Resource Manager For Excel

Resource Manager for Excel (RMX) offers MRP and Shop Scheduling on a flexible and powerful platform. Ambitious Operations Management students can use RMX to gain valuable hands-on experience in mastering important skills in many areas of Manufacturing Planning, Scheduling, and Execution.

With RMX supporting up to a million rows of data, and with Excel 360 fully cloud compatible, you can even tackle big data applications and share results on the web. A fully functional free trial is available for immediate download with access to user manual, quick start tutorial, and a full set of training videos.

Keep US in mind when you are fully engaged at work and looking for tools to improve your production scheduling. Resource Manager-DB is a wonderful upgrade of RMX and is a strategic complement to other plant systems for APS and MES applications.

RESOURCE MANAGER FOR EXCEL: SUMMARY

Resource Manager for Excel (RMX) features a Bill Of Resource (BOR) that allows any combination of Workcenters and/or Products. RMX is ideal for companies who have no formal systems (ERP, MRP, etc.) as tool to plan for and implement those systems, or to use to fill in any existing gaps for production scheduling. With the BOR concept, you can manage both Material Requirements Planning as well as Production Planning and Scheduling considering Finite Capacity.. For those applications that have a need for multiple concurrent users, improved security (over Excel), seamless integration with other systems, and advanced planning and scheduling options, Resource Manager-DB (RMDB) is the best choice.

“Adaptable and Flexible”Resource Manager for Excel is a great solution for manufacturers who are not ready for a full-blown MRPII, ERP, or Shop Management System but realize the value of effective scheduling and planning.  Resource Manager for Excel is unique in that it easily adapts to the way people are running their business today”.  Mike Parks, Director of Georgia Tech’s CMIT, an affiliate of the NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership.

Features

  • Excel add-On
  • Routings and Job Scheduling
  • Finite Capacity Scheduling
  • Forward & Reverse Scheduling
  • Bills-Of-Material
  • Robust Routings
  • Basic MRP (Material Requirements Planning)
  • Large data model support
  • Powerful and fast scheduling engine

Student Free Trial

Resource Manager for Excel: In Depth

Overview

Resource Manager is the only low-cost, planning and scheduling solution that works for all manufacturing enterprises. There are two versions available, depending on your needs:

Resource Manager for Excel (RM-X) RM-X is an add-on to Excel (version 97 and greater) and is designed for single concurrent users who are familiar with Excel. A fully functional trial is available for immediate download.

By combining ease-of-use for small to medium sized manufacturing operations with powerful reporting and open integration for larger operations, Resource Manager guarantees the power and productivity of high-end systems without the complications and failure rate.

Also, Resource Manager -DB (RMDB), an elegant upgrade from RMX, written in Visual Basic, utilizes and includes a run-time version of Microsoft Access database and is also available with SQL Server compatibility. Resource Manager DB (RMDB) contains all the functionality of RM-X. Just like RM-X, Resource Manager DB leverages Excel for reporting.

These combined offerings provide you unsurpassed flexibility for leveraging Excel on local PCs, and sharing data across a network. Finally, you can achieve your goals of an affordable planning and scheduling solution that quickly adapts to your needs.

By combining ease-of-use for small to medium sized manufacturing operations with powerful reporting and open integration for larger operations, Resource Manager guarantees the power and productivity of high-end systems without the complications and failure rate.

Works The Way You Do

Resource Manager is the only solution that is designed to adapt to your specific needs, addressing the key issues facing your operation.

Immediate, Guaranteed Benefits

Resource Manager delivers the help you need to effectively plan and schedule your company’s resources, without the time, money and upkeep of traditional options.

Finally, you can quit struggling with time consuming decisions such as what to buy, what to make, when to buy it, and when to make it.

Resource Manager adds powerful MRP scheduling, planning and/or tracking capabilities to your existing system (be it manual or other), for less than any other option – satisfaction guaranteed.

Best of All

Resource Manager runs with Microsoft Office, so you are already familiar with entering data, printing reports, graphing, and more!