What are the major issues in manpower planning for the transportation industry?
Controlling balance, to ensure that supply of crew meets demand, is a priority for all of the transport industry. There are short, mid, and long-term aspects relating to this and transport operators generally divide and manage planning processes in a number of different ways.

How can Carmen Consulting assist clients with their needs in manpower planning?
The best way is to do client specific projects that focus on solving each problem encountered in a step by step process.

That doesn't sound very cost-efficient?
With extensive experience and access to different software modules it is often not necessary to start from scratch when we approach a problem. Being a part of Carmen allows us to see and understand how manpower planning relates to the pairing and rostering processes within an airline. Our ambition is not only to develop the systems, but also to understand the pros and cons of different ways of working with manpower planning. There are too many great solutions around that don't fit anywhere!

So, how do you solve these problems?
Carmen Consulting is experienced in analyzing a business problem by finding the real issues in an operation, and then continuing the work by going to the next step where a system is specified, designed, and implemented. It takes advanced technical skills along with experience in optimization, modelling and a keen interest in business problems to effectively deliver a system.

What else has Carmen Consulting been working with recently?
We have been working a lot with the rail industry on optimal freight car distribution, analyzing the cost structure within a railway and interfacing a freight car distribution optimizer with a traffic simulation system. We have applied some of this experience to Carmen's Deutsche Bahn project where we have been responsible for solving the problem of inconsistent and incomplete timetable, locomotive and wagon data. We have built a solution that takes every relevant input and automatically corrects or reports all inconsistencies before it is imported to the Carmen Pairing and Rostering systems.

Erik Hasselberg, has been at Carmen for the past ten years. His current challenge is to show transport operators how Manpower Planning can assist in dramatically increase the value of their businesses.

Erik Hasselberg, Managing Director of Carmen Consulting

If you have any questions or require more information contact Erik at [email protected]