Allocating Plant Manpower Resources to Multi-Project Requirements

摘要

At the Mound Facility of Monsanto Research Corporation, the problem of scheduling and coordinating numerous manpower resources within their matrix organization has been eased considerably by the Manpower Resource Planning (MRP) System. The system has proven to be successful in promoting the timely completion of plant engineering projects. The system is straightforward. First, the available manpower resources in mandays are identified. Second, the manpower requirements of all the major projects are identified. Then, the requirements for the individual projects are totaled and compared with the available resources. If available manpower does not meet the project requirements, area engineers meet to resolve the manpower conflicts for the tradesmen and other hourly resources. The supervisors for the discipline engineering groups and draftsmen resolve any conflicts within their resources. Requirements and resources are matched by rescheduling projects to reduce requirements, by assigning overtime, or by subcontracting work to increase the resources. The plan developed is then reviewed by management before it is distributed for use in scheduling work. The procedural steps of the MRP concept are illustrated. (ERA citation 07:055909)