5 scheduling nightmares: why you shouldn’t use excel for planning resources

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5 Scheduling Nightmares: Why You Shouldn’t Use Excel for Planning Resources So why do so many firms rely on primitive Excel spreadsheet software to manage highly-important and repetitive resource scheduling? Here are 5 nightmares you can blame on this internal inefficiency-and 5 ways you can rise to the challenge better. Simple Schedule Changes in Excel Drag You to a Grinding Halt 1. A tool that allows enterprise-wide scheduling and an easy-to-use visual drag-drop facility that moves components around as best suits each project SOLUTION: Spreadsheets Force You to Manage Multiple Silos of Schedules Across Departments 2. Provide access to multiple users throughout your organization through a centralized system SOLUTION: An Inability to Quickly and Easily Search for the Perfect Person for the Job 3. A simple facility for enterprise-wide searches in the blink of an eye. SOLUTION: It’s Nearly Impossible to Perform Effective Forecasting and Other Reporting 4. Acquire business intelligence for forecasting capacity utilization and resource requirements. SOLUTION: Excel Confines Information Exchange to a File-Based Schedule System 5. Centralize enterprise-wide data in one single place SOLUTION: End Result? Saved Time Saved Work Improved Communication Saviom’s “Resource Planning and Scheduling Software” is the answer! Email us at [email protected] for a live Demo/Free Trial Doing More with Less Resources

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5 Scheduling Nightmares: Why You Shouldn’t Use Excel for Planning Resources

So why do so many firms rely on primitive Excel spreadsheet software to manage highly-important and repetitive resource scheduling? Here are 5 nightmares you can blame on this internal inefficiency-and 5 ways you can rise to the challenge better.

Simple Schedule Changes in Excel Drag You to a Grinding Halt1.

A tool that allows enterprise-wide scheduling and an easy-to-use visual drag-drop facility that moves components around as best suits each project

S O L U T I O N :

Spreadsheets Force You to Manage Multiple Silos of Schedules Across Departments

2. Provide access to multiple users throughout your organization through a centralized system

S O L U T I O N :

An Inability to Quickly and Easily Search for the Perfect Person for the Job

3. A simple facility for enterprise-wide searches in the blink of an eye.

S O L U T I O N :

It’s Nearly Impossible to Perform Effective Forecasting and Other Reporting

4. Acquire business intelligence for forecasting capacity utilization and resource requirements.

S O L U T I O N :

Excel Confines Information Exchange to a File-Based Schedule System5. Centralize enterprise-wide data in one

single place

S O L U T I O N :

End Result?

Saved Time

Saved Work

Improved Communication

Saviom’s “Resource Planning and Scheduling Software” is the answer!

Email us at [email protected] for a live Demo/Free Trial

Doing More with Less Resources