resource planning
Budgeting assets ahead
Resource planning is the process of identifying, allocating, and scheduling the people, money, materials, and time needed to complete a project or run an organization.
In business contexts, it often involves forecasting future needs and balancing competing demands: The resource planning phase revealed we'd need three more developers.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) refers to software systems that integrate these functions across an entire company.
- budgetingAllocating funds systematically
- schedulingAssigning times to events
- project timelineOrdered sequence of deliverables
- critical pathLongest dependent task chain
- procurementObtaining goods externally
logistics · software integration · workforce · human capital · staffing levels · recruitment · skill gaps · contingency · bottleneck · lean operations · inventory control · cost analysis · performance management · stretch goals · supply chain management · investment strategy · capital allocation · data analytics
- allocationallocation, capital allocation, asset allocation, apportionment, appropriations
- Project Toolstask, task list, task manager, to-do list, to do
- outdoor recreationhiking, camping, fishing, swimming, skiing
- business softwareCRM, accounting, payroll, billing, invoicing
- forecastingforecast, prediction, prognosis, outlook, estimate
- staffingstaffing, turnover rates, hiring, staffing firm, staffing agency
resource planningimprovisation
Spontaneous, unplanned creation
winging it · flying by the seat of your pants · extemporization · crisis response · firefighting
resource planningcrisis management
Handling urgent threatening situations
firefighting · damage control · emergency response · scrambling