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Field Service Planning - Multi Resource

Make a difference as an employer with the smart and flexible employee & resource planning and scheduling solution

The need for flexibility and productivity remains as high as ever. Nevertheless, labor shortages and increasingly discerning employees require organizations to be smarter and more flexible with workforce planning.

Scheduling employees with diverse experiences and competencies is a complex puzzle. Especially when your people work externally on your customer’s premises, as home care workers, installers, technicians, security personnel, etc. and requiring specific equipment. Facilitating a schedule which considers all the necessities and wishes of your people alongside your customers creates a multifaceted challenge for the planners. How do you plan each field service employee and their resources as efficiently as possible, while considering the needs and wishes of your people and your customers?

Poor workforce planning may lead to high employee turnover with then higher recruitment and training costs, lower satisfaction, and reduced employee engagement with potential negative implications for customer service.

Ordina Field Service Planning – Multi Resource provides a scalable, digital managed solution for scheduling tasks and resources on-site. Ordina has based this service on the best of breed workforce planning software DELMIA Quintiq of Dassault Systèmes. The hosted service will allow to scale with your multi resource planning operation over time.

The managed service incudes key capabilities like:

  • Multi-resource Capacity Planning, Shift planning, Travel time matrix, Task- and activity planning, Labor rule management, Absence management, Ergonomic rostering, Mobility , Self scheduling, Cyclic Plans, Travel time GIS service, Time and Attendance, Asset Planning, Customer engagement.

Key benefits FSP-MR solution

The key business benefits of the Ordina FSP-MR solution are: Differentiation through operational excellence, increase employee loyalty and improve the workforce retention, efficient assignments of people, equipment and/or materials, reduced risk with less an error-prone planning process, future proof solution in a constantly changing world.

Differentiation through operational excellence

Differentiation through operational excellence

In order to provide your customers with as much value as possible, services are often as important as the goods delivered. When it comes to customer field services activities, your employees are the ‘live’ representation to exceed the high customer service levels you have set for your organization.

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Increase employee loyalty and improve the workforce retention

Increase employee loyalty and improve the workforce retention

According to a business survey of the Ifo Institute, there is a significant shortage of qualified workers in the two main sectors (industry and services) throughout the European Union. In the industrial sector, 29.1 percent of companies in the EU reported a shortage of skilled workers in 2022.

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Efficient assignments of people, equipment and/or materials

Efficient assignments of people, equipment and/or materials

McKinsey acknowledged in an article ‘Smart scheduling: How to solve workforce-planning challenges with AI’ that the complexity of workforce planning and the demand for dynamic action make agile decision making very difficult.

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Reduced risk with less an error-prone planning process

Reduced risk with less an error-prone planning process

Being a workforce planner in a company is a tough and responsible job. People will often blame the planner if a roster is not in line with the expectations of the planned their expectations,.

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Future proof solution in a constantly changing world

Future proof solution in a constantly changing world

On June 5th, Fortune published their new list of top 500 companies in 2023. Since the start of the Fortune 500 list in 1955, over 90% companies are gone today. It demonstrates that there’s been a lot of market disruption over the last six decades and the rules of the business game have changed dramatically.

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Video FSR-MR solution

In this video below Bart Willemsen, Director Supply Chain Optimisation at Ordina, explains the benefits of the Ordina FSP-MR solution.

FSP-MR solution

Meet the Expert session FSP-MR

In our Meet the Expert session on Field Service Planning Twan Janssen, Thought Leader Workforce Planning at Dassault Systèmes, and Bart Willemsen, Director Supply Chain Optimisation at Ordina discuss some key trends in mobile workforce planning. They also share their insights on how to find the right balance between operational efficiency and employee wellbeing.n addition, Kris Van Marcke, Solution Owner Supply Chain Optimisation at Ordina, will give you an exclusive demonstration of the Ordina FSP-MR solution.

Field Service Planning podcasts

In these podcasts, we discuss how field service planning can help organisations stay ahead.

Stay ahead with the competition with field service planning

Stay ahead with the competition with field service planning

In this podcast our experts explain how field service planning can help companies offer top notch customer service with happy employees. We dive into 4 major changes that currently are happening in the market.

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Be a front runner in field service planning

Be a front runner in field service planning

Have you considered what it means to be resilient in field service planning? Twan Janssen en Bart Willemsen explain what it takes to be a front runner in field service planning when all kinds of disruptions in recent years have changed the way we work.

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Bart Willemsen

Director Business Development, Supply Chain Optimization