Meisterplan resource management software

Collaborative Resource Capacity Planning

Confidently plan your experts’ assignments, quickly resolve resource conflicts and make the right hiring decisions.

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The Dedicated Solution for Managing Experts of Different Disciplines across Projects

Poor resource planning can cause unnecessary delays in capital projects.

Ensure you have the right people with the right skills exactly when you need them so that you can deliver on time.

Meisterplan is the dedicated solution for managing experts of multiple disciplines across projects. It complements project scheduling by incorporating the resource perspective into the planning process.

Manage resource utilization

Manage Resource Utilization

Maximize resource utilization and maintain a steady flow for your team in way that’s radically easier than Excel.

Manage Resource Utilization

Create Reliable Schedules

Combine task information and resource data in your planning process to ensure a realistic roadmap for everyone.

Commit to On-Time Delivery

Commit to On-Time Delivery

Anticipate bottlenecks and hiring needs so you can reliably deliver on all of your commitments across projects.

Easily manage a master schedule

Make Informed Decisions

Manage a master schedule and report on capacities, utilization and progress with your single source of truth created collaboratively.

Manage Resource Utilization

Know Exactly Who Is Available

Maintain resource schedules in a designated view that’s quicker and easier to use than Excel.

  • Capture and communicate the amount of time spent on tasks and work packages.
  • Identify conflicts and bottlenecks before they happen and adjust allocations to solve them.
  • Notify stakeholders and team members about project changes so everyone stays on the same page.
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Handle Personnel Information

Import employee data from your HR software, or enter it directly into Meisterplan.

  • Quickly the capture skills, departments, costs and working hours of all resources.
  • Use calendars from multiple countries to account for different working hours and holidays.
  • Enter individual absences such as sick days, planned vacations and business trips.

Create Reliable Schedules

Make High-Level Plans

Consider resource availabilities and dependencies across all teams as part of your planning.

  • Visualize all your projects with an interactive view of your entire portfolio.
  • Quickly see when resources are overbooked.
  • Simulate “what-if” scenarios to test the impact of changes.
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Collaborate on Staffing Requests

Use Meisterplan to make confident staffing decisions and know who to commit to which project.

  • Leverage the Team Planner view for a visual overview at the right level of granularity.
  • Communicate with project managers about their resource needs to find the best people for the job.
  • Consider the real availability of employees, including run-the-business commitments and absences.

Commit to On-Time Delivery

Analyze Resource Data

Visualize your portfolio data with custom pivot reports to set realistic expectations on project delivery.

  • Get insight on how much capacity is going to which projects.
  • Analyze trends across your organization to hire based on demonstrated need.
  • See allocation costs and determine if you will stay within budget.
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Actuals Financials Reports

Monitor Portfolio Budgets

Keep an eye on the financial status of your whole project portfolio.

  • Prepare financial data in a convenient report and compare planned and actual costs.
  • Review the progress of your projects and determine if they will stay within budget.
  • Learn from past data to continuously improve your plans.

Make Informed Decisions

Keep Everyone Connected

Get current and reliable data while all teams continue working with the tools they prefer.

  • Import and integrate the necessary data from other tools such as Primavera P6 and SAP.
  • Further analyze your data by connecting the BI tools that you already use.
  • Ensure that all information in Meisterplan is accurate and communicated transparently using features like the Change Log and Allocation Comments.
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Easily Spot Allocation Issues

See which resources are under or overallocated in a straightforward report.

  • Know which teams are overloaded and which ones still have free capacity.
  • Identify the critical roles that are causing bottlenecks.
  • Drill down by department or role for a more detailed understanding.

Communicate Your Company Roadmap

Engage all stakeholders with a clear visual representation of your organization’s roadmap, including inter-project dependencies.

  • Clearly demonstrate which milestones in which projects have an effect on other efforts.
  • Group the Roadmap to display your portfolio according to business goal, department, project manager or any other integral field.
  • Download a ready-to-use picture to quickly communicate to other stakeholders.
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