With ever growing competition in the global market, it has become critical for organisations to manage and utilise scarce resources more efficiently and smartly. Any improvement in resource utilisation adds directly to the bottom line of the organisation and provides required competitive edge against its competitors. So the role of the resource planner/scheduler in an organisation has become more critical and challenging than before. Resource planner/scheduler is not only expected to identify and schedule right resource to the right job but is also required to ensure optimum utilisation of resources, balance work load across the organisation, forecast resource shortfall or excess, track actual resource usage etc. It is difficult to address these new challenges using traditional resource planning spreadsheet or simple calendaring tools. It requires dedicated tool which is powerful and designed from scratch to manage and achieve best utilisation of the scarce re simulation software sources and provide following facilities.Easily identify the right resource from BIG pool of resources based on role, skill, availability etc. It is important that the tool helps in identifying the right resource from BIG pool of resources across the organisation, where resources may be present in different departments, teams, offices, cities, countries etc. It should be possible to filter right resource from the pool based on skill, training, role, availability etc. With centralised database across the organisation, it should be possible to get this information at click of a button.Easily allocate and manage resources against the jobs with simple drag and dropOnce the right resource has been identified, it should be easy to allocate the resource to the job, modify the allocation, reallocate to another person with help of simple drag and drop. This is crucial especially when the planner/scheduler is dealing with large pool of resources across the organisation.