What functionalities should your resource management software have?
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Estelle
Content manager
July 20, 2023
4 min
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Not a month goes by without a new one coming out Tool of Ressource Management. The solutions to manage your resources are numerous today, so much so that it is a challenge to be able to find the right tool for your consulting firm or ESN.
Napta navigating this ecosystem of Staffing software, we are in a unique position to help you make the right choice.
But we don't believe in the usefulness of an exhaustive comparison of the hundreds of tools that exist on Earth. Instead, our team has put together a limitative list of the functionalities that you absolutely must find in the software intended to support your process of Ressource Management.
Let's explore these three essential features together!
You might be wondering why we're starting this feature selection in Talking about data again and not more operational elements such as planning, for example.
Well, that's because we believe that any consulting firm or NSE that wants master in a professional manner its resources must start by ensuring that they are in a position to collect and then process the very large amount of information from their daily consulting activities.
If we start at the beginning, before even assigning any resource, whether human, technological and/or financial, to customer projects, it is imperative that you know which ones are available and can be mobilized.
Once your project is launched, your information collection does not stop. Quite the opposite.
This type of project systematically leads to late delivery. This category of skills is always lacking. In view of the variety of the Data and the multiplicity of sources, it will be impossible for you to gather and analyze them by hand. This will therefore be, among other things, the role of your software for resource management.
In just a few clicks, your resource management tool should be able to centralize all data relating to your employees and customer projects. Objective: To inform your future decisions based on reliable and up-to-date information.
So no more double entries or errors of any kind, on the availability, skills and interest of your employees for certain types of projects.
Instead, it's up to your ability to offer the most relevant employees to your staffing manager and to react to the slightest deviation from your projects in terms of deadline or budget. And all of that... thanks to data.
Your resource management software should offer you 360° vision of your availability and skills total but also those available and interested in the mission you want to staff.
This functionality, which seems so simple, actually requires a real technical and business understanding on the part of software publishers of Ressource Management in order to provide you with the most complete database of profiles possible, in terms of volume, including freelancers, but also in terms of granularity.
Indeed, the aspirations of employees, the skills gained or even their difficulties experienced on previous missions are all elements that must be collected and integrated into the analysis provided by your management tool. staffing.
As soon as you have the appropriate profiles, you need to be able to simulate staffing scenarios.
These scenarios will then be put to the test of the reality of the field and again, your software of Ressource Management should allow you to adjust your project calendars in real time.
Napta, for example, allows you to change the assignment of your consultants in real time, in particular avoiding possible conflicts between two Staffings competitors in the calendar.
Beyond the process of Staffing by itself, you should opt for a software of Ressource Management that makes the daily life of your consultants easier.
By simplifying the self-assessment of your consultants, communication with their managers via end-of-mission reports or annual evaluations, by allowing them to highlight their wishes for training or development on a particular mission, your staffing tool must be their operational ally.
All data being centralized in the resource management software, you follow the evolution of the skills of your teams thanks to the real-time update of your skills map.
The evolution of your consultants' skills thus becomes an additional element integrated into the reporting provided by your resource management solution alongside the classic performance indicators such as TACE, turnover or even the profitability of your various missions. All of them allow you to measure the ROI of your resource management approach.
Resource management software is a real operational ally and should be seen as it is. And to do this, it is necessary that it provides you with three sets of essential functionalities: the ability to collect and analyze data, the possibility of being able to create project teams. Ad hoc and to then carefully monitor their execution and finally, the real consideration of your consultants and their aspirations and skills.
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