Appointment Booking & Resource Capacity Planning Updates in Qmatic Experience Cloud

Efficient resource capacity planning is an integral part of managing your appointments as it enables services to become bookable and accessible for customers only if the needed resources are available.

Today, Qmatic Experience Cloud’s Book and Plan apps for appointment booking and resource capacity planning offer users a new adaptive way of planning that combines the tools for efficient resource capacity management.

Plan provides you with a comprehensive overview of both appointments and resource capacity, spanning daily, weekly, and monthly intervals. This holistic visibility empowers you to allocate resources efficiently to meet customer demands without overwhelming your staff.

Simplified Resource Management: Introducing Virtual Resource Pools

There are two primary methods available with Plan for resource management:

1. Virtual resource pool management.
2. Management of individual resources and their working schedules

You can select one or combine both based on your business needs.

Let’s look at virtual resources in more detail.

A virtual resource pool is an abstraction for grouping resources with specific qualifications, which are assumed as required for providing the customer with the service (-es). Once the resources get mapped with resource pools, it allows operating with their capacity number instead of dealing with specific resource schedule alignments, which makes the overall resource planning process more straightforward, easier to control, and more adaptive to changes.

With the updated Pool Configuration, you can easily:

• Create the necessary resource pools and associate them with services/products offered
• Set up the baseline for capacity, which would correspond to a long-term resource allocation plan based on inaccurate service/product demand forecasting. 
  
  

This allows you to design an initial resource load and allocation plan and make your services available for bookings several months ahead.

Respond rapidly to change: Manage your resources workload using Plan

An extensive list of factors can affect human resource planning, so there is a need to adjust continuously the resource workload in reaction to different changes.

With the updated Plan app, you can monitor workflow trends, quickly reallocate idle resources and adjust service/product schedules so you stay on top of the resource’s workload.

Additionally, the improved resource pool graph visualizes the capacity planning summary, helping to consult the planned resource's workload versus actual appointment bookings to get a heads up if there is an issue with capacity planning and find a way to get back on track.

Resource pool graph

The newly added Edit Capacity feature opens the possibility to make capacity corrections by adding deviations for the specific hours/timespans during the working day and for the whole day or even several weeks ahead.

Edit capacity

Feature Highlights of Plan

• Plan resources workload effortlessly using virtual resource pools
• Enable long-term and short-term resource planning 
• Track workload trends with easy-to-understand graphs
• User-friendly design to make updates on the fly
  
  
  

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