PLANTA project
Successful Initiation, Planning, and Implementation of Projects
Stay on Top of Your Projects
- You want to keep a perfect overview of dates, resources and costs of your projects?
- You want to get the most out of your project teams and want your projects’ progress to be visible at any time?
PLANTA project lets you plan and control your projects systematically from project application to the archived project. You can immediately identify free capacities in the resource utilization, so that you can make quick decisions on projects. In the case of changes and upcoming bottlenecks you can take counter measures in good time.
Thanks to the elaborated controlling options you are always up to date with regard to the current project status and possible deviations.
Decide for yourself how you want to keep your data: on-premises or as a cloud solution.
PLANTA project can also be used as a web client in parallel with the local client. PLANTA software thus remains available via desktop but you can also use it on your tablet or notebook via the browser.
PLAN + DECIDE
Plan projects and project applications systematically and create your own project standard for your company
Individual project management with project templates, adjustable process model, company-specific workflows provide your projects with the necessary structure. Task management, Ablaufplanung, date planning help assist you in resource planning. cost planning, risk management, financial key figures help you to decide for a project.
Integration via Outlook Calendar allows you to directly import project and task dates from PLANTA project into Outlook Calendar. Integration takes place via the universal interface PLANTA link.
CONTROL + OPTIMIZE
Operative resource management allows you to immediately identify free capacities and bottlenecks.
Resource planning, resource assignment without overload, transparent resource utilization throughout all projects, skill management
Identifying and reacting to bottlenecks, resource simulation, change management
Performance and cost recording, milestone control
CHECK + EVALUATE
Always current project data for project controlling and management
Multi-project management, resource management of all company resources, cost management on each level of the project structure, risk management, conflict management
Identify project progress and deviations, create forecasts of remaining effort, make planned-actual comparisons
Meaningful reports at the click of a button, status reports and trend analyses on the basis of integrated time recording
Reliable monitoring and the option to set up your own multi-project information system with the help of which you always have an eye on dates, resources, and costs of all company projects so that you can swiftly react to deviations
Flexible Role Concept — Everyone Sees Exactly what They Need
The project management process involves employees who have different tasks, areas of responsibility and competences. Predefined adjustable roles purposefully support the employees involved in the project in their work.
Multi-Project Manager
The multi-project manager’s main task is the coordination of individual projects with regard to the best possible implementation of the strategic company goals. Multi-project managers analyze the interaction of projects to identify cross-project resource conflicts and take suitable measures for optimization.
Plan and Prioritize Project Applications Systematically
Projekt-Vorlagen und unternehmensspezifische Workflows erleichtern die Planung von Projekten. Jede Projektidee im Unternehmen wird nach klarem Projektstandard erfasst.
Clear Budget Specifications
Task management and date planning with specification of effort and cost budgets define the framework for a successful project. budgets, costs and revenues are visualized in a transparent way including their possible deviations.
Identify Risks and Opportunities
Financial key figures and possible project risks and opportunities in multi-project and individual project management help to decide for a project idea. The damage and gross profit values of the projects are visualized with their probability of occurrence and the extent of damage to be expected in a clear traffic light design.
Plan Resources
The resource request process facilitates outline planning with generic resources like teams/departments. Plan machines, devices, testing facilities, external resources, cost or skill resources.
A request/approval workflow facilitates resource planning.
PLANTA project provides a clear overview of the resource utilization over all projects, proposals, and project ideas and allows you to quickly identify resource conflicts. This allows you to take appropriate measures in good time even if changes are made to the running project.
Have an Eye on the Progress of Your Projects
Meaningful reports like status reports and trend analyses can be created based on the integrated time recording at the click of a button. This allows persons responsible for the project to always have an eye on project progress and deviations from the planning. The project manager can transmit forecasts on changes to the remaining effort for each project.
The info board shows the summarized information of individual projects in a clearly arranged way: costs, effort, risk and opportunity trends as well as earned value and milestone trend data.
Program Manager
In a program, several projects can be bundled. The program manager coordinates and manages the projects of a program to achieve the strategic goals and requirements of the program.
The program manager’s tasks:
- Define the program
- Assign the projects to the program
- Estimate risks and opportunities as well as costs and effort
- Monitor budgets and dates
- Create program status reports
Bundle projects to programs
Bundling projects to programs helps to maintain an overview of milestones and costs of projects that belong together.
Budget, costs, and effort of the program or of the assigned projects can be displayed as summarized total values or per yearly tranche in the Budget module.
Project Manager
The project manager is responsible for planning and executing his or her projects. Project data such as project attributes, key dates, descriptive data, and evaluating data such as objective contribution and risk value are clearly displayed in the Project Core Data.
Project planning and monitoring
The project manager plans his/her project in detail with regard to dates, resources, and costs based on the process model. You can also control approvals via customer individual, definable processes in the form of workflows. Master milestones and gates can be used to enhance control. Project control by means of the integrated project time recording (actual dates, costs and effort).
Cost planning
The Budget module visualizes cost, budget, and effort details of the project grouped by cost type groups. Budget planning can be carried out with the objective of comparing costs calculated in the course of the planning with the budget. Project costs can be copied from external systems like SAP via an interface.
Project communication
The Dashboard module is the notification center for current information on the project. Different statuses of the milestones, the current project status, activities, budget/cost deviations, forecasts on additional effort of project team members, etc. are displayed.
The project manager can add personal estimates on end date, effort, costs, and quality to project status reports.
Resource manager
The resource manager is responsible for the timely completion of all project-related tasks of his/her department. He/she is interested in the best possible distribution of work to their employees, and in a high and steady utilization of his/her department.
Department board
The central department board immediately indicates free capacities and bottlenecks and facilitates planning and replanning of resources, taking into account priorities, skills, and vacation.
Utilization diagrams
Utilization diagrams clearly display the utilization of the resources by project code. Vacation and absence of the employees of the department are displayed as well.
Project Staff
The project team member is responsible for the timely completion of the tasks assigned to them and records his/her effort on the projects. Due to the project team member’s forecast, the project manager can keep the resource planning up-to-date at all times.
Employee board
The central Employee Board is the project team member’s processing center. It provides an overview of the projects in which the employee is planned and shows his/her utilization. The todo items and process steps to be completed by him/her are listed there in a clearly organized manner.
Simple entry of hours
The project team member himself enters his hours worked in the input mask of the relevant project. The employee’s presence can optionally be displayed when reporting hours worked (e.g. import arriving and leaving times from PDA).
Management/Stakeholder
As a basis for decision-making, the management and the stakeholders need reliable project-specific and cross-project information.
Comprehensive reporting
Even in the PLANTA project standard version there is a variety of predefined cross-project reports like project status reports with project progression history as well as reports on critical project situations like date delay, milestone delay, or budget overrun. By means of the PLANTA Customizer component, individual reports can be created and exported to Excel.
Overview in multi-project management
Stakeholders can have projects displayed in the Multi-Project Board grouped by different criteria, e.g. by cost center, customers, or project groups. The project manager’s estimate regarding the status of the project concerned is also displayed.
Detailed cost and budget overviews
Budgets, costs, and revenues can also be grouped by different parameters like, e.g., project code, project manager, or customer and show both the current and the initially planned status in a clearly organized manner.