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Create and Prepare a Round Plan
Create a round plan by choosing the best starting method, defining its scope, building the Operator workflow, validating the mobile experience, and preparing it for approval and scheduling.

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Preface
This guide is for Supervisors and Round Planners who use the mRounds web application. It explains the conventions, related information, and support contacts used throughout the guide.
Overview of mRounds
As a Supervisor or Round Planner, use mRounds to design inspection work, schedule and assign rounds, monitor execution, review findings, and hand over the shift.
Log in to the Web Application
Sign in to the mRounds web application using the method configured by your organization. Your permissions determine which planning, monitoring, approval, and administration options appear.
Find Your Way Around the Web Application
Use the web application modules to plan rounds, schedule work, monitor execution, manage findings, review reports, and prepare shift handovers.
Accept the Shift Handover Report
As the incoming Supervisor, review and accept the previous shift’s handover before taking ownership of open rounds, exceptions, Issues, Actions, notes, and attachments.
Assess and Monitor the Shift
Use the dashboards together to understand compliance, identify exceptions, review workload, and open the rounds, Issues, or Actions that need attention.
Create and Prepare a Round Plan
Create a round plan by choosing the best starting method, defining its scope, building the Operator workflow, validating the mobile experience, and preparing it for approval and scheduling.
- Create a Round Plan
  Create the round plan that defines the inspection purpose, plant, route, assets, and tasks Operators will execute. Save it as Draft until the content is ready for review.
- Add Locations, Assets, Sections, and Tasks
  Build the field experience by selecting locations and assets, organizing pages and sections, and adding the tasks Operators must complete.
- Choose and Configure Response Types
  Choose the field that matches the information an Operator must record, and use the detailed response-type topics only when configuring that field.
- Conditional Logic
  Use conditional logic to show follow-up tasks, hide irrelevant tasks, or trigger configured outcomes based on an Operator’s response.
- Preview and Send a Round Plan for Approval
  Preview the round as an Operator will see it before requesting approval. This helps catch missing tasks, confusing guidance, wrong units, or poor mobile flow.
Review and Approve Round Plans
Review the plan before publication, record the approval decision, and use workflow configuration or audit history only when those administrative tasks are required.
Schedule and Assign Round Plans
Schedule a published round plan to define when rounds are generated, when they are due, and which Operators or groups receive the work.
Investigate Rounds That Need Attention
Investigate overdue, skipped, partly open, or exception-flagged rounds to understand what happened and route the finding to the correct follow-up process.
Choose an Issue, an Action, or an ERP Notification
Choose the follow-up record that matches the finding, then track it through ownership, progress, resolution, or enterprise maintenance processing.
Hand Over Your Shift
End the shift by reviewing the operational record, adding the required context, submitting the report, and making it available to the incoming Supervisor.
Configure Dashboards and Reports
Create reusable dashboards and reports when the standard shift views do not provide the combination of metrics or detail the organization needs.
Find Rounds, Issues, and Actions
Use search when you know identifying details for a record, and apply filters when you need to narrow a larger list of round plans, scheduled rounds, Issues, or Actions.
Troubleshoot Common Problems
Use this guidance when planning, approval, scheduling, monitoring, reporting, or handover behavior does not match what you expect.
Administration and Governance
Use these occasional configuration and governance tasks to control templates, permissions, email delivery, handover setup, and retained content outside the daily shift workflow.

Create and Prepare a Round Plan

Create a round plan by choosing the best starting method, defining its scope, building the Operator workflow, validating the mobile experience, and preparing it for approval and scheduling.

A round plan is the reusable definition from which rounds are generated. Choose the quickest reliable starting point, then follow the same preparation flow before the plan is used by Operators.

Choose a starting method

Table 1. Round Plan Creation Methods
Use...	When...
Create manually	Nothing similar exists yet. See Create a Round Plan.
Copy an existing round plan	A similar plan already exists and needs limited changes. See Create Round Plans from Existing Ones.
Use a Local or Global Template	Approved reusable content already exists for one plant or across plants. See Choose a Local or Global Template and Import Round Plans from Template.
Import or create through Excel	The plan structure is already available in a spreadsheet, or several plans must be created together. See Create a Round Plan and Create round plans in bulk.
Use AI-assisted template creation	A prompt or supported source document can provide a draft template that will be reviewed and corrected before use. See Create a Round Plan Template Using AI.
Create an ad hoc round	Urgent or unplanned work must be generated from an available plan in the Scheduler. See Create an Ad Hoc Round.

Continue through the common preparation flow

Create or select the starting plan and define its purpose, plant, route, and core details.
Add locations or assets, pages, sections, and tasks.
Use response-type guidance only for the fields required by each task.
Add conditional logic when a response should control follow-up behavior.
Preview the mobile experience and send the plan for approval.
After approval and publication, schedule and assign the plan.