CampControl Staff Scheduling
Scheduling staff is a tricky business and
can quickly rack up costs if done inefficiently. It's a
balancing act based on many interacting parts - employees,
contractors, weather and project interruptions, some of which are
outside of your organisation and largely beyond your control.
Planning a schedule involves:
- Deciding which staff you need on site at which times,
ensuring the skills base is covered for the required tasks.
- Getting people in and out while working around their
personal requirements.
- Meal planning.
- Contingency scheduling in response to emergencies and/or
delays.
Due to the dynamic nature of mineral exploration,
scheduling staff is constantly changing and keeping all those who
are involved up-to-date is both complex and time-consuming.
Very often companies plan their schedules in Excel spreadsheets and
email them to the team. As changes are made, more email is
sent out. Whenever someone refers to the schedule (be it
manager or field worker), it's often in doubt that the copy they
have is the most up-to-date.
How it works
CampControl addresses the complexities of staff scheduling in the
following ways:
- Staff can, if appropriate, enter their own schedules.
- Being online, everyone in the team can be sure they are
working with the latest and most up-to-date version of the
schedule.
- Data entry is very easy either by entering date ranges or
duration in days for each activity. Entering a date range
results in an instant calculation of the duration in days or on
the flip side, enter a start date and the durations of the
subsequent activities and leave CampControl to calculate the
dates.
- The schedules can be viewed in graphical form showing each
team member and the activities they scheduled for, side by side.
- Conflicts in schedules are highlighted and CampControl shows
exactly which schedule entries are clashing to enable
resolution.
- CampControl has the user information and the user
permissions already set up, so there's no need to keep a second
system synchronised just to facilitate scheduling.
See Staff Schedules for examples of the scheduling graphical output.
Combining scheduling with the other features in CampControl such as
timesheets, drill progress logs, helicopter logs, vehicle logs and
flight and hotel records results in a very power management tool.
All your management data is in one place and instantly available.
Consequently, reporting and payroll become that much easier with a
fully integrated system.
List of CampControl Modules
For first-time readers of our newsletter, here is a summary list of
modules provided by CampControl:
| Work Logs |
Tasks |
Inventory Control |
Sample Custody |
| Drill Progress Logs |
Calendar |
General Orders Control |
Photo Management |
| Vehicle Logs |
Helicopter Logs |
Travel Orders Control |
Document Management |
| Custom Logs |
Custom Reports |
Staff Scheduling |
Standard Reports |
Test Drive CampControl
There are two quick ways to try out
CampControl and see how it can improve your efficiency:
(1) Click around inside our Exploration Manager Demo Account - fun
to do because it's full of real exploration data (see top left of
our Home Page);
(2) Create a 14-day Free Trial account, configure it to the
locations you operate in and the users who will use it, and
customise it to your company's existing accounting standards. [Contact
us if you need free assistance with this trial setup stage.]
Click here for Sign Up Options
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