Advantages
Capabilities
Return on Investment
Capabilities

  • Resource Management
    • Track system wide requests for resources grouped by resource classification
    • Maintain team attributes (i.e. team name/id, team leader, number of personnel and equipment, current work location, ETA/ATA, lodging requirements, note/comments, shift, oversight, etc.)
    • Import teams/crews, rosters, and equipment from predefined templates or via system integration with existing applications
    • Manage team member information at the individual level (i.e. name, employee id, gender, storm role, contact number, vehicle assignment, etc.)
    • Integrate off-system teams/crews such as line contractors, vegetation crews, and mutual assistance
    • Assign teams to locations based on a 5 tiered hierarchy; Company, Operating Company, Region, Zone, Location
    • Update, create, re-assign, split or modify team composition utilizing a user friendly grid interface
    • Equipment/vehicle repository with the ability to assign individuals to specific vehicles
    • Search and filtering functionality for both crews and individuals
  • Hours Tracking
    • Ability to track hours worked on a daily basis at the crew level, including:
      • Crew start time
      • Number of hours per shift
      • Hard stop time
      • Actual stop time
      • Rest interval
      • Time of availability the next day
    • Rate table for hourly wages for personnel and equipment types
    • Logic for determining straight versus overtime
    • Sort/Filter teams by hours worked or hours remaining
    • Estimate expenditures using the consolidated cost summary screen
    • Hour-by-hour Gantt charts to display crew work/rest intervals
    • Bar graph to visualize crew counts by location over time
  • Future Views
    • Assign crews to both current and future work locations
    • Business logic based on ETA’s and Future Date/Time to determine crew allocations
    • Ability to peer into the future using date/time filters in order to plan the next day’s or shift’s workforce
    • Crew Calculator to project “what if” scenarios that calculate estimated restoration times based on the ratio of work orders to assigned crews
  • Lodging / Logistics
    • Establish permanent and temporary staging areas
    • Document area facilities and services (i.e. communications options, site manager, amenities such as ice, water, laundry, first aid, security, bathrooms, showers, tents, trailers, food availability, etc.)
    • Maintain lodging area and hotel inventory with the ability to reserve the number of rooms necessary to satisfy crew requirements
    • Assign rooms to crews using a lodging dashboard that utilizes singles/doubles or dormitory style methodology
  • Report
    • Real-time data reports
    • Point-in-time snapshot reports
    • Time-stamped historical reports
    • Team log reports to capture personnel and vehicle changes
    • Graphical executive dashboard
    • Direct export to Excel from multiple screens
  • Administration
    • Manage single or multiple events
    • Define and edit a multi-tiered regional hierarchy
    • Configure user roles and regional associations
    • Map storm roles to resource types
  • External Integration
    • Real-time integration with callout tool
    • Integration with external systems via web services
    • Seamless integration with intranet sites