Resource Planning & Management

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Optimise your resources for better project performance

Create resource plans that perfectly balance capacity with project needs to drive better utilisation.

Master project complexity with integrated resource planning & scheduling

Achieve enhanced visibility across the project lifecycle with EcoSys to enhance enterprisewide performance.

Drive sustainable success with connected resource planning

Learn how bringing together different departments and functions to maximise enterprisewide productivity helped this leading Engineering, Procurement & Construction customer.

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Overview

Enterprisewide resource management is a critical process for realising project success. You need flexible software that aligns to your organisation’s business strategy and structure while delivering real-time visibility of the resource trinity: capacity, demand and availability.

Hexagon’s Enterprise Project Performance solution, EcoSys provides a holistic approach to resource planning and management in one platform that integrates project portfolio management, project controls and project management across your enterprise. Manage all types of resources: human, equipment, materials and financial. Plan resources over any time horizon, with short and long-range view for any resource profile. Easily incorporate external resource capacity and demand resources from integrations with scheduling and HR systems.

Key Benefits

Plan and track resources across the enterprise. Produce accurate resource, cost and schedule forecasts. EcoSys enables:

Resource optimisation

Create and manage plans and scenarios to balance capacity with demand.

Strategic alignment

Utilize resources on projects most aligned to business strategy and goals.

Integration

Manage demand using integrated estimates, project plans, forecasts and performance.

Capabilities

EcoSys’ out-of-the-box capability supports resource management functionality within the same software used to manage and control project and portfolio costs, changes and performance. This helps optimise resources and identify idle time across your enterprise.

Develop detailed resource plans based on capacity, capability and availability.
Create resource breakdown structures to maintain and prioritise resource attributes such as rates, location and skills.
Allocate resources in accordance with business goals and priorities.
Analyze and manage resources to prevent under- and over-utilisation.
Use resource performance benchmarks during estimate creation and to monitor progress during execution.
Ensure all stakeholders are involved in the request, evaluation, balancing and assignment process.
Perform bottleneck analysis to ensure critical tasks are resourced properly.
Develop detailed demand plans whether by resource type or named resource.
Create and manage resource requests through an easy-to-use portal with approval workflows.
Accurately forecast future resource requirements using innovative progress and forecasting methods.

All this ensures you have the resources when and where they’re needed to keep projects running smoothly.

The power of integration

Integrated resource management drives performance

It’s the resources that turn business strategies into reality. EcoSys gives you direct access to resource demand and utilisation across all portfolios, programs and projects. Develop resource capacity plans quickly. Allocate and optimise resources based on project plans and forecasts. Monitor progress and measure performance at the project level to identify potential changes needed to keep projects on track. Built-in reports and dashboards enable early identification of problem areas and bottlenecks.

When availability issues arise or changes occur, rapidly adjust capacity or demand plans. Ensure projects have the resources when and where they’re needed to avoid delays.

Other highlights:

Automatically leverage data from design, engineering, procurement, construction and asset management systems.
Integrate resource management with project scheduling to ensure projects are adequately resourced.
Connect with HRIS systems to automatically update resource data.

Connect key process areas for powerful project solutions

Resource Planning & Management is just one of the essential processes in EcoSys that serve as building blocks for exceptional project and portfolio management.