A project managment system for time planning and resources allocation

When comes to the efficient management and planning of a company's resources and workload many modern businesses are facing a serious problem, which can be the cause for their failure. Lack of planning is certain to result in shortages, reduced effectiveness and delays. This paper presents two types of analyses - an overview of existing solutions and an organization survey. Several Enterprise Resource Planning systems are reviewed and their positives and negatives are compared and rated by a set of criteria. The survey of the work processes of a small organization among with interviews with employees gives an insight of the problems and needs of a small-to-medium size businesses. The two sets of research complete the functional requirements for a project management system that can allocate resources more effectively. A web-based solution is proposed and is viewed through the prism of the whole business process and not just as an independent unit, although the presented application can be either a standalone system or a module of an ERP system with the project management being an operative module. Experimentally the project management system is implemented in the surveyed company replacing an existing PMS systems, the results of an additional survey are presented and analyzed as well.