Resource Management Solution

The eLink Advantage business management system provides you with a complete resource management solution based on shared calendars for every resource you utilise, integrated with full office administration.

Resources can include:

• People with particular skill sets, who are not ‘users’, and who are deployed for certain tasks, e.g. a contract job driving HGVs or fork-lift trucks or a security guard

• Trainers or Consultants contracted on temporary contracts to do particular assignments

• Electronic instruments issued as needed, to various members of staff

• Computers eg PCs, laptops, PDAs or Mobile phones issued for on-going use by members of staff

• Motor vehicles, cars or HGVs

• Conference rooms

• Presentation equipment

• Equipment that is hired in

The eLink Advantage resource management solution includes a relational database to enable you to maintain relationships with your suppliers as well as with your users.

It incorporates emails and other documents together with all the relating task and time management issues with shared To Do Lists and shared calendars.

Which means that:

• the resource can be booked within the shared diary system and every authorised user can see the details (also consider the benefits of extending your intranet to be an extranet so that other people can see the information.)

• assets can have formal actions set up for inspections, servicing, upgrading or whatever

• a simple availability view can be set up so that the most appropriate person can be selected for the task because personal skills details can be held in Contact Management

• actions can be set up in the Resource Management solution for every recurring event for any resource

• a block of resources eg conference rooms can be looked at in the shared calendars on a ‘planning view’ basis with full details of the bookings, all with hyperlinks and ‘hover over’

• The manager or executive responsible for the asset can have a control schedule showing all the events and activities booked

With it all tied back in to the asset management and risk management files you have a very cost-effective integrated Resource Management Solution.

The benefits of the eLink Advantage resource management solution are:

• Better staff productivity

• Better resource utilisation

• Full audit trails of all activities

• Clear track of the resource user

• Better customer relationships

• Better management control

• Improved profitability

Special types of licence are available so that calendars can be viewed and accessed via a semi-public internet or intranet system cost-effectively.

The system stands on its own as your resource management solution or, because of the interconnection with other modules available within the eLink Advantage business management system, it can be used as a starting point for a more comprehensive business management solution.

Your initial solution can be amended and extended by you on-demand, live on your system at any time, it will grow and adapt to match how your organisation grows and adapts to your market needs.