Move Management / Enterprise Move Management

Enterprise Move Management: Application Overview

The ARCHIBUS Enterprise Move Management application provides a web-based application for managing enterprise moves. You can move employees, teams, equipment, furniture, and rooms by working with two types of moves:

Move Type Description How Tracked
Individual Move

Moves an individual employee, equipment item, asset, or room.

Tracked in a move order.

Group Move

Moves multiple employees and assets at the same time. For example, you can request a group move when you want to move an entire department to a new location.

Tracked in a group move project.

Each item to move is tracked with a move order.

As a move progresses, the automated workflow rules ensure that the appropriate employees and consultants receive email notifications so that the move can efficiently progress to the next phase.

The Enterprise Move Management application provides a move scenario feature, which you can use to visually compare various proposed layouts of space (layout scenarios) and employee placements (occupancy scenarios). This helps you determine to which locations to move employees. When you are satisfied with a particular move scenario, you can update the group move project with the move scenario's "to" locations.

General Workflow

Prerequisite: Review these concepts:

  1. The business process owner develops the background data that will be required for move requestors, move coordinators, and other users of the Move Management application.
  2. A move is requested. There are a few methods:
  3. The system routes the requested move to a move coordinator, who does the following:
  4. (Optional): For group moves of employees or teams, a move scenario planner, move requestor, or move coordinator can experiment with different scenarios of employee placement to see how to best execute the move. Move scenarios can be added before or after approval.
  5. Move planners work with a move scenario by performing these tasks:

  6. If not auto-approved, the move coordinator routes the move for approval and approving managers approve the move. Once the move is approved, the status is set to Approved.
  7. At any time before issuing the move order, the move coordinator can do the following:
  8. When satisfied with the details of the move order and the schedule for moves, the move coordinator issues the move order.
  9. Craftspersons and movers execute the work and update the assigned move actions.
  10. Ongoing: Data and voice coordinators can edit approved and issued move orders and add the tasks (move actions) required for setting up data and voice communication.
  11. Ongoing: Throughout the process, the move coordinator can: 
  12. When workers complete the move order, the move coordinator completes the move order and closes it.
  13. Executive managers can evaluate move costs and churn rates with the move management reports.

Simplified Workflow Diagram

The diagram below displays a simple Move Management workflow, which covers the basic steps of requesting a move, routing a move for approval, approving a move, issuing a move, completing a move, and closing a move.

Note: The diagram does not include the processes for CAD operators, move scenario planners, craftspersons, and voice and data workers.

Click on a box in the below diagram to see the Help topic for that workflow step.

diagram of move request workflow

Move Management Roles

Users can use the Move Management application to perform various tasks, such as requesting a move, approving a move, editing a move, or examining a move's status. Each user has different move management tasks on their Process Navigator, based upon their role.

Email Notifications

Move requestors, move coordinators, project managers, department contacts, approving managers, and craftspersons are sent email notifications at various stages throughout the move process.

For example, the move requestor and department contact are sent an email notification after a move request is made by the move requestor. Similarly, after the move coordinator has routed a move for approval, emails are sent to the move requestor, the approving managers, the department contact, and the move coordinator (individual moves) or project manager (group moves). Email notifications are also sent after the move is approved, after the move is issued, and after the move is closed.

Data Transfer

Many move forms provide the ability to transfer move project data from your group move projects into XLS format, so that you can edit your data in Excel. You can then use data transfer to transfer in the edited data to update the move project.

The Data Transfer feature is available at various points in the move process. When requesting, editing, routing moves for approval, or issuing moves, use the Data Transfer button to invoke date transfer. The action affects the data on the active tab. For example, if you invoke Data Transfer from the Employee Moves tab, the data on the employee moves tab is exported; any data on the other tabs is not affected by the action. You can invoke data transfer from any of the move tabs (employee moves, new hires, employees leaving, equipment, assets, or rooms) in a group move. See Data Transfer Overview.

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