Plateau Schedule Builder saves significant time and associated costs of scheduling large number of training resources. Plateau Schedule Builder provides customers the ability to build efficient training schedules based on additional training demands and the availability of resources (e.g., instructors, simulators, classrooms, equipment, etc.). The product enables users to create new schedules based on different parameters and assumptions for demand and resource constraints. Plateau Schedule Builder can generate multiple proposed schedules that customers can review, and then accept the schedule that best meets their needs.

Key Features:

• Training Needs and What-if Planning - Plateau Schedule Builder allows the building of multiple scenarios for current training needs to compare and contrast the scenarios, and then adopt the scenario that best meets the need. Future needs can be planned for resource shortages, organizational growth, or scheduled downtime. Having an understanding of what can be done in these situations, or for establishing a plan for acquiring additional resources, helps prevent last minute, inefficient changes to training schedules.
• Collaborative Scheduling - Engaging multiple people in the process of creating a new schedule allows the load to be spread among individuals, or for each person to focus on specific parts of the process. Collaborative scheduling also allows for peer review of schedules, and a sharing of best practices for developing efficient training plans.
• Multiple Scheduling Goals - The most effective training plans balance different organizational goals, such as duration, cost, utilization, etc. Plateau Schedule Builder automates the balancing of multiple goals for the scenario, and allows minor adjustments to these goals based upon the desired result.
• Long Range Planning - Increasing the timeframe for a training scenario allows the better balancing of the needs of multiple groups with the capacity of training resources. Focusing on the short-term can increase the likelihood of adjusting the training schedule multiple times in a reactive mode, which causes disruption for the students as well as the training resources.
• Shared Resources - In some cases, there will always be a set of training resources that are required by multiple groups, and this can increase the amount of time required to construct an efficient training schedule. By combining multiple training needs into one scenario, resources can be shared evenly, distributed to specific groups, or a combination of these.
• Resource Constraints - In an ideal situation, all training resources are 100% available and training can be scheduled without any constraints. But in most cases, the resources are not fully available, and creating a schedule around unavailable times makes the process very challenging and time consuming. Plateau Schedule Builder is able to handle multiple constraints on the resources, balancing the schedule goal and allocation limits.
• Data Security - Plateau Schedule Builder allows the administrator to limit access to specific training resources, or to a subset of items and curricula. Additional workflows for Plateau Schedule Builder also allow the administrator to limit the types of functions available for each user (e.g. creating scenarios vs. adopting).