Deprecated Allocate Resource and Resource Monitoring Gantt in 25R2

Is anybody from IFS able to give us some valid respond to our (PARTNER) question?

Hi, regarding the following functions (Allocate Resource and Resource Monitoring Gantt) that will be deprecated in 25r2, do you know if IFS will provide other features/page to replace them? 

Hi Thilini, 

In this case, what about allocating tools/equipment? Since we cannot use the Dispatch Console for that. 

Thank you, 

-Manusha  

Hi ​@Manusha 

Yes that’s true. As a workaround, please try below.

Use Resource Management / Crew concepts, where tools can exist as part of a crew.

How it works:

• Create a Crew
• Add:
  • Persons
  • Tools / equipment as crew members
• Dispatch Console allocates the crew, not individual tools

Best Regards,

Thilini

Hi ​@Manusha 

Yes that’s true. As a workaround, please try below.

Use Resource Management / Crew concepts, where tools can exist as part of a crew.

How it works:

• Create a Crew
• Add:
  • Persons
  • Tools / equipment as crew members
• Dispatch Console allocates the crew, not individual tools

 

Best Regards,

Thilini

Hi Thilini, 

Thank you however, this doesn’t seem like the best approach because the tools/equipment aren’t always going to be with the same crew. 

For example, our customer will be using the tool/equipment functionality to record their in-house cranes they will be allocating for work. These cranes will have different engineers assigned from job to job. 

In this case, they will need to keep changing these crew members after every job if they were to use the Crew option. Which can be a cumbersome task because we had discussed Crew options and they already do not have a wish to use it. 

Can we not have a functionality similar to ‘Allocate Resource’ or what we get in Dispatch Console for Tools/equipment? 

The visibility also should be there to see the tools/equipment availability similar to what we had in the Resource Monitoring Gantt or the Allocate Resource if these 2 functionalities are going to be deprecated. 

Thank you,

-Manusha 

Hi ​@Manusha 

Please let me direct this to our Product Development (RnD) team to check whether this is in the road map or any other better alternate approaches, etc.

​@vinklk , ​@Wasu May we kindly have your input on above concern please ? Is there any plans to implement this ? Thank you.

Best Regards,

Thilini

Appreciate it Thilini, thank you very much! 

-Manusha 

Hi ​ ​@Thilini Kumarasinghe 

You were correct. Dispatch Console does not support scheduling and monitoring of Tools/equipment as in Allocate Resources and unfortunately I don’t see any alternative solution either. 

Appreciate if we could receive more details about the customer and their specific business use case in this scenario. ​@jaroslav.runstuk  ​@Manusha 

Hi ​@Wasu ,

This is a company that provides services for construction companies by providing cranes, and riggers etc. And they have their in-house riggers, and cranes who will be assigned for different jobs. We are implementing IFS Cloud for them. 

The solution we had recommended was to set these cranes and riggers as resources and allocate for jobs as required, using Tool/Equipment for Cranes which are also set as FAs in the system for depreciation, and persons for Riggers.  

These cranes and riggers are not set as teams, because they will need different crane types based on weight for each job along with different riggers for each job. Everything is based on availability of the resources.

Using the Dispatch Console can be done for Riggers. Though we demonstrated Dispatch Console, they preferred Allocate Resource functionality due to simplicity. But we can bring Dispatch Console again, no problem. 

However, for crane availability, they will not have a solution in place from 25R2. Can there be something to address tools/equipment availability and allocation in the roadmap? 

Thank you,

-Manusha 

Hi, regarding (Allocate Resource and Resource Monitoring Gantt) that is deprecated in 25r2,and the suggestion to use Dispatch Console.

The customer has 10% of work tasks linked to Service and 90% linked to internal Maintenance, what is the solution to handle Work Tasks allocations? (after Allocate Resource and Resource Monitoring Gantt now is deprecated in 25r2)
-Including Tools/Equipment. 
-Customer does not have PSO.