The Project Scheduling and Decision Mechanism Based on the Multi-Resource Leveling

Except for optimizing the schedule of a project, managers tend to enhance the utilization of resources and reduce the usage fluctuation of resources. This paper is to construct a multiresource leveling model as a decision mechanism and strategy for managers to control projects. In the multi-resource model, the resource leveling rate, RLr, is established and the smaller the leveling rate, the more resources’ usage of a project is leveled. The multiresource leveling model will help managers to control and manipulate the implementation and usage of different types of resources for better project scheduling. In this research, a global search to find the optimal solution was conducted and the software Visual Basic (VB) was used as the programming language to perform the searching. A practical example was provided to test and verify the model and obtained excellence performance result.

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