Accelerating and Automating the Productivity of Your Workforce

Increasing your utilization levels in the workforce

When you’re a sports person you really want to make sure that your body and physique is up to shape and is achieving maximum results. At the end of the day constantly improving and being the best at your sport is the main aim of the game. But if a less then favourable outcome does arise (i.e. you don’t come first in that race or lose in straight sets in a tennis match) you would want to make to focus on your weaker areas and improve them for next time. However, that’s easier said than done. It’s sometimes almost impossible to tell whether it was your lack of fitness in a certain part of your body or maybe a delay in reaction time that caused you to come second. Optimally, you would want a tool or gizmo that could analyse your weak points so you can push for further improvement.

It’s the same in the workplace

Now treat your team or department as a competing athlete. You’re constantly competing with external competitors and internal teams and departments to achieve better results. But to be the best, you want to make sure everyone is pulling in their weights worth. Achieving and then monitoring such activity is not an easy task. In a common workplace situation one resource will be under-loaded with work and have many hours to spare, while at the same time another resource can be swamped with several bookings at once.  With such a disparate spread in work levels, it’s very difficult to become the efficient vehicle that we aim to be.

Saviom’s Utilization Analysis

Being able to track utilization levels of each individual employee and then all of them collectively is a huge asset when using Saviom’s utilization functionalities. Utility levels can be measured on a daily, weekly, monthly or even on a quarterly basis giving you a detailed insight at the hours spent by staff with the help of our resource scheduling software. Each cell is also colour coded according to utilization levels with red representing low utility, yellow mediocre and green showing optimal or over-utilization. We’ve also provided graphs to further improve your analysis and which will look great for when you’re generating those reports too!

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Project Resource Management: The best way to get things done!

Finding your resources in one clean shot

We’ve all used yellow pages at some point in our lifetime to look for certain businesses to fulfil our needs. Let’s say you search for a plumber for fixing a leaking sink, you will find dozens of advertised companies that you could choose from. But after that, there’s very little to distinguish between them (apart from maybe choosing a more local company) with the remainder of the research having to be conducted manually i.e. calling for a quote, finding out their availability. It’s almost impossible to find out such specifically defined information in one simple search action. It would be a dream if anything like that were achieved!

It’s the same at work

Unfortunately we face similar problems at our workplace as well. If you are or have been given a role of a project manager you must have faced the difficulty of choosing the right resources for your particular project. This is very problematic if the companies hundreds of resources are located across the country. What makes it even more difficult is that by the time you find out whether the person you’ve assigned is suitable or not, it’s too late to replace them with anyone else. In that process you eventually get pigeon-holed into selecting only a select few resources that you trust, barely utilizing any of the other employees. So what’s the solution to such a conundrum? What you need, is a hyper-advanced yellow pages directory that has information of all your own company’s resources! A dynamic project resource management software that suites your requirements can do wonders to your projects.

Saviom’s Search Capabilities

Now, I don’t have a solution to effectively search for your local plumber but Saviom’s search box capabilities comes very close in resolving your resource searching woes. We take great pride in our powerful search box that gives you the option to search from 65 different search options. This allows you to practically pinpoint the suitable resource in one hit. Some of you might be thinking what will I do with 65 different search options? But not to worry, you can pick and choose the relevant criteria and place it within the software search box which keeps your resource searching process effective yet simple. Saviom's project resource management software enables you to manage single or multiple projects in an efficient way.

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Proactive Resource Management Important for finishing a project within Budget and Time

Proactive resource management is the effective allocation of a company's resources whenever required. These resources largely include human skills, finance, production resources, and information technology. Resource management for the engineering sector is difficult as the evaluation of resources has their own limitations in terms of its approach, and hence qualitative framework of the project may not stand true to the forecasting.  Proactive resource management as the term suggests also includes active planning, scheduling tasks, allocating the required resources, and managing the budget.

To comprehend the role of proactive resource management, one needs to understand the core objective of the given engineering project. For example: In order to set up a project for an engineering company, the project manager has to make plans and execute operations, manage the schedule, and ensure timely completion of the project. Citing a real life scenario,  a project manager for a multi-million dollar water treatment plant that needs to be set up for an industrial giant, required 2 architects and 5 electrical engineers to lay the ground work for the project and to proceed with the final plan of action. Engineering projects such as water treatment plants are strictly time bound, hence getting the right solutions or resources on the right time is crucial. Owing to the lack of appropriate resources a project can hit a deadlock. This deadlock can lead to financial losses, and time spent on planning mechanical and technical framework can go futile.

The availability of the right kind resources has a great impact on the smooth functioning of the project. Proactive management of the resources is the ideal way to get the tasks accomplished, however let us take a look at the issues that are likely to crop up in the absence of a solution to find proactive resources.

Issues that arise due to the lack of sufficient solution to proactively find the resources required for a project:

• Since time plays a vital role, the lack of availability of resources leads to untimely delay, which in turn leads to increase in cost.
• Utilizing resources from existing projects, and hampering both the ongoing and new project.
• Hiring extra resources to meet the urgent requirement. Also, due to the hasty decision of hiring quick resources, companies end up paying more, this greatly affects the overall budget of the project.

The best way to counter the above-mentioned situation is to optimize the process operation using a Resource Management Tool. The resource management software should have the ability to predict the capacity of the resources along with their competencies. It should have also capability to forecast demand based on current projects and future projects in the pipeline. The gap between capacity and demand help companies in forecasting future staffing needs. Such software has the ability to analyze the amount of work, and allocating them to the right resources based on their skill set required for the project.

Saviom Resource Management is the right kind of solution provider that helps companies manages resources by providing them dynamic resource management solutions. The key to effective resource management for any organizations is the ability to forecast the future demand and supply of resources. Saviom helps companies organize data on demand through various visual and other media. The company has been helping various industrial stalwarts with project budgets, resource automation, streamlining the operations and capitalizing on its assets.

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