Planner
See rotations and build the schedule that keeps crews covered.
See the operational picture
- Check who is on board todayRead the live operations overview in Markular Planner to see who is on each installation, who is available, unavailable, or restricted, and trip status.
- Browse the personnel overviewRead the personnel overview in Markular Planner to see each person on a calendar across dates, with their planned activities and availability over time.
- Update a person's trip statusMove a person's trip status forward as they mobilise and travel in Markular Planner, and correct it backward with a reason if you set it by mistake.
Plan rotations and the schedule
- How rotations, demands, and assignments fit togetherUnderstand the three building blocks of Markular Planner, and how the platform turns a coverage need into named personnel scheduled day by day.
- Read the schedule boardOpen the Markular Planner schedule board, read the Gantt of who is on and off, filter it down, and see which people can fill a slot.
- Assign a person to a jobPlace personnel on the Markular schedule board, resize and move their bars, preview a move before you commit, and resolve scheduling conflicts.
- Find the best person for a demandWhen you fill a demand in Markular Planner, use the ranked candidate list to compare people on competency match and availability, and place the best fit.
- Open a person's year planOpen one person's year in Markular Planner, add a rotation, shift, job, or activity, set part-time periods, and leave a work note for the crew.
- Set on/off days and add activitiesSet a person's on and off days from their year plan in Markular Planner, and add day activities such as a course, travel, or standby.
- Bulk-assign a rotationAssign a rotation to many people at once in Markular Planner, preview the outcome before you apply it, and commit the change when it looks right.
Set up and run jobs
- How jobs, demands, and crew changes workLearn how jobs, demands, and crew changes fit together in Markular Planner, and how they connect to the roles you set up and the schedule you build.
- Create a jobSet up a new job in Markular Planner, from its dates and facility through to its first staffing need, so it is ready to build a schedule around.
- Add a staffing need to a jobAdd a crew demand to a job in Markular Planner, set how many people each shift needs, and adjust the headcount later as the job firms up.
- Move a job to new datesChange a job's dates in Markular Planner and use the impact preview to move, trim, or hold each person, reading every warning before you commit the change.
- Find and view jobsSearch and filter the job list in Markular Planner, then read jobs laid out over time on the job plan timeline, all without changing anything.
- Export a crew-change manifestView the crew changes on a job in Markular Planner and export a manifest of who is arriving and leaving on a chosen crew change, ready to share.
- Manage trips and crew-change logisticsOrganise how crew reach a job in Markular Planner by recording travel times (left heliport, arrived rig, and the return legs) and keeping each trip's status up to date.
Report on operations
- Confirm who is on each installationRun the Personnel On Board (POB) report in Markular Planner to list who is on each installation for a chosen date, filter the list, and export it to Excel.
- Run the hours and overtime reportSee how much of each person's annual man-year the plan has used, how much is left, and the overtime building up as of a date you choose, then export to Excel.
- Run the utilization reportRun the utilization report in Markular Planner to see how much of your crew's available time is planned over a chosen period, by department or by person.
- Other Planner reportsA reference to the remaining Markular Planner reports, showing what each one contains and any add-on or permission it needs.
Set up Planner
- Set up facilities, job roles, and job typesCreate the facilities, job roles, and job types that jobs and demands reference in Markular Planner, so your team can start planning against real needs.
- Understand Planner permissionsA reference to the six Planner permissions in Markular and what each one unlocks, so an admin can grant exactly the access each person needs.
- Manage shifts and rotationsDefine the shift patterns and rotation cycles that the rest of Markular Planner uses to schedule crew, so your planning runs on real working patterns.
- Manage customersAdd and maintain the customers that Planner jobs are created for in Markular, so every job can point at a real customer from the start.
- Map HR positions to job rolesLink a person's People position to a Planner job role in Markular so the schedule knows which people can fill each role it asks for.
- Set up activity typesA reference to activity types in Markular Planner, the categories of time you place on the schedule, and how they appear in the schedule and its legend.