Resource Planner

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Why do you need Resource Planner?

Laboratories require dynamic strategies to meet the analytical challanges facing today's fast-paced business world
Businesses need to respond quickly to new customer needs and seize market opportunities as they arise
Production / Operations managers require seamless co-ordination of goods production, distribution, transportation and information flow
Quality Managers must make sure that quality data is provided to the business effectively and on-time
Today's modern laboratories are at the centre of such activities and are central to the role of providing: quality results, on-time reporting, efficient use of resources
Laboratory Resource Planning is often an ad-hoc affair based on prior experiences of the Laboratory and Operations / Quality Managers
There is potential for it to be dramatically improved using Laboratory Resource Planner

What is Resource Planner?

Resource Planner is a tool for the Lab Managers which optimally plans resources, tracks resources such as staffs, instruments, and buildings. Resource Planner runs as a standalone module or as a module of Matrix LIMS. Some of the important features of Resource Planner are as follows:

Planning Resources

The Resource Planner can look at the outstanding tasks (workload) in a laboratory and suggest an optimal plan to complete those tasks. It considers most of the parameters and constraints eg. expertise and availability of staff members, instruments, average task completion times, priority of tasks etc.

If planning is being done for a longer term (say six months), this feature could be used to calculate completion times of tasks and check the feasibility of due dates. For short term planning, it could be used to create weekly schedules/worksheets.

Tracking Resources

Resource Planner can be used to track resources such as staff members and instruments. The laboratory managers can look at the availability of staff members and instruments at any time. He/she can also track the expertise of his staff members eg. who can do what test. This information is useful for identifying the training needs of staff.

It can also be used to track the workload eg. work arrived, work in progress and work completed. It presents this information to the Laboratory Managers in an intuitive graphical format.

Other features

It uses advance Artificial Intelligence algorithm to generate plans
It generates high quality graphs and charts
Sets up resource calendars
Creating a plan, managing tasks and resources
Resource utilisation