Resource Planning
Vantagepoint provides powerful, yet easy to use, applications that support your project planning and resource management activities.
Those applications deliver these primary capabilities:
- Project Planning: Project managers can assign employees and generic labor resources, expense types, and consultant types to their projects in the Projects hub and schedule those assignments. They can also enter planned hours for labor resources and planned monetary amounts for expenses and consultants. Planning can begin for a project while you are pursuing the contract and can be carried forward seamlessly when you win the job.
- Resource Management: Resource managers can use Resource View to make sure that their employees are assigned to projects, correctly scheduled, and fully utilized. Project managers can use Project View to get a complete view of staffing and schedules for their projects at any level of the work breakdown structure.
- Plan Reporting: Vantagepoint provides a set of reports for reviewing your plans and tracking actual performance against those plans.
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- Project Planning
On the Plan form in the Projects hub, you can assign employees and generic labor resources, expense types, and consultant types to projects, schedule those assignments, and enter planned hours or monetary amounts. You can enter project planning information not only for won projects but also for projects you are pursuing, so project managers can begin even before the contract is awarded. - Resource Management
The Resource Management feature offers two powerful applications that support the labor management efforts of both resource managers and project managers. - Planning Reports
Vantagepoint planning reports offer multiple views of your project plans and employee assignments. Project managers, team leaders, and other managers in your enterprise can use these reports to review historical, forecast, and performance data by project plan or by resource.
Parent Topic: Concepts