Resource Management: Short-Term Planning and Optimization

Department managers can view the capacity of their resources in the Resource Gantt Chart.

Using a simple drop-down list, you can select exactly how you want to view capacity for your personnel.

When you expand a resource line, you can see the projects to which an individual employee is assigned. You can move these tasks around graphically, or you can change the view to numbers, and then add the number of hours to the individual project or task.

The resource overview is dynamic, which means that you can drag any column in the grid to the free area. This enables you to view the available capacity according to any grouping that you selected. You can also switch the view to plan by day, week, or month (shown in the following figure).

The solution enables a department manager to view resources in different ways from one workspace. By selecting a view in the drop-down list, you can get resource planning details for employees, for instance, an Absence overview as shown in the following example.