Broadcast Planning Solution

The Quintiq Broadcast Planning Solution (BPS)

The Quintiq Broadcast Planning Solution offers multi-resource planning and scheduling capabilities in a single integrated system for the real-time planning of both staff and resources. The Quintiq Broadcast Planning Solution provides the most cost-effective and productive match between operational requirements and available resources.

The Flexibility and Intelligence You Need

Many planning software packages have limited capabilities and provide impractical schedules because they are based on static data. In comparison, Quintiq's advanced, multi-resource and real-time planning software has the flexibility needed to create and modify service and work schedules in real-time.

Quintiq understands that each organization has its own planning preferences and requirements. The Quintiq Broadcasting Planning Solution can be customized to fit your unique business model and company logic. Using advanced algorithms and built-in intelligence, the software creates optimal schedules specifically designed to meet the needs of your organization. In addition, the Quintiq Broadcasting Planning Solution offers a treasure chest of management information, deployment analyses, and availability and planning trends. The result: greater control and efficiency.

Key Benefits of the Quintiq Broadcast Planning Solution

The complex and dynamic broadcasting environment, particularly in program, newsroom and post production studios, demands flexibility in scheduling to accommodate last minute and short-term changes. Quintiq offers a flexible, multi-resource planning and scheduling solution to optimize your media business processes.

Reactive and pro-active planning capabilities are essential to broadcasting planning departments. On one hand, you need to respond quickly to sudden changes, urgent demands and shifting priorities. On the other hand, you need to prevent future bottlenecks due to unexpected events such as employee illness or broken equipment. As a fully automated solution with an intuitive user interface, the Quintiq Broadcasting Planning Solution, helps planners easily become experts in both reactive and pro-active planning.

With the Quintiq Broadcast Planning Solution, all planners have access to the same real-time data regarding studios, equipment, available personnel, outside broadcast vehicles and current shootings. All resource availability information is integrated into one centralized location, which greatly simplifies the scheduling process. With a clear overview of resources, double booking and over booking are eliminated. The Quintiq Broadcast Planning Solution features powerful tools that oversee rotating shifts, warn of any potential conflicts and automatically match staff with task requirements. With full transparency across your operation, you will be able to cut costs and raise employee satisfaction.

Features and Benefits of the Quintiq Broadcast Planning Solution

• Competence-based employee planning
  Assign staff according to required skills.
  
  
• Multi-depot equipment management for one or more decentralized warehouses
  Manage assets such as outside broadcast vehicles and studios more efficiently. Reduce equipment use and employ fewer external resources.
  
  
• Take into account employee preferences
  Raise employee satisfaction through better employee planning.
  
  
• Full transparency and real-time planning
  Make the consequences of planning changes/modifications immediately clear.
  
  
• Increased Productivity
  Save valuable program production time through fewer scheduling errors. Always have the right person and equipment at the right place at the right time.
  
  
• Cost reductions
  Reduce operation costs by as much as 10%. Achieve the most cost-effective and productive match between operational requirements and staff and resource
  availability.
  
  
• Improved program quality
  Improve program quality by capitalizing on the unique talents of staff members. Customers will see and value the difference.