Resource management method and apparatus
CA 2455494 A1 · Owner: British Telecommunications Public Limited Company · Inventors: Dorne, Raphael Jean Henri; Owusu, Gilbert Kwame; Lesaint, David
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The invention relates to resource management and describes a method and , apparatus to be used in planning of resource deployment. In an embodiment of the invention, the number and characteristics of forecasted and/or unprocessed jobs falling within a time period such as a week or a month, are compared to , resource availability and status for that time period in terms of attributes , such as location skills and time. A cost - in terms of jobs that cannot be carried out, given current resource availability and status - is evaluated. Preferably the attributes are stored as resource records so that there is one , resource record per resource and the attributes of at least some of the …
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