Enhance visibility of your resources with MCS-rm Resource Planner;

Hire businesses today need to maximise expensive resources, with the right people and vehicles being allocated to planned jobs and no key task being overlooked.

The MCS-rm Resource Planner provides a graphical real-time calendar of resource utilisation and enables you to manage, plan and modify your selection of resources according to priorities, concurrent activities and individual task specifications.

Creating your tasks

The MCS-rm Resource Planner enables the depot manager to create a series of tasks, along with estimated timescales in days or hours for items such as a rental agreement or works order. Tasks could include selecting a van or a driver to deliver equipment or recruiting specialist staff to set up equipment at a future event or project.

Defining your resources

To allocate the most appropriate resource for a task, you can pre-define a person’s particular skill set or qualifications or a vehicle’s attributes. According to the task specifications, you can filter on these qualifications to select the best fit. To ensure you assign only qualified resources to a task, the system will flag up if you have selected a resource without the relevant qualification and also warn you when qualifications are due to lapse. This, in turn, increases service quality, fulfils any legal or regulatory requirements and speeds up the complex selection process.

Managing your resources

The MCS-rm Resource Planner provides a graphical real-time view of tasks and resources, so you can visualise what is already allocated and what has yet to be booked. From the to-do list, simply drag and drop an unallocated task to the most suitable resource, taking into account required start date, task duration and best fit from the filtered list of available qualified resources, if a particular skill or certification is required. The contract or workshop number is referenced alongside the selected vehicle or person, while colour-coding helps you see at a glance the type of resource that needs to be allocated.

Resource Optimisation

Through a graphical interface, resources can be managed flexibly in real-time according to the current task and demands by reassigning resource or altering task details, such as start time and duration. These changes are then instantly refreshed in the to-do list and graphical view. You gain visibility of your entire resource utilisation, vital for both top-down planning and task execution.

• Task execution

Make better informed decisions about how staff should spend their time. The MCS-rm Resource Planner prevents over-booking, while the skills database and proactive alerts help you optimise your team’s best attributes and use them in a way that matches their skill sets and qualifications.

• Resource planning

Instantly view your resource allocation across a selected time period. You can track and monitor milestones and deadlines to give you a view of how your resources are performing. You can also forecast future needs and adjust for seasonal demands, so you can recruit more resource ahead of time to cover planned leave, holidays and absences or vehicle servicing. Conversely, you can make reductions when there may be a surplus.

With the MCS-rm Resource Planner in place, you can pinpoint and manage your entire resource capacity usage, availability and demand. Better utilisation results in more output and improved bottom-line profitability.