of an automated program that would list down all my resources at one place and would let me schedule them then & there. Manual scheduling is just not working for me and is mistake prone. Can someone suggest some kind of software that would do the above mention things along with maintaining well organized and detailed financial and utilization reports of the resources. Not to mention that the software should be smart enough to warn me if i were booking a resource that is already booked by someone. Thanks in advance, it would be really helpful to hear from you all.

Hey Nancy,
I am a project manager myself. I also faced similar problems like you are facing. Majors ones were like our resources were located across the globe and my job was to schedule them without making any error of overloading. Manual scheduling is truly troublesome. I went to an IT expert, he advised me to go for eResource Scheduler. I went for the trial and the software turned out to be what i wanted. It had detailed niche reporting features, time sheet management, etc. It worked for me just well. If you were to take my advice, go for the trial and see if it works for you as well.

[namrata.shah]

Have you tried Saviom resource planning software? It has a very visual scheduling chart that allows you to see all your resources according to location, department, skill etc. It also allows you to keep detailed information on each of your resources including information on how much they are loaded, booked etc.