People Planner offers full employee scheduling functionality. The scheduling functionality enables Resource Managers and employees to make appointments for themselves and others in a web-based People Planner interface. You can schedule appointments on an hourly basis. People Planner also includes an integration to MS Outlook. This way you can avoid using two systems for planning and your resource plans are directly available to your employees in the Outlook calendar that they already use.
People’s schedules are always up to date
Introducing a resource planning solution in your organisation typically adds a lot of value for management in terms of providing corporate overviews of the resource situation, but a second benefit is of course that people’s own schedules are always up to date. With People Planner, employees can either view their personal schedule in a web-based People Planner interface or their Outlook calendar.
Involve people in the planning process
Some organisations are ready to go the whole length and allow their Consultants, Copy Writers, Engineers –or whatever their title is – to manage their own resource schedules and make customer meetings and other appointments themselves. This kind of scheduling information is completely synchronised with your resource plans in People Planner. Employees can book themselves to projects or request vacation with approval from their manager and all appointments show in People Planner.
The People Planner Scheduler gives you a complete overview of people’s assignments. You can immediate spot if your resources have available time; if you highlight an area and right-click, you can book the person.
A People Planner user interface is available for all your employees. Here, people can see the work that they have been assigned to and even book themselves. The view is web-based so that people can access it independently of where they are.
People Planner resource and employee planning is fully integrated with Outlook. Your employees have access to see bookings and appointments in their Outlook calendar. They can assign themselves to People Planner projects from Outlook and the appointment will appear in the resource planning overview.
A complete workflow in People Planner secures that employees can request vacation and that managers have a complete overview of planned vacations and leave requests.