Solutions/ERP/Visual Planning

• Visual Planning with VarChart XGantt
• Resource Scheduling
• Intuitive User Interaction
• Documentation

Visual Planning with VarChart XGantt

Interactive Visual Chart and Planning Software for Project and Resource Management, Production Planning, Control Centers, Workflows...

VarChart XGantt is integrated with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and its Gantt charts allow to display the chronology of tasks and to plan the capacity of resources. Due to their graphical visualisation, interrelations and deviations become obvious at a glance.

In case of date-relevant changes for individual activities/tasks or relationships the integrated PERT/CPM scheduling allows to re-calculate all dates of other depending activities/tasks according to the entered relationships, durations and calendars. Use the integrated PERT/CPM scheduling to re-calculate the early and late dates as well as the total and free floats. The scheduling can be performed automatically after editing any date-relevant data or it can be triggered, if required.

With VarChart XGantt Helios-IT offers you a visual aid for :

• project management
• resource scheduling
• machine allocation
• human resource management
• process engineering
• control panels
• ...and many more

Visualisation options are :

• Bars
• Grouped Layout
  
  
  

• Hierarchical Layout
  
  
  
  
• Time Scale
  
  
  
  
• Calendar Grid
• Table
• Histogram

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Resource Scheduling

The Resource Scheduling module of VARCHART XGantt supports the conception of interactive decision making. It unifies both, generating schedules automatically after pre-defined strategies and taking individual constraints into account. The latter can be edited interactively and graphically in the Gantt chart; there is no need to define complicated rules in advance. Recalculations continuously include the individual settings. If, for example, problems occur due to failures or breakdowns, and changes become necessary, different scenarios can be tried and their impact on delivery dates can be tested. Complying with binding delivery dates requires knowledge on the workload of a resource already in preliminary stages.

Interactive decision making combines human skills and computer abilities to find the appropriate balance of customer fulfilment and of optimized and consistent workload for your resources. A fast perception of conflicts in a schedule enables the planning staff to handle situations flexibly, even those for which the system does not provide precise solutions.

There is a smooth transition from manual to automatic scheduling, depending on the requirements of the situation. It increases the stability of schedules and provides flexibility where require