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Scheduling & Dispatching: A Guide to the Benefits of Specialized Software

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7 Customizable Views Employees across construction workflows benefit when they can view the schedule according to their specific requirements and responsibilities. The limitation with whiteboards, spreadsheets and other static tools is that there is only a single view. A good software solution makes it easy to filter or focus on specific time periods, types of resources or a combinations of the two. Users can custom define these views, store any number of them, and view them when needed on desktop or mobile devices. Security restrictions govern which views can be seen by which employees. • Format to focus on resources important to specific employees • Filter to remove clutter • Group to keep items together that should be reviewed together • Secure to give the right users access to specific information and capabilities SEE THE SCHEDULE THE WAY YOU WANT TO SEE IT A dispatcher will likely find it helpful to toggle quickly between crew-centric and equipment-centric views A shop manager may only want to see equipment assignments and needs A superintendent may want to filter the schedule by job sites and then drill down to see the resources assigned to each one

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