Construction Scheduling Software: Track and Manage Complex Projects!
Get the job done in time by easily managing and scheduling your construction projects with Visual Planning.
96% of our customers have observed a time saving in managing construction projects.
Why Choose Visual Planning?
5000+ companies are using Visual Planning worldwilde to schedule more efficiently.
Our users have chosen Visual Planning for managing their construction projects to benefit from the software flexibility and sturdiness. Construction management requires many features to ensure that every construction project will be achieved in a timely manner. Visual Planning answers to all these business challenges!
You will be able to manage all your resources, have an overview of every construction project with different displays (Gantt, Calendar, Kanban, …), manage your resources by a simple “drag and drop”, have a real-time monitoring about every task of your construction project, centralize all information to collaborate with a personalized schedule through our desktop version or mobile app, VPGo, …
What is a Construction Planning Software?
A construction planning software must provide different features to allow its users (site manager, builder, electrician, architect, …) to manage and schedule each step of a construction project, from the beginning to the delivery.
Construction planning software are made up with different features going from task management (tasks scheduling, time management, priority management, …), to the resource management (human resources, equipment, workload schedule, …) and monitoring (performance analysis, work progress, financial analysis, …).
Monitoring such projects requires the centralization of an important amount of data, from several services of your company (team schedules, invoice, costs, report, task evolution, …).
Benefits of using Visual Planning as your Construction Scheduling Software
Regardless of your company size or core of business, Visual Planning has developed in-depth management solutions dedicated to improving company productivity and accomplishing organizational milestones.
Optimization of your resource management
By integrating all information about your resources (availability, skills, subcontractors, employees, raw material, location, …), you will have access in just a few clicks to key information to assign the right resources to tasks but also, have a clear idea of your construction site progress.
Dashboard: get access to key information
In your dashboard, different widgets can be added to quickly check the status of your tasks and the progress of your projects in real-time. Moreover, communication between your teams will be improved by customizing and only displaying relevant information depending on the user’s department or position.
Optimization of your expenses and your budget
Using the right equipment at the right moment by considering every characteristic of your construction projects will allow you to optimize your costs. Your teams will also benefit from a better visibility and understand each construction site situation by having a central platform to access all data.
Adapt your strategy at any time
With the ergonomic design of Visual Planning, you will easily be able to add new construction projects and allocate the right resources. Moreover, you will have a better analysis of your time management thanks to a complete KPI statistics system (notification, workload, …).
Your construction scheduling software in your mobile phone.
Visual Planning teams have developed an application to let our users have access to their construction planning wherever they are. Thereby, you will have the possibility to change the status of your task, send any type of feedback from the field and have access to information in real time!
How it works?
Here is how Visual Planning’s team will create your own personalized construction planning software:
1) Requirement Analysis
During the first contact with one of our sale representatives, your needs will be reviewed to know more about your business challenges and scheduling needs.
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More insights and details about the Visual Planning’s features which are the most used when it comes to construction management will be presented to you during a demo which will be customized and based on your needs. Once done, our consulting team will take time to validate your functional scope and feasibility of all your requests. An estimate of the implementation time, trainings and overall deployment will finally be provided to you and your team.
2) Design and Configuration
Based on your functional scope, our consultant will have all needed information about your business needs to configure your construction software.
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Your operational team will work along with our consultant to follow up the implementation of Visual Planning and validate its progress throughout the project. We focus on delivering several outputs throughout the project and adopting an agile methodology to provide you with the highest business value solution.
3) Testing and Validation
Benefit from our import/export native features to initialize all your actual data in your construction scheduling solution before going live.
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Different type of data can be imported such as human and material resources, skills and certifications, financial information, construction site details and deadlines, …
4) Implementation
Once your overall scheduling process tested and approved, you will be ready to use Visual Planning to schedule your construction projects.
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Some characteristics of our software as our filtering system and our user-friendly interface will allow you to allocate the best resource to your construction sites while monitoring your overall activities, … and much more!
