Smart planning and resource insights for consultancy firms

Monitor profitability, streamline planning and develop the skills within your firm for future demand—all in one flexible and powerful platform.

Monitor margins with rate transparency

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.

Illustration of positions that you can set up in the Timewax data model

Position level

Define default commercial and cost price rates at the position level.

Illustration of how you can set up hourly rates at the resource level in the Timewax data model

Resource level

Set override values for the default rates at the resource level.

Illustration of how you can set up hourly rates at the project level in the Timewax data model

Project level

Register the rates that have been agreed upon with the customer.

 This gives you the insights needed to steer decisions and protect profitability.

Central planning with consultant-level flexibility

Consultancy firms benefit the most from a hybrid form of resource planning. Central planning to give direction and decentral planning to empower consultants.

High-level

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.

Detailed

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.

This collaboration leads to a highly accurate and realistic resource planning process.

Manage skills strategically to meet future demand

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. 

Define skills and levels

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.

Knowledge management

With our skill treemap dashboard, you immediately see which skills are dominant and which are less developed. 

Drill down

Click on skills and skill levels to drill down on how they are distributed in your organization by departments and positions.

This helps you anticipate gaps in skill areas and plan development or hiring accordingly. 

Integrations for consultants

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.

See all integrations here.

Consultancy firms that work with us

Smooth

“The transition to the new situation in Timewax was smooth. Questions and issues that we had were addressed and resolved quickly by the Timewax team.”
Olaf van der Sanden
Olaf van der Sanden | Xibis
PROJECT TEAM MANAGER

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