Resource Demand Manager

Managing ports and terminals shore-side and sea-side resources according to vessels ETA/ETD and work shifts.

Automate the planning of resources, whether it is cranes, people or facilities in your port or your terminal; refresh the planned resources as vessels' ETA/ETD change and share your plan with your colleagues and external stakeholders.

Resource Demand Manager provides you with:

your own set of resources reflecting type of planning work your department/ function carries out
rules for automatic forecast of resource volumes per vessel type, size, shipping line or service
automatic accumulated forecast of resources volumes across whole port or terminal
instantly refreshed resource forecast whenever ETA/ETD changes
graphic overview of forecasted resource peaks
planning of individual resources
exception management-style adjusted planning of auto-forecasted resources
overview of accumulated resources necessary per shift
overview of accumulated planned resources per type
calculation of planned resource utilization
distribution of forecasted and planned resources to internal and external stakeholders
interface to LMS, labour management system

For more details, check the process support overview to get an impression of how the resources are managed.

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Hot FAQ about ARL Resource Demand Manager

What if ETA & ETD change?

That is the whole point of computer supported resource planning - ETA and ETD ARE changing! You just need to update information and resources will be distributed correctly to the appropriate time slots.

If the ETA/ETD are maintained in a separate system, import an XML file with fresh ETA/ETDs into the ARL Resource Demand Manager.

How can I share the resource plan with my colleagues?

ARL Resource Demand Manager creates an excel matrix with time and resource count per resource type, which you can email or fax to your colleagues and partners. You can also import forecast overview as a pdf file.

What if I use a Labour Management System (LMS) to manage my people resources?

Resource Demand Manager produces an XML file which you can import into your LMS (assuming it can read the format provided) and do your detailed people assignments, salary and overtime management.

What does it cost?

Each deployable solution is charged a license fee depending on the size of your terminal or port operations, which includes one year free support & maintenance. After expiry of one year support & maintenance you will be offered yearly support & maintenance at a cost of 15% of the current license fee.

Tools for Ports and Terminals

The family of tools for ports & terminals includes ARL Berthing Planner with add-ons, ARL Yard mini-Inventory, and ARL Resource Demand Manager.

ARL Yard mini-Inventory

The ARL Yard mini-Inventory keeps track of your container inventory and does simple planning tasks like load lists and gate-pick-up lists. See the Yard mini-Inventory portal for more.

ARL Terminal Berthing Planner

The ARL Terminal Berthing Planner plan your vessels alongside your berth graphically in space and time. See more on the Berthing Planner portal. Whilst the berthing planner support berthing regions and vessel type filters, berth unavailable zones reflecting repairs and crane break-downs, and draft and tidal restrictions, you can choose to add a quay crane planner add-on or the berthing optimizer minimizing the mileage required for your yard equipment servicing your quay cranes.

ARL Resource Demand Manager

The ARL Resource Demand Manager allows you to forecast and plan resources on your terminal. The built-in rules engine automatically forecast the resource demands according to vessel arrivals schedule. Resource planners can assign unnamed and specific resources to the vessels arriving/departing or to work shifts. Identity resource usages peaks in advance and take action. See the Resource Demand Manager portal for more.

ARL RTG Deployer

The ARL RTG Deployer determines the number of RTGs required for the next shifts to service your planned and yet unplanned quay cranes work by reflecting the yard impact time using an math algorithm.
See more on the RTG Deployer portal

ARL RTG Dispatcher

The ARL RTG Dispatcher tells you where and when to dispatch your RTGs ensuring that RTGs are always at the right place at the right time to carry out required work in due time for securing un-interrupted work from your quay cranes. Look for details on the RTG Dispatcher portal. If your fleet of RTGs have been acquired over time, you reflect the individual constraints like height, turning capabilities and more, ensuring only a suitable RTG is dispatched for a work order; you can supplement the automatic dispatching with your own instructions and you can choose the statistics add-on giving you detailed insight in the performance and activities from the past projecting relevant experience into future dispatching.

ARL Yard Clash Predictor

The ARL Yard Clash Predictor detects future yard clashes in advance allowing you to re-plan and avoid clashes and derived waiting time for other yard equipment as well as quay cranes. Details are available on the Yard Clash Predictor portal. Yard Clash Predictor portal