Enterprise Project Management Software
and Workforce Management

Enterprise project management software consists of project initiation, planning, resource planning, execution, project collaboration and actual tracking. Project management defines the best practices and standards that facilitate reliable and consistent project launch and delivery.

Workforce Management, which is sometimes referred to as Human Capital Management, is the process of balancing work needs with available resources. It is a planning and accountability framework enabling organizations to ensure that strategic capacity planning objectives are met in an efficient, cost effective manner, while also balancing fairness in human capital management practices and complying with government labor laws.

By focusing on a workflow-driven approach and what they have in common, Tenrox unites enterprise project management and workforce management to provide a complete enterprise project management and workforce management software solution.

Project Workforce Management

Enterprise project management features of Tenrox Project Workforce Management

• Project planning: plan projects at the task level
• Resource assignment: assign tasks to resources
• Project tracking: track planned versus actual time spent on tasks
• Collaboration: enable collaboration between project managers and project team members by providing project dashboards, online status reports and risk/issue tracking
• Earned Value: combines planned work actually performed, ahead/behind schedule, and over/under budget to calculate how much work is actually accomplished and estimate an actual project completion date

Workforce management features of Tenrox Project Workforce Management

• Workforce planning: skill and availability management system keeps track of employee skills sets and availability for capacity planning, training and hiring decisions
• Time and attendance: track and approve employee work time, overtime and leave time. Validated time data is sent to a payroll system to process payroll (see Note 1)
• Time-off, Leave management: manage vacation time accrual, holidays, sick or medical leave and other authorized time-off (see Note 1)
• Cost tracking: maintain resource cost information including exempt/non-exempt status, hourly rate or salary, bonuses, and other pay related rules

Note 1: Ensure compliance with labor laws including overtime pay, and paid/unpaid leave regulations.

In addition to the above, the following processes, which fit naturally into project and workforce management, are also automated:

Travel and entertainment (T&E) expense management: import credit card transactions, manage multiple currency expense reports or cash advances. Reimburse employees for approved expenses using payroll, checks, or other expense reimbursement systems.

Billing support: same process and time information used to track project and resource costs can be used to track billable time. Project workforce management supports billing rules such as hourly, fixed, pro-rated, cost plus, and split billing and non time related billing such as date-based, milestone or recurring billing.

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