CAPACITY PLANNING

Quickly highlight available resources within your team

Save time scrolling through entire teams and quickly narrow down your team by availability or utilization levels.

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How does the capacity finder work?

Take a team of any size and filter that team down by only the people you are most interested in seeing and have availability for your desired date range.

Instant availability insights

Find who’s available. Filter the schedule and return results based on the availability required.

Team transparency

Maximize your team’s utilization and availability transparency. Quickly identify any gaps in the schedule, fill them new project work.

Target date range

Select from pre formatted options or customize a date range for a real time view of resource availability or utilization rates in the schedule.

Filter Teams by Utilization

Quick measure team performance. Anyone over scheduled this week? Do you have people that can be allocated more tasks?

Built in templates

At the click of a button. Quick access pre-formatted templates to check for availability and utilization of the team.

Seamless integration

Use the builder to combine with smart schedules, custom fields and smart groups for the ultimate smart scheduling experience.

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Who’s Available? 

ONLY SHOW AVAILABLE RESOURCES 

Activate the Capacity Finder to quickly view resources availability by hours. No more guessing games, a clear and precise overview of resources who are actually available for scheduling to project bookings. With the Capacity Finder, you will receive a real time, filtered schedule based on the criteria applied. Select from a number of availability filters and date range options to apply to your schedule. Capture your teams availability and capacity to assess when you can next schedule a project.

When have you the capacity to take on a new project?

Availability

Who’s available? Show me Designers in New York available with with 50+ hours next month?

Utilization

How well are the team performing? Show me anyone with less than 70% utilization rate this month.

Capacity Planning

Use the smart filters to aid capacity planning teams and projects

Filter by Utilization

FILTER SCHEDULE BY UTILIZATION RATE

Install the Capacity Finder to quickly assess team performance, resource utilization rates and manage workloads. Monitor the forecasted utilization rate directly within the schedule or via reports and dashboard. Select a date range and utilization rate to filter the schedule for defined results. Use the dynamic utilization scale to adjust the scheduler results.

Free Capacity Planning Templates 

HUB PLANNER PROVIDE YOU WITH 4 PRE DEFINED CAPACITY PLANNING TEMPLATES

To get your started, we’ve created 4 different capacity planning templates to help get you on your way. Check team availability and utilization in just one click.

  • Available Resources
  • Fully Booked Resources
  • Over Utilized Resources
  • Under Utilized Resources

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Available Resources

Show Resources with availability great than 0 hours

Fully Booked Resources

Filter the schedule to show resources equal to 0 hours availability

Over Utilized Resources

Show all resources with a utilizied rate greater than 100%

Under Utilized Resource

Filter the schedule to detail resources with a utilization rate less than 100%

Target Date Range

ASSESS CAPACITY OVER SPECIFIC DATE RANGES

Specify a date range to apply to your capacity finder. The Capacity Finder allows you to quickly focus on a date range chosen. For example, looking at forward dates down the pipeline to assess the supply and demand. Have you the available team members on the schedule to meet the project demand?

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Insights to Inefficiencies

USE CAPACITY PLANNING TO IMPROVE BUSINESS PROCESSES

Monitor the capacity planning schedules and reports to assess business practices and processes. There are valuable insights available within the reports, dashboards and schedule, why not utilize the data to improve your resource scheduling efficiency and project planning. Dashboards and Reports will quickly delivery key data on utilzation rates, availability and capacity.

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Smart Resource Management 

COMBINE WITH SMART SCHEDULES, CUSTOM FIELDS AND SMART GROUPS FOR THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE SCHEDULING EXPERIENCE

Combine the Capacity Finder with Hub Planner’s most popular features for the ultimate scheduling tool. Build and save project groups, teams and schedules based on unique customized filters set by you.

NY Designers available next week

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Dynamic Capacity Bar 

DETAIL RESOURCE AVAILABLITY 

The Hub Planner Capacity Bar helps the resource planner to assess the teams availability and capacity to take on more work. Working like a traffic light system, the capacity bar will quickly indicate whether the resource is under or over utilized against their capacity. Multiple options are available to suit your preferred set up.

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Free Trial of the Capacity Finder 

TRY OUT THE CAPACITY FINDER FOR FREE

Enjoy a 30 Day Free Trial of the Capacity Finder. See how you can take advantage of resource capacity planning.

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Setup the Capacity Finder 

INSTALL HUB PLANNER’S CAPACITY FINDER

The Capacity Finder premium extension needs to be installed before it can be used. Once the extension is installed, you will have the Capacity Finder active icon within the scheduler, the sidebar and enabled in the Scheduler Builder.

Knowledge Base for the Capacity Finder

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KNOWLEDGE BASE

For all you need to know about Capacity Planning Resources, check out the Hub Planner Capacity Finder Knowledge Base.

REPORTS

Hub Planner Reports provide teams with vital insights into how well your team are performing.

WHAT’S NEW

Stay on top of all the latest news, feature updates and new releases from Hub Planner via the Blog