5) Evaluation and Improvement
Your sale representative will always be in touch with you to support all the needed changes in your construction software solution along with your company’s growth and daily challenges.
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Whenever needed, you can reach out our teams to get support for adding accesses to your configuration, new features who were missing, get a technical assistance, …
Construction Scheduling Software
Optimize each one of your construction projects by using Visual Planning as your Construction Scheduling Software. Discover how we can help you to improve your efficiency with our key features, detailed below:
Construction Project Monitoring : get an overview of your project to secure your success.
With Visual Planning’s dashboard, you will be able to see key information at a glance, going from the completion of your tasks via our status management system (on going, achieved, scheduled, etc) to the notification of identified delay problems from each of your project!
Optimize your human resource management with your construction scheduling software
Our software allows you to manage your HR resources by having access to workers information, certification and skillset, availabilities, … Moreover, managing absences in Visual Planning will allow you to better control teams’ availability and workload (holiday, sick leave, trainings…).
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The main objective of coordinating HR information with your construction projects is to monitor the work assigned to your workers, control their workload, and ensure the best efficiency to conduct your construction projects.
Seamless connectivity: integrate your scheduling software with your other tools
By integrating your construction scheduling software with your other tools, you will avoid error and double entry with other software already used in your company such as your accounting software, ERP … and much more!
Some of our clients, have requested an integration with Sage, SAP, Oslo, …
Increase the profitability of your construction project by optimizing your cost.
With the statistic reports provided by your construction planning software, you can obtain a complete control on your expenses, from the labour cost to your material resource allocation. Data centralization and statistics features in our Constructions software solution will offer you a better understanding of your expenses to help you opting for the best strategy.
Multi planning views: increase your efficiency and your productivity
Visual Planning allows you to manage different planning views and favourite displays to simplify your coordination with your teams and data’s synchronization. You can also create customized views (dashboard, task, Gantt, Kanban, …) for each one of your resources to manage their task, skills, certifications … and control data access with our user rights management system.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the benefits of using a Scheduling Software for Construction?
Using a scheduling software for construction projects provides your company and your teams with a lot of advantages:
- Improvement of the coordination and communication between your project manager and your workforce,
- Tracking the progress of your construction projects,
- Optimization of your resources management, …
Moreover, you will be able to increase your efficiency by managing in a better way your operations and by getting a 360° overview of your projects (time management, workload, cost management, …). In the same way, one of the main characteristics requested by our users is to limit delay and information duplication thanks to data centralization, user rights management and last but not least, wide customization possibilities for each user with personal alerts and notification systems of their allocated tasks.
How to choose the best Construction Scheduling Software?
To define which one of the construction scheduling software is the best for you, you need to define your needs and priority:
- What kind of project? For how many users?
- Which kind of features? Is it easy to get familiar with?
- Do you need an integration with your other software?
By answering to those questions, you will be able to draft a functional scope and list of requirements which will allow you to define your selection criteria. Users managing their field service activities with Visual Planning have chosen our scheduling software because they were looking for a flexible and ergonomic solution where they can have an overview on their numerous projects (time and dates, client history, administrative documents, …) while being able to get access to information wherever they are thanks to our mobile application.
Who benefits from Construction Scheduling Tools?
Every type of company, small and medium size business (SMB) or Large Companies can take advantage of a construction scheduling software. The value will be as important as for each of your employees, from the project manager (site foreman) to the workers, including your subcontractors.
When we look more in details about the benefit for each profile, the site foreman will be the one who allocates the task to the human resources, material or manage the budget, … Thus, he will need an overview immediately on all projects currently conducted by the company.
For the workers, having an overview over their own tasks, assigned projects and personal data is more relevant.
Providing specific accesses to data depending on your position whether you are a foreman, worker or even a subcontractor will be part of your success for conducting well your construction projects. In a nutshell, each person involved in the construction project will take benefits of the construction scheduling tool.
