Profit Scheduler for Meetings (PSforM) is
a sophisticated conference scheduling software used
by major trade
organizations. Profit Scheduler for Meetings permits
the optimal scheduling of thousands of sessions matching
buyers and sellers based on scheduling constraints
and product criteria.
Success story: Profit Scheduler
for Meetings was used to schedule appointments between
buyers and sellers for
National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) annual
MarketPlace Conference, held in San Diego, CA in June
2003. This is a 2-day conference brings new products
and vendors together with buyers for guaranteed pre-arranged
appointments using Profit Point’s PSforM. Each
Vendor indicates the products they are selling and
ranks the products in matter of priority for individual
meetings.
Each Buyer indicates their products of interest. Eight
thousand appointments were scheduled between buyer
and seller for a specific time block and a specific
product.
Benefits
Allows the user to quickly and efficiently schedule
appointments between attendees at large events considering
individual preferences and time availability. Allows
user to add or delete participants without modifying
the schedule integrity of the remaining participants.
Can be linked to a web-based reservation system.
Features
- Uses a proprietary linear algorithm to
give the user quick results
- Includes user directed
optimization parameter options
- Can specify number
and time of work breaks
- Can run from scratch (typically
used when results have not been distributed)
- Can
use a saved schedule (to modify and/or add meetings
to an existing schedule)
- Can specify max
meetings per participant
- Can replace participants
without revising schedules for others
- Can run what-if
scenarios
- Re-optimize feature to fill in all the
available time slots after changes have been
made
- Generates customized meeting tables and schedules
reports
- Links to MS Excel spreadsheets
for more reporting capabilities
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