Workforce Planning Tools: The Right People in the Right Positions
Our workforce planning solutions can help you strategically manage your company’s positions, forecast hiring needs, and budget.
Strategic Workforce Planning Software
Managing your workforce can be a challenging and costly aspect of running your business. Our workforce planning tools streamline this process, providing clarity and insights into your staffing structure, hiring needs, and progression.
Manage Labor Costs
By keeping track of employee headcounts and productivity, you can ensure your organization is staffed optimally.
Address Talent Gaps
Identify gaps in your workforce and plan for future new hires needed to reach your organizational goals.
Align HR Processes with Business Strategy
Streamline your employee onboarding and progression processes to impact company growth positively.
Anticipate and Plan for Change
Use staffing metrics to inform executives of potential workforce issues and address them proactively.
Staffing and Position Management
Establish positions, headcount, and budgeting for your organization. Position Management tools empower HR departments to forecast, budget, and analyze labor for more informed and data-driven workforce planning.
- Auto-assign details such as reporting manager and wage type to employees when selecting their positions during the new hire process to ensure data accuracy
- Access position details reports for better decision-making
- View headcount per position to address any workforce discrepancies
- Ensure transparency throughout your organization and establish your reporting structure with position hierarchy
- Identify staffing vacancies and overages to plan for future hires
Automated Organizational Chart
The Organizational Chart, or Org Chart, automatically updates when position details, reporting structure, or employee transfers change. The Org Chart eliminates the need to use disconnected systems or spreadsheets to maintain your company structure. With a clearly defined Org Chart, your employees will know each person’s role and responsibilities, improving communication.
- Plan and allocate resources across your organization more effectively
- Prevent duplicate work and siloed departments
- Increase visibility and engagement among managers and employees with self-service access to the Org Chart
- Leverage the Org Chart’s structure to develop more effective hiring and progression processes
Workforce Planning Solutions for Every Industry
We provide workforce planning solutions for businesses in a variety of industries. We design our workforce