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Multi-Year Forecasting for Smarter Field Service Planning

Plan capital works, maintenance, and recurring jobs from five years down to the day — with budget drawdowns, resource alignment, and full visibility.

Dusk FSM delivers powerful multi-year forecasting tools for field service, utilities, and asset teams — helping you plan smarter and deliver faster.

From capital upgrades to vegetation clearing and compliance work, teams gain real-time visibility into forecasted and active jobs. Materials, budgets, and crews are aligned ahead of time — reducing delays, manual effort, and rework.

Forecast Workload 5 Years in Advance

Plan major capital projects with confidence using long-term forecasting tools. Visualize multi-year work programs across teams and geographies.

Break Plans Down to Daily Execution

Seamlessly move from years to days. Convert high-level budgets into month-by-month and daily tasks with live tracking and performance updates.

Draw Down on Budgeted Items in Real-Time

Track material and financial usage across your forecasts. As jobs complete, auto-adjust remaining budgets and item allocations — like power poles or equipment.

Multi-Year Forecasting Settings — define skills, columns, fiscal periods

Set the Rules, Get Predictable Outcomes

Establish hours per day, skills, fiscal years, and planning columns once — so every forecast and roll-up follows the same, trusted logic.

  • 📅 Budget Alignment: Align to budget cycles for cleaner approvals
  • 🧩 Standardized Inputs: Reduce rework with consistent planning fields
  • 📈 Scalable Forecasting: Scale forecasting across teams and programs
Data import and cleaning grid for forecasts

Clean Data In, Confident Plans Out

Import tasks, dates, costs, and assets in bulk. Fix issues quickly so every downstream view — capacity, costs, and budgets — is accurate.

  • 📥 Fast Imports: Template-based import for speed
  • 🧼 Data Integrity: On-the-spot cleaning to maintain integrity
  • ♻️ Scenario Flexibility: Iterate scenarios without starting over
Map of forecasted assets and work locations

Put Resources Where They’ll Have the Biggest Impact

See asset locations, regional demand, and clusters. Plan depots, travel, and crews with fewer miles and faster response.

  • 🔥 Hotspot Visibility: Spot hotspots and balance territory coverage
  • ⛽ Lower Costs: Reduce travel time and fuel costs
  • 🎯 Precise Planning: Filter by zone or asset class to refine plans
Calendar capacity view — skills per day and public holidays

Know Your Capacity Before You Commit

Validate delivery using skills-by-day counts. Public holidays are factored automatically, so you promise dates you can keep.

  • 📆 Flexible Views: Month/Week/Day toggles for near-term execution
  • 👷 Crew Safeguards: Avoid over-committing key trades and crews
  • 🔄 Aligned Planning: Simple alignment between planners and dispatch
Pivot Table — slice forecasts by fiscal year, project and cost

Answer Budget Questions in Seconds

Drag and drop fields to compare fiscal years, projects, costs, quantities, and codes — no export needed.

  • ⚡ Real-Time Summaries: Instant roll-ups for executives and finance
  • 🛑 Early Warnings: Spot variances early to avoid end-of-year panic
  • 📚 Audit Support: Support audits with clear, repeatable logic
Utilisation — colour-coded capacity, hours, FTE, costs and budget drawdowns

See Risks Before They Happen

The Utilisation view rolls everything up — hours available, FTE required, monthly costs, and budget drawdowns. Colours show over/under capacity at a glance.

  • ⚖️ Load Balancing: Balance workloads across months and crews
  • 🛠️ Execution Ready: Convert budget items to projects when ready
  • 📤 Cost Smoothing: Move items out to smooth spend and delivery

Explore Forecasting Benefits

Plan smarter across capital works, compliance, vegetation, and recurring service jobs 📍

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Capital Works Planning

Plan infrastructure and upgrade programs 3–5 years ahead, with budget alignment.

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Vegetation Management

Organize corridor clearing cycles by year and region. Trigger jobs from forecasts.

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Compliance Maintenance

Ensure inspections and servicing align with regulated intervals across assets.

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Multi-Year Scheduling

Balance contractor and staff capacity with rolling forecasts and shift planning.

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Material Demand Forecasting

Predict and reserve items like poles or meters across fiscal years and zones.

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Budget Reconciliation

Compare actuals vs forecasted costs in real-time for better financial control.

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Change Control & Adjustments

Amend or reschedule forecasted work with a full audit trail and approvals.

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AI Forecasting Insights

Leverage AI to identify gaps, delays, or overcapacity before they impact delivery.

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