The Planning module allows you to represent current and future plans in terms of budget, scheduling, and resources. The Trimble Unity Construct Planning module is used to help you determine the feasibility of planned and potential projects and how they might fit into the scope of the capital plan. Stakeholders have real time visibility into the status of capital plans. Using this module reduces the costs and risks associated with capital planning for facility owners and companies that act on their behalf. It does this by enabling a standard process to quantify and prioritize planned projects for inclusion in the capital plan. The Planning module is fully integrated with active project data so that the information you base decisions on is 100% complete and truly up to date.
Here are a few key advantages to using the planning module:
Better Alignment of Projects and Strategic Goals: Rank and prioritize projects based on your organization's strategic goals. Use consistent and objective criteria to prioritize the projects and achieve better alignment between your chosen projects and your strategic objectives.
Ability to Enforce a Standard Process: Maintain compliance with regulatory requirements and company policy. Ensure that only projects with complete information are considered and that all projects in the plan have the correct approvals and back-up documentation.
Total Visibility in Project Planning: Automate the process of keeping all stake holders (including project requesters) in the loop regarding planned and approved project status. Eliminate the time lag in communication and provide real time status as decisions are made.
Easy Access to Planning Data: Centrally maintain all current and historical planning data including potential project data and supporting information so that it can be accessed easily, searched, and used for analysis.
Scenario Based Planning Capability: Greatly simplify and speed up the process of developing what-if scenarios for planning. Eliminate all of the time and the manual effort that goes into creating scenarios so that you can analyze many more combinations and pick the best one.
Integration with Active Project Data: Obtain real time planning data including cash flow projections using up to the minute active project cost and schedule information improving visibility and decision making. Also eliminate the time and effort required to manually consolidate multiple data sources.