
Scheduling in Outlook, 4 best practices
You can integrate Timewax with Outlook. But is a booking the same as an appointment? You should pay attention to this when you link the planning of employees to Outlook.
Monitor profitability, streamline planning and develop the skills within your firm for future demand—all in one flexible and powerful platform.
To stay competitive and profitable, consultancy firms need full visibility into both commercial rates and internal costs across all levels. Timewax enables you to calculate real-time margins at the project level.
Define default commercial and cost price rates at the position level.
Set override values for the default rates at the resource level.
Register the rates that have been agreed upon with the customer.
Consultancy firms benefit the most from a hybrid form of resource planning. Central planning to give direction and decentral planning to empower consultants.
Central planning
Resource managers centralley allocate resources to projects, control capacity and profitability across the organization. With our week planner, they create high-level schedules and push it to their calendar.
Decentral planning
Consultants, who are closest to the customer, fine-tune their schedules based on real-time needs and agreements. Our 2-way Outlook integration syncs this back for central overview.
For consultancy firms, knowledge is the core product—and managing it well is critical to success. Timewax enables you to assign the right people to the right projects and to keep skill data up to date as consultants grow.
Timewax enables you to set up skills and skill levels to register the capabilities of your resources. Based on skills, you qualify incoming work and easily match it to the right resources.
With our skill treemap dashboard, you immediately see which skills are dominant and which are less developed.
Click on skills and skill levels to drill down on how they are distributed in your organization by departments and positions.
Our planning software integrates seamlessly with typical systems that consultancy firms work with. We hook up to the systems that you have and that saves time.
You can integrate Timewax with Outlook. But is a booking the same as an appointment? You should pay attention to this when you link the planning of employees to Outlook.
With a large resource pool, it isn’t easy to track who can do what. Companies that run into this are missing a powerful medium; this tool is called a skill matrix.
Many businesses only see afterward what their project margin is. As a result, sometimes they come to an icky conclusion; the project wasn’t profitable. Recognizable?
You can take an interactive tour, book a tailor-made live demo or even start a free trial. Just want some advice? Don’t hesitate to reach out to one of our planning experts for a free consultation.
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