Planera revolutionizes construction scheduling with industry-first integrated solution

Planera, a leading provider of construction CPM scheduling and planning solutions, has announced a groundbreaking innovation: the industry’s first full-stack construction planning tool. This solution seamlessly integrates master and working schedules, enabling unified management of both high-level planning (Levels 1-3) and detailed planning (Levels 4-5).

Planera’s Working Schedule addresses a critical pain point in construction scheduling – the disconnect between master and working schedules. Traditionally, these schedules resided in separate software programs, forcing contractors to manage them manually. This siloed approach led to delays, information gaps, and decreased profitability. Planera’s solution breaks down these barriers by unifying both schedules within a single platform, empowering construction teams to manage everything seamlessly.

“The way construction scheduling has been managed is not just inefficient– it is broken,” said Nitin Bhandari, CEO and co-founder of Planera. “Both master and working schedules are integral elements to a successful project, and it is absolutely necessary to have visibility around both, as well as the ability to manage them together, without extensive manual effort. Planera’s Working Schedule provides the ability for both portions of project scheduling to be created and managed in one platform, establishing an automatic link between the two and mitigating the biggest issue faced by the industry which is high latency in information flow.”

Improved Communication and Efficiency

This innovative tool connects two key elements of construction projects:

• Master schedules: These outline the ideal, planned sequence of events.
• Working schedules: These track the project’s actual progress.

Previously, legacy systems often generated master schedules, while working schedules were managed in separate programs, like spreadsheets, with no integration. This necessitated constant switching between programs and manual effort to track changes and updates across the two schedules.

“Planera’s Working Schedule is exactly the tool we’ve been searching for to integrate our high-level schedule with our day-to-day operations,” said Sam Stone, Innovation Leader at Stacy Witbeck. “It finally bridges the gap between the scheduler’s CPM schedule and the actual work happening in the field, eliminating disconnects between the theoretical schedule and reality. With the Working Schedule, construction teams can now align their look-ahead planning with the master CPM schedule.”

“Planera’s Working Schedule is a game changer for construction planning and scheduling,” said James Pease, Lean IPD expert with UCSF Health. “Never before have contractors been able to seamlessly integrate the two major types of schedules. This saves time, money, and effort for teams who no longer have to switch between different project management software or spreadsheets to ensure a project is on track for timely completion with all of the manpower and resources necessary.”

Planera’s Working Schedule streamlines workflows, eliminates software switching, and ensures projects stay on track with proper resource allocation for timely completion.

For more information on Planera’s Working Schedule, visit https://www.planera.io/working-schedule