WO2000063819A8 - Method and system for allocating personnel and resources to efficiently complete diverse work assignments - Google Patents

Method and system for allocating personnel and resources to efficiently complete diverse work assignments

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WO2000063819A8
WO2000063819A8 PCT/US2000/007717 US0007717W WO0063819A8 WO 2000063819 A8 WO2000063819 A8 WO 2000063819A8 US 0007717 W US0007717 W US 0007717W WO 0063819 A8 WO0063819 A8 WO 0063819A8
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G Edward Powell
Mark T Lane
Runar Indseth
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Pointserve Inc
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    • G06Q10/06—Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
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    • G06Q10/0631—Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
    • G06Q10/06311—Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
    • G06Q10/063112—Skill-based matching of a person or a group to a task
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    • G06Q10/00—Administration; Management
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    • G06Q10/063—Operations research, analysis or management
    • G06Q10/0631—Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
    • G06Q10/06311—Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
    • G06Q10/063116—Schedule adjustment for a person or group
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    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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Abstract

The present invention provides a method for processing multiple work assignments to a mobile workforce having a plurality of workforce members, see Figure 1. The steps of this method include receiving a first work assignment (10). This work assignment is then examined to determine the type of work assignment, a service assignment or a pooled assignment (12). If the work assignment is a pooled work assignment, the work assignment is placed within a pooled work assignment queue (20). Similarly, if the work assignment is a service work assignment, that assignment is placed within a service work assignment queue (12). The process is interative and additional work assignments may be received and sorted into the proper queues. A schedule may then be created for each individual work force member according to the assignments within the service queue (16). These schedules are examined and periods of availability or slack time are identified (26). These periods of availability or slack time are then filled with work assignments from the pooled queue.
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