Five employees, six construction sites, one week. You know the chaos on Monday mornings. Our interactive capacity planner immediately shows where bottlenecks arise before the first brush is wet.
Try the planner for freeMost craft businesses plan their week using paper, whiteboards, or Excel. This works until the first sick note arrives, an urgent order comes in, or two journeymen are on the same construction site. Capacity planning is not a luxury; it is the basis for on-time work.
The challenge
Three typical problems that we see in almost every craft business.
Problem 01
A journeyman is scheduled to work on two construction sites. You only notice this when the customer calls and asks where your team is.
Problem 02
The trainee is sent to learn decorative filling techniques because the calendar looked empty. Result: rework, frustration, wasted time.
Problem 03
On Mondays, your people wait for material, on Fridays they have nothing to do. Utilization fluctuates, even though there are enough orders.
How it works
Three steps to structured resource planning.
Record skills, weekly capacity, and current orders. Set it up once, then just update it.
Assign employees to projects on a daily and hourly basis. The skill matching feature warns you in case of mismatches.
Overutilization is marked in red, idle capacity is visible, and KPIs are updated in real time.
Interactive demo planner
The demo is pre-filled with realistic data from a painting company. Click on "Load sample data" to start. All data remains in your browser.
Your data is only stored locally in your browser.
The interactive capacity planner works best in landscape mode or on a desktop. Open it in a new tab for the best experience.
Open plannersLess downtime thanks to structured planning with
Instead of 45 minutes,
for weekly planning
Double bookings
thanks to visual overview
's skill coverage visible at a glance
Who is this for?
The demo shows a painting company. The planning logic works for every trade.
Facade, interior, decoration
New construction, renovation, maintenance
Furniture, interior design, assembly
Heating, plumbing, air conditioning
Maintenance, new construction, paving
Walls, ceilings, insulation
The professional solution
This free planner shows the principle. For real-world operation, you need more.
Multi-week planning
Advance planning over weeks and months with dependencies
automatic notifications Changes to the schedule are immediately sent to the employees concerned.
Mobile app for construction managers
Always have your deployment plan with you, even on the construction site
integration Connection to time tracking, invoicing, ERP
That's Smartsheet + Lighthouse Consultings. As a Smartsheet Gold Partner, we bring structure to your resource planning: from the initial assessment to the ongoing system.
Reference
FEW Automotive used to plan resources across five locations on three continents in separate Excel files. Today, they manage everything from a central Smartsheet dashboard. Same principle, enterprise scale.
FEW Automotive Group, automotive industry
20+ years of manufacturing and operations. Smartsheet Gold Partner. Forbes Business Council. ENGAGE 2025 speaker. DHBW lecturer in operations management.
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Real-time workload visibility, skill matching, and automatic bottleneck alerts for your entire team.
FEW Automotive is currently managing over 200 projects across 30 locations.
