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Transport Planning

Among our clients, we can count many transport companies that use PlanningPME to manage the drivers' timetable. The major improvement PlanningPME brings compared with other planning softwares is that you can couple drivers and trucks. This way, you always know where the driver are and which truck/bus he is using.

 As you can add additional fields, you can manage your vehicles' lifetime, repairings...

Even recurring tasks are supported.

Does this planning templates correspond to what you are looking for?

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Medical planning

Here is a planning template made according a client's planning. PlanningPME is used by many health companies as doctor/physician practices, hospitals, retirement homes...

The common points of these activities is that it is crucial not to run out of personel. Thus, presence and days off management is an important matter to deal with and PlanningPME is here to help. But even material resources can be treated.

For example, this hospital decided to use PlanningPME exclusively to manage the bedrooms booking. Patients occupation is reported on the planning board and several indications can be dispayed according to the needs: the specialist in charge, the length of the treatment, special observations...

Together with this room planning, our client created another planning to manage the hospital staff. This one is dedicated to the days off, holidays and absences.

If this brief example gave you some ideas, download the trial version of PlanningPME today.

Do not hesitate to ask for an online demo.

Education planning

Training sector is a rising activity. As it grows, it becomes more and more complicated to manage. PlanningPME is the solution chosen by many education centers to plan efficiently the human resources, the rooms and the material. 

Here on the following picture, you can see how our client decided to manage its company. Both rooms and teachers are displayed at the same time on the planning board. Lessons are always linked to a room so that double booking is impossible. It is possible to add special material as books, paperboard, projectors...

A different view allows you to see your different classes in order to know precisely which lessons took place for them, if a course has been cancelled...

It can interesting to assign skills to your teachers so that an englisk lesson can't be assigned to a psychology teacher. To do this you just need to create a new skill by clicking on Data --> Skill and right click on Add Skill. Then assign it to a human resource. If you assign a task to a teacher that doesn't have the skill. This message appears:

In that case, the software enables you to sort your teachers by skills that you look for by clicking on Edit --> Availability.

Do you think Planning template is made for you?

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What is your version of PlanningPME?

If you need our support service, most of the time, we will ask you the version of PlanningPME you have.

So, to inform our team of your version, go to the menu ? -> About PlanningPME.

Then, you will have this window displayed:

From here, you have access to:

- your version type: comercialized or trial version

- your version of PlanningPME: 4.0.2.65 in this example

- the name of your computer: ts-caroline in this example

Please, send us those information for any support request.

Production planning

As many of our clients currently do, you can manage your manufacturing site with PlanningPME. Let's take a look to how they do.

On this picture you can see the organization of the human ressources (61) according to their skills in teams that correspond to the steps of production (research department, machining, boiler works...)

Returning to a more precise view, each task of the employees are clearly displayed.

Then, they listed all the tasks possible for this result. The aim is to be able to see what has to be done, for which client and share it with the rest of the team. This way, everyone can be aware of the production process.

You can also organize your production according to projects. Whatever the way you want to proceed, PlanningPME will fit your needs.

Does this planning template meet your requirements?

 Download the trial version of PlanningPME today.

Do not hesitate to ask for an online demo.

Security Planning

Here is an example of a security company planning. It aims to show the way PlanningPME can be used in that kind of activity. Many security companies already use PlanningPME.

First of all, the software can adapt itself to the particularity of your activity. As an example, you can create/modify the different time slots to fit the special working hours of your employees. Special costs can be assigned according to working hours. You can do this by clicking on Tools --> Options --> Timetables

Now that the timetable is done, you can assign missions to your employees. You can see on the following picture that the view is clean thank to color differentiation.

You can also check your activities by clients. To this purpose, there is a special view named "client view" which shows the different tasks by clients on a planning. This way you have a precise view of the activities fulfilled for each client and even edit statistics for a better understanding.

Comments can even be done to precise special events or conditions about the task. Newly released feature allows you to send planning updates by e-mail to your team in real time.

Is this planning template correspond to your company?

 Download the trial version of PlanningPME today.

Do not hesitate to ask for an online demo.

Track the time of your employees easily thanks to statistics!

You can know at any time the number of hours or days spent each day, week or month.

How?

You have some statistics functions in PlanningPME in order to track time of your employees.

Go to the menu Tools -> Statistics:

Then Select the different options and press the button "Statistics":

On the example above, John worked 11 hours 1/2 on June and is busy 11% of his time.

You can then copy and paste the results on a spreadsheet or export them to a HTML page or print them.

Know more about human resources management within the planning software PlanningPME.

Follow the workload scheduling at any time within PlanningPME and improve your project planning

How?

Directly in the planning board!

Indeed, you can know at any time the workload of your resources or of a whole team.

Place your mouse on the resource and check the information on the yellow pop up:

TIP: At the bottom right corner of the planning board, you have the total workload for all the resources displayed on the screen on the time period selected:

Create Job contracts for your employees: full time, part time...

Here is the way to create employee agreement:

Go to the tab "Slots" in the resource card.

The following window appears.

For each resource, you can create a specific contract.

On the schedule, the non working periods appear in grey. Ex : Jean began working on the 2nd of May.

Isn't Human resources management easier now?

What is the process to migrate your Access database ( pp file
PlanningPME) to another more powerful database such as SQL Server?

For performances reasons, you need to change your database. Indeed, MS Access (pp file) is not powerful enough for the use you have of the planning.

Here are the different steps to migrate your database once you puchased this service.

- Select the database you want to run PlanningPME on: SQL Server or My-SQL

- Install PlanningPME on the database wanted via the installation scripts on our website or we can also provide this service

- Send us your planning so that we can first test the migration

- Fix a date with our IT the day you are ready to change the database

- Send us your last updated planning (pp file) and we will send you back a back up of your planning on SQL Server or My SQL 2 hours later

- Restore the back up file

Feel free to call us : +33 (0)1 69 47 10 00 or send us an email to know more about our database migration service.