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| Business benefits |
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| Optimizing your business |
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| A key value of Retain Resource is its ability to
provide information which management can use to optimize the business.
This is delivered via the powerful report generator. |
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Variety - Retain Resource can generate the reports
by department, by staff grade, by a specific client, by categories
of client, by a job or class of jobs and so on. Indeed, reporting
by a single employee can be useful for staff reviews. |
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Customization - You can also customize the appearance
of reports (i.e. fonts, headings, sort order etc). Report data can
be exported to spreadsheets etc for further analysis. |
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| Making accurate revenue and cost forecasts |
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| With Retain Resource you can pro-actively manage
your resources (e.g. avoid difficulties or cost over-runs before they
happen): |
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Forecasting your business revenue and costs is, of
course, an essential part of management planning. Similarly many of
your clients may expect you to provide periodic cost projections as
part of your service. Using Retain Resource you can set up many accurate
forecasts, each to meet a different business need. |
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Rates and promotions - also you can set several charge
and cost rates for each member of staff (or grade) or each job code
or a combination of both. Each rate can be set to apply from a specified
date allowing increases in your rates to be factored in. Similarly
you can make assumptions about staff promotions. |
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| Putting it into practice |
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| We find that clients often start using Retain Resource
for one purpose (e.g. staff revenue and cost forecasting) and soon
find it very useful for other needs (e.g. workload distribution, conference
room bookings etc.). |
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• Staff planning
is the most popular use of Retain Resource. For example, many professional
businesses (such as accountancy, law and consultancy firms and financial
institutions) use it plan and manage the distribution of client matters
among their professional staff. Also it can be used to monitor the
type and amount of staff training. |
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• Facilities
management is another use ranging from conference rooms and operating
theatres to fleets of cars. For example, the availability of beds
in hospital wards can be planned taking account of differing features
and equipment usable at particular beds. |
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• Both - Indeed,
it is possible to combine both. For example, schools can work out
schedules for teachers, pupils and classes at the same time as the
classrooms. |
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