A newly created operational planning model provides a clear and user-friendly interface to produce cost-effective plans while maintaining control over every hour of operation. The model allows users to easily enter and adjust volumes, rates, and rate bandings in a simple budget page. It pulls colleagues and their rota patterns from a lookup page and allocates hours to specific tasks on a checksheet, directly affecting capacities displayed on the planning model screens. These screens allow users to move colleagues between tasks and chambers while seeing live capacities matched against budget targets to adjust the operation on the fly.