What Is Resource Planning?

When it comes to Project execution, having a good resource planning process is absolutely critical.

Resource planning is the process of identifying different types of business resources, predicting their demand, and allocating them to your project at the right time and cost. It also enables efficient and effective use of resources throughout the organization. Resources can include human resources, equipment, assets and equipment.

Resource Planning organizes, identifies, and lists the resources needed to successfully complete a project. Resources are the assets needed to complete a project. Resources are in a wide range of categories, including equipment, tools, consumables, materials, time, and people.

A good resource plan will show the optimum allocation of resources against projects and activities.

Resource Planning

When it comes to Project execution, having a good resource planning process is absolutely critical.

Resource planning is the process of identifying different types of business resources, predicting their demand, and allocating them to your project at the right time and cost. It also enables efficient and effective use of resources throughout the organization. Resources can include human resources, equipment, assets and equipment.

Resource Planning organizes, identifies, and lists the resources needed to successfully complete a project. Resources are the assets needed to complete a project. Resources are in a wide range of categories, including equipment, tools, consumables, materials, time, and people.

A good resource plan will show the optimum allocation of resources against projects and activities.

Benefits of using CP360 Resource Planning

Getting Stakeholder Buy-In

The ability to convince stakeholders of the need for resources is one of the main advantages of resource planning. Stakeholders are more prominent to provide their approval to resource plans when they are supplied with effective justification and foresight data.

Identifying Resource Gaps

Early in a project, resource planning aids in identifying any discrepancies between what is required and what is available so that corrective action can be taken. It provides a response to the question: Do we have enough people with the necessary abilities to complete the project?

Improving productivity

A resource plan is a tool the project manager may use to make sure the correct people are working on the right projects at the right times. This prevents staff members and subordinates from being overworked and increases their efficiency; resulting in enhanced productivity.

Customer Delight

With resource planning, you can predict and process it more correctly how long the project will take, which allows you to express to your clients when they anticipate receiving their finalized task. This will lead no clients to suffer unease when projects go over budget or are delayed.

Optimizing Costs

The elimination of various hazards related to improperly managing human resources, such as wasted time, money, and effort, is another advantage of resource planning. Planning and carrying out a project with the fewest resources possible is the most prominent method to get hold of money.

Advance planning

This guarantees increased resource attendance while relieving them of any duty or excessive demands and allowing them to schedule their engagements. Resource planning in advance fosters staff accountability. The secret to keeping an operation effective is careful resource planning.

Introduction to Resource Planning

CTP360 Resource Planning Features

  • Ability to Plan different scenarios

  • Team Planning and allocation
  • Collaboration and Sharing Resource Planning Scenarios

  • Identifying Resource Over allocations

  • Supply Vs Demand View

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CTP360

Ability to Plan different scenarios

Ability to Plan different scenarios

Scenario planning is a strategic tool for anticipating and adapting to future changes. It involves creating and analysing different scenarios to understand their impact on your organization.
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CTP360
Team Planning and allocation

Team Planning and allocation

Resource allocation involves identifying and assigning the necessary resources (human, financial, material, and time) to project tasks. Balancing this allocation can be challenging for project managers as they must ensure the right people are assigned tasks without overburdening or underutilizing team members. This tool is thus useful in allocation of resources.
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CTP360

Collaboration and Sharing Resource Planning Scenarios

Collaboration and Sharing Resource Planning Scenarios

In today's dynamic business landscape, organizations face unprecedented uncertainty and demands. They must swiftly realign and adapt to changing strategic goals and priorities. However, limited resources pose a challenge for leaders, who strive to optimize their resource pool to meet project requirements efficiently. Achieving this optimization involves sharing resources between initiatives and fostering collaboration. Therefore, organizations must embark on a journey towards a collaborative environment to drive high-value creation.
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CTP360

Identifying Resource Over allocations

Identifying Resource Over allocations

This tool comes in handy to identify when Over allocation occurs, when an organization has insufficient resources to complete critical tasks within a given timeframe. It means having too much assigned work. Conversely, under allocation refers to not having enough workload for available resources.
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CTP360

Supply Vs Demand View

Supply Vs Demand View

Being able to track cost of value delivered is the foundation to addressing the key question, whether doing a particular project or initiative is going to be profitable to the organisation. In an Agile world this is becoming even more important. Time sheeting provides this easy mechanism to track effort and costs which helps organisations determine the value of functionality or service delivered. It also forms an easy mechanism to capitalise portion of the effort spent.
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