Work Planning & Budgeting


The Work Planning and Budgeting module manages multi-year annual work plans. Plans are developed for each activity, work units and infrastructure inventories are identified, and a level of service is determined, so annual workload can be established. Average Daily Production (ADP) estimates how many work units can be accomplished each day, and total workdays are calculated.

The quantity, type and cost of labor, equipment, material, and contractor resources needed to perform one day’s work are captured, crew compositions are identified, and annual budgets are determined. Work Distribution Scheduling determines when and how much work should be done, by month, so the user can balance work scheduling to insure maximum resource utilization.

The module supports "what if" scenarios; the user can modify infrastructure inventories, level of service, average daily production, resource requirements, and increase or decrease resource costs by percentage to analyze the effects.

Numerous management reports exist to evaluate resource usage, planned versus actual costs and performance, crew scheduling, comparison of planned usage of resources against available resources, and more.




Module highlights:

     •Estimates future workloads/budgets based on inventories, effort level and resource costs.
     •Organizes resources (labor, equipment, material, and contractors) throughout the year to match the plan.
     •Schedules work that is both preventative and responsive.
     •Controls work by tracking resources used (cost, hours, units), work accomplished and location (or asset) worked.
     •Performs planned versus actual comparison of work done against established performance standards.
     •Performs cost accounting of maintenance activities within the agency.
     •Performs monthly workload distribution by balancing work with resource (i.e., labor, equipment, material, and contractors) availability.
Work Planning & Budgeting Module