Capacity and production planning software for medium-sized companies
Rillsoft Project supports medium-sized companies with project-oriented production planning, resource planning and capacity balancing across orders and departments. The software is particularly suitable when orders are planned like projects and personnel, machines, dates and feedback have to be looked at together.
The aim of using the planning tool is to make order processing transparent across all company areas. Higher transparency optimizes throughput times and improves adherence to deadlines.
What software is suitable for production planning in medium-sized companies?
For medium-sized companies a production planning software is suitable that maps orders, resources, capacities and dates together. Rillsoft Project complements ERP or production systems where project-related resource planning, capacity planning and multi-project management are required.
- Central and professional management of projects based on a database
- Capacity and resource planning across projects
- Internet-capable: users from different locations plan and exchange information via the project portfolio management software
- Project applications can be combined with running projects into flexible portfolios
- Multi-user capable with simultaneous access to the resource pool and portfolio
- Administrator can define what each employee may see or edit
- Outlook connection so every employee receives their tasks directly in Outlook
- Vacation planning with approval workflow
- Feedback and time tracking
Production planning software can be used to optimize production-related project and order processes by planning and coordinating resources, machines and labor efficiently.
Resource management
- Manage employees and their stored data. In addition to basic personal data this includes contact data, skill level and assignment to managers and team
- Restrict change rights to the employee’s own team while providing broad read access
- Few people need to change, but everyone can read the planning
Flexible project planning
- Gantt chart, network diagram representation and project structuring
- Each step can be described
- Templates that can be adapted to project size and complexity
- Automatic scheduling (dependencies and interactions between resources in multi-project), the software warns about time and resource conflicts in the project plan
- Projects can be assigned to an organizational hierarchy and a project portfolio hierarchy
- Multi-project management - several projects for several departments
- All changes are logged by the system
- Common standard export interfaces and data exchange: MS Project, Excel, Outlook, CSV, XML
Capacity balancing
- Capacity planning is generated from the overall planning
- Dynamic evaluation by different criteria, e.g. by period, project, employee
- Overview of currently available employees, also across teams
Capacity balancing shows whether the available resources match the planned order load. This allows bottlenecks to be detected early — before delivery dates are confirmed or additional orders are scheduled.
Resource planning
- Cross-team planning
- Filtering by resources and projects
- Which employee is involved in which projects
- Warning on resource overload
- Assignment or withdrawal of employees from activities in the running project, with consequence identification
Resource planning in production planning software enables the efficient assignment of resources such as machines, labor and materials to different production tasks and projects in order to optimize capacity utilization and minimize bottlenecks. In production-related project environments it is also relevant which projects run in parallel and which departments or teams are loaded as a result.
Time tracking and performance control
- Time tracking is visible per employee and provides feedback on outstanding entries
- Employees may only book on tasks for which they are scheduled. Hours reported on a project must be approved by the project manager
- Trends, developments or specific aspects of the project (e.g. current status) can be evaluated clearly
- The payment plan is stored individually and compared against the resource planning
Time tracking in production planning software allows accurate recording of employee work hours, supports payroll, optimizes resource utilization and ensures compliance with working time rules.
Export to Outlook
Project tasks of individual employees can be transferred as appointments to their Outlook calendar.
Automatic email notification of employees
Email notifications are triggered by various project events. For short-term project changes, for example, the notification system creates an email message and sends it to employees scheduled in the affected tasks. If a scheduled employee fails to report progress on time, an email reminder is sent.
Email notifications in production planning software inform relevant employees about changes in the production workflow, upcoming orders or critical events to keep production running smoothly and efficiently.
Vacation planning
Before approving a vacation request, you can check whether there are overlaps between the requested vacation days and scheduled tasks.
Vacation planning in production planning software helps companies manage employee vacation, coordinate vacation requests and ensure that production continues smoothly.
Software behind it and related views
Rillsoft Project complements ERP or production systems with project-related resource, capacity and multi-project planning. Related views in the medium-sized segment: the application report project and resource planning in production and the cluster multi-project management in SMEs.