Overview
Visual Planning is a collaborative, flexible, and mobile scheduling platform. Allocate resources and share schedules with colleagues, customers, and partners to work together more efficiently. This project management visual tool is available in: SaaS, On Premise, and Subscription modes.
Visual Planning’s collaborative platform allows you to manage and monitor the progress of your staff, projects, and assets efficiently. Flexible and adaptive, Visual Planning provides solutions to all trades and industries to efficiently manage staff, resources, and equipment. Optimize company productivity regardless of project length, complexity, and/or size with visual planning software.
Key Features For Production Scheduling
Production Manager
- Optimize order management: Centralize all your purchase orders and find them in a few clicks
- Pan your production orders, stations, machines, etc.
- Follow the working time of your teams and assign employees according to their availability and skills
- Forecast and anticipate your needs in logistic resources: Visual Planning helps you optimize the production cycle thanks to its numerous indicators
- Follow also the inventory of parts and materials needed for your work in order to make replenishments on time
- Reorganize activities in real time to respond to emergencies and priorities
- Notify any delays using collaborative or communication tools
Production Team
- Report the hours spent on each task and their progress
- Quickly report any problem encountered to allow the production schedule to be updated
- Access your schedules directly on tablets and smartphones
Key Features For Construction
Managers & Supervisors
- Plan and monitor your projects with precision and details• Maintain up-to-date information from all worksites continually
- Monitor & forecast, planned versus actual schedules, hours entered, and progress made on each project
- Manage teams, vehicles, and machinery allocated to each site and track availability
- Create and maintain your own database of customers, suppliers, and subcontractors
- Manage your subcontractors and suppliers efficiently based on costs, capacity and skills
- Integrate Visual Planning with your existing IT systems: ERP, CRM, and quoting applications
On-site Teams
- Access your schedules from anywhere on mobile devices (tablets or smartphones)
- Update your tasks in real-time to indicate completion or delays
- Generate precise, personalized reports for optimum tracking of your hours and expenses
- Receive e-mail or SMS notifications for any change of schedule
- Share information between connected users using instant collaboration features (chatrooms, forums)
Key Features For Project Management
Project Manager
- Plan and monitor all your projects from a single view
- Review workload and availability of each team member instantly and quickly reallocate them based on their skills and location
- Create project templates and custom validation workflows to help push work in the right direction
- Track overall progress and status in real time on a Gantt chart• Create customized reports to evaluate performance
- Add cost and expenses in tasks or auto-calculate costs based on time spent for an easy budget tracking
- Avoid project delays and respect deadlines by easily identifying the critical path
Project Team
- Report on hours and task progress in two clicks
- Get instantly alerted on project changes made by the project manager
- Integrate your project work with your other tools: e-mails, internet calendars, RSS feeds
- Update project details and documents through your tablet or smartphone when traveling
- Collaborate with other team members in a dedicated project discussion feed
