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Resource Management
Optimizing Resource Utilization
Effective Resource Management increases profitability by optimizing utilization and minimizing bench time, and generates goodwill and loyalty among your staff that translates to competitive advantages in recruiting and retaining the best talent.
QuickArrow provides professional services organizations with a powerful set of resource management tools that enable project managers and resource managers to quickly search for and assign the right resources to projects based on their job roles, skill sets, bill rates, certifications, location, and availability.
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Benefits
- Maximize resource utilization
- View resource schedules and availability in real-time
- Save time assigning resources to projects
- Increase accuracy of resource planning and forecasting
- Create more effective and profitable project teams through appropriate staffing
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QuickArrow offers services professionals the visibility needed to accurately assess resource utilization, forecasting, and staffing requirements for optimal resource planning.
KEY FEATURES
Custom Profiles
QuickArrow provides complete insight into your resource skills, certifications, and
availability within a location
or across locations – improving efficiencies in project planning and staffing.
- A configurable skill set description pool lets you customize your organization's resource view with your specific skill descriptions and business terminology.
- All resource profiles and job roles are housed in one central, searchable archive.
- Access individual travel preferences, contact information, skills, certifications, department and location information through a single view.
Flexible Resource Search Engine
QuickArrow contains intuitive resource scheduling interfaces to ensure that the right resources are staffed on the right projects, at the right rates.
- Resource search engine enables you to instantly locate resources that fit availability, client and project requirements.
- Search and schedule based on multiple selection criteria such as job role, skill, certification, travel preferences, location, availability.
- Point-and-click resource scheduling system provides real-time revenue forecasts.
Management Reports
QuickArrow's insightful resource management software tools help you understand bench strengths, resource utilization, and resource realization.
- Realization reports to ensure resources are deployed profitably.
- Resource utilization views enable your firm to proactively respond to skill and job role utilization trends.
- Customize your utilization rules:
- standard work hours per week;
- work days per week;
- company and department holiday schedule;
- utilization goals tailored to individual resources.
- Resource Monitor provides snapshots of:
- unassigned project summaries to quickly staff open tasks;
- project opportunities in your sales pipeline to view upcoming staffing requirements and soft book resources as desired;
- project completion rates and project staffing summaries, increasing your knowledge of upcoming resource availability.
Partner and Subcontractor Management
QuickArrow's resource management software allows you to manage the processes associated with your partners, contractors, and offshore resources.
- Include partner resource profiles in your database to broaden searches when internal resources are fully utilized.
- Integrate partners and suppliers with your resource pool, to extend resource planning and book activities to external resources.
- Service partners maintain skill set profiles and availability schedules for partner level resource searches.
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