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Old 06-05-2014, 07:56 AM
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Scheduling Multiple Crews/Men - Software/App?

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I am brand new to the forum - Anyways, forgive me for not browsing, hopefully this will be an easy answer for someone.

We (Livewire) run a services company in Richmond, VA. We have Four crews and two single services technicians. I am running into a headache using Google to schedule them all.
  1. It's hard to manage them day to day with a lot of "small" jobs.
  2. It's tough, if not impossible, to see who is "available" without knowning off memory.
  3. It does not track technician/team project location easily. ie, scheduling projects while in the same area.

Does anyone know of a standalone software or application that would do this? I have been using a primitive magnet/chalk board to "take-away" techs as they are utilized - It's 2014 for crying out loud!!!

Help.
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Old 06-05-2014, 12:15 PM
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We use practically the cloud based solution from Replicon. The hassle free tool is featured with the user friendly and calendar based interface which makes it an intuitive tool to work with. The best part of this tool is its hassle free and creates a streamlined platform to work with.
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Old 07-09-2014, 01:06 AM
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Hello

Hi Scott,
After going through your requirements i would suggest you to try eResource Scheduler Software by Enbraun. They have been providing resource scheduling solutions since 2010. Its a great tool to manage resources in real-time.
Not only this, you can easily track your available or utilized resource with the help of its 2 in 1 report i.e. Utilization/Availability Report.
Let me list out some of the basic features for you:

- Drag n Drop Scheduling (you can book any resource against any project by simply dragging your mouse pointer in front of the resource. And you can drop any booking to any resource as per your requirement).

- Recurrence Booking (you can recur as many bookings as you can).

- Configurable Project Fields (you can rename fields of your project as per your requirement)

- Import/Export through MS Excel (No need to add details one by one. Make a list in MS Excel Sheet and import it as it is)

- Configurable Reports (This application generates 3 reports i.e. utilization, forecasting and financial report)

and much much more...
The best thing is you can evaluate its features free for 14 days. Or you can opt for a FREE personal web demo in your environment.
Here is the domain : eresourcescheduler.com

I hope that helps.
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Old 07-19-2014, 07:14 AM
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You can try [URL="http://www.proofhub.com/?ref=nan"]Proofhub[/URL] for your work. This tool help you to organize and manage your tasks easily.
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Old 06-12-2015, 04:32 AM
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Hi Scott,

You should check out Resource Guru [url]http://resourceguruapp.com[/url] - it's a cloud based team calendar that we built it to solve this exact problem.

There's a simple to use drag and drop calendar that lets you manage your teams bookings by project and client. You'll also be able to set availability for each of your teammembers, so you won't have to rely on memory anymore!

I hope it helps
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