Optimize your resource utilization with Microsoft Dynamics 365
Effective resource management can help your organization deliver better customer outcomes by assigning the right resources across every project. A resource utilization solution powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365 and delivered by Rand Group includes powerful resource management capabilities that empower project-based organizations with the tools needed to optimize resource scheduling and assignment, increase visibility through intelligence scheduling, and maximize billable hours.
Streamline resource management and make smarter workforce decisions
Effective resource management is essential for organizations looking to optimize profit margins, improve billable utilization, retain top talent, and increase client satisfaction. However, many organizations struggle to successfully optimize resource utilization as they primarily depend on spreadsheets. A resource utilization solution built on Microsoft and delivered by Rand Group is a powerful tool that provides project managers with a fast and easy way to assign people to projects to ensure the right people are working on the right projects. Managers have access to up-to-date data that helps them understand demand, capacity, skills, and availability to identify the optimal resource mix through every stage of the project.
By strategically managing your resources, you can deliver successful projects on time and on budget. Rand Group is your partner to implement a powerful resource utilization solution, tailor it to your unique business processes, integrate it with the rest of your technology stack including your Dynamics 365 ERP system, and train your users for long-term success.
Intelligent resource scheduling and assignments
Easily create and maintain resource profiles and rate skills based on your unique business needs. Then use scheduling dashboards to align the right person with the appropriate skills and availability to the right project to improve quality of work and resource utilization rates while staying on budget.
Future staffing requirements forecasts
Forecast resource allocation, project budgets, costs, and expenses to better anticipate resourcing needs. With real-time visibility into project forecasts, your organization can better prepare for future staffing needs to ensure optimal resource utilization and billing to optimize profitability.
Centralize resource management
Our powerful resource utilization solution unifies all resource management processes into a single connected solution. Seamlessly maintain resource profiles and automate assignment requests and bookings across all your locations with a single, up-to-date, global pool of resources.
Maximize billable hours
The number of billable hours for each employee directly correlates to your organization’s profitability as maximizing the number of billable hours per employee is critical to maintaining cash flow and increasing profits. Misaligning resources can lead to downtime that negatively impacts billable hours as well as your organization’s ability to successfully deliver projects on time and on budget.
With a resource utilization solution from Rand Group, you can minimize downtime and maximize billable hours by:
- Creating and maintaining robust resource profiles that track skills most relevant to your organization
- Leveraging the unified scheduling engine to make smarter assignments for optimal execution of project delivery needs
- Using resource reconciliation and utilization tools to reduce scheduling gaps and downtime
- Simplifying timesheet management and expense tracking to accurately capture all billable hours
Achieve complete visibility into resource utilization
Maintaining accurate, widely available, up-to-date status information is vital to optimizing resource utilization. A resource utilization solution built on Dynamics 365 and delivered by Rand Group includes a resource manager dashboard that provides a visual overview of resource demand and utilization throughout the organization. Dynamics charts and reports provide real-time, actionable insights so project managers can adapt quickly to changing business conditions.
Seamlessly monitor the following information:
- Active resource requests by role or project
- Resource demand by role or project
- Resource requirements that haven’t been met
- Billable utilization by role
- Forecasts for future resourcing needs
Extend your resource utilization solution
Rand Group offers various solutions that are tailored to your unique needs. Our team of software engineers and industry experts will help you evaluate and select the best solution for your organization, then implement and customize it based on your specific processes. Explore our other solutions below to support your project management operations.
Project Accounting
Ensure timely, accurate billing with a project accounting solution from Rand Group. Manage your project accounting with higher accuracy and recognize revenue on time while unlocking unparalleled control over billing and subscription management.
Timesheet Management
Leverage a timesheet management solution to increase billable hours and boost employee productivity. Easily automate and simplify the time tracking cycle, including reporting, submission, and approval, while integrating with project accounting and invoicing.
Dynamics 365 Project Operations
Dynamics 365 Project Operations is an enhanced project management solution for project-centric businesses. This powerful tool connects the entire project cycle from sales to financials to optimize resources and drive project success.
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