Resource Management Overview

Vision's Resource Management application gives you control over resource utilization, budgeting, and planning in a dynamic business environment. Designed to work directly with Project Planning, Resource Management provides immediate feedback as changes and updates are made to plans. Use this information to evaluate impacted resources, and their affected utilization and budgets.

For example, project managers must update their plans on a monthly basis. They must look at the planned assignment and determine if the future uses of resources are correct. If not, the project managers either make changes to the future planned hours or adjust the current resource assignments. As these changes are made, Resource Management provides the project managers with feedback on how the project estimates at completion compare to the project budgets. They can then evaluate what work remains and identify the true future resource requirements for their projects.

Because project managers can view resources from a resource-centric view that shows all of their future assignments, they can identify over-utilized and under-utilized employees, which may cause the project Estimate at Completion to exceed its budget. The Vision Administrator may set up alerts in Vision that display whenever Estimate at Completion exceeds its budget.

Note that the Resource Management Resource Utilization and Generic Assignments searches are not related to the Project Planning Resource Search feature. Data within the Resource Management searches do not apply to the Project Planning Resource Search.