Capacity Planning in PeopleSoft Resource Management

Capacity Planning enables the Executive and IT management teams to commit to the highest priority projects and other demands with confidence, knowing that sufficient resource capacity exists within the organization. Capacity planning provides management with the:

• Ability to create and join a supply and demand forecast that highlights future resource gaps and surplus.

• Ability to create resource plans to resolve future resource imbalances.

Capacity Planning is an integral piece of functionality for the Project Portfolio Management and Information Technology (IT) governance markets. It is the merger and balance of human resources (supply) and work to be done (demand) to achieve and sustain peak operational efficiency.

PeopleSoft Resource Management provides IT and development organizations with capacity planning functionality to empower managers who make important demand commitment decisions based upon limited resources or capacity information. Capacity planning is primarily concerned with long-term projections and decisions about your organization's resource demand and supply.

After IT and development organizations have made important demand commitment decisions based upon their strategic capacity planning, pool managers, resource managers, and program managers need to execute upon those commitments. At an operational or day-to-day level, difficult resource decisions must be made over the course of a project to be successful. Some operational challenges—such as high resource turnover rates, extended vacations or illness on the part of key resources—cannot be forecast with Capacity Planning.

By logically grouping resources together, resource pools enable efficient resource management, while supply categories allow for classification of resources more interchangeably. Generic resource allocation enables managers to reserve pool capacity, and supply category analytics improve visibility of resource capacity.