While you don’t know what you don’t know, resource management plans eliminate that issue when scheduling an organization’s resources and activities. How much finances, time, personnel, and equipment is your company utilizing daily? Resource management plans enable an organization to track vital numbers. Within the scope of sustainability, an organization also considers its current and future environmental impact.
For example, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), a global non-profit organization whose mission is to advance conservation, has updated resource management plans under Conservation by Design, a framework to support the staff of TNC in developing and improving conservation strategies. They include nine modules: integrating equity, retrospective, planning scope, interested parties, defining objectives, situation analysis, strategy selection, theory of change, and monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
World Resources Institute (WRI), a global research non-profit organization that studies sustainable practices, has annual sustainability dashboards and shares its sustainability dashboard methodology.
Below are a few reasons for the importance of resource management plans:
Cost Control Thanks to Resource Management Plans
Resource management plans help organizations better monitor how much they spend and what they purchase. They can more effectively divide costs and avoid redundancies — whether for processes, materials, or labor. They gain overall insights on where to spend more or less.
One challenge in today’s resource management plans is poor collaboration between teams that may not know what others are spending, resulting in duplicated efforts.
Optimized Resource Allocation
Organizations can reduce waste through resource management plans. Planned, effective resource management means allocating resources efficiently, avoiding underutilization or overallocation in which resources are spread too thinly across various responsibilities.
A lack of real-time data can hinder progress. Organizations may rely on outdated, inaccurate data that showcase an incomplete picture of resource allocation, costs, or other factors. Businesses waste time and struggle to respond quickly to issues and concerns.
Effective Decision-Making
Resource management plans give project managers a clear picture of all resources. This enables better, more informed decision-making on projects and a quicker response.
Managers and teams may too easily face misaligned priorities without a clear view of all projects. They may give certain projects more attention and resources than necessary and vice versa.
Maximized Productivity
Cost control, optimized resource allocation, and effective decision-making benefits of resource management plans contribute to maximized productivity. Based on the data overview, teams can balance workloads so that no one is overburdened.
A common setback in current resource management plans is manual processes, such as spreadsheets. These can be prone to human error and hinder timely progress.
Gomocha support for resource management plans includes:
Access Tailored Insights
Generate custom reports tailored to your business metrics and terminology through efficient planning thanks to Gomocha’s FSM technology. With Service Performance Indicators, you zero in on what matters regarding resource utilization, availability, and efficiency.
Get Quick Business Insights
Get real-time asset data updates and streamlined information access for field operators. Make informed decisions based on accurate data. Outdated asset information wastes time and frustrates techs. Mobile access to real-time data speeds up job completion and improves service quality.
Optimize Your Service Routes
Separate trips drain resources. Automated scheduling combines tasks, slashing travel time and boosting productivity while matching the right tech to each job.
Sometimes, the wrong field tech gets the wrong job. It’s the nature of scheduling. You’re at the mercy of who you know is available. That leads to a time-consuming schedule and busy work where you can never fully catch up.
With Gomocha, you’ll automate scheduling based on availability, distance, SLA agreements, and field tech capabilities, removing the need to spend all that time managing the schedule. The result? A fully optimized schedule and jobs assigned to the right person…every time.
Collaborate on Efficiency Development
Gomocha’s FSM technology integrates with other business systems. Build your dream features right into the platform. With mobile apps, workers can update on progress on the spot. Off-the-shelf solutions often fall short. Co-created features fill the gaps perfectly.
Learn more about what Gomocha support can do for resource management plans in our blog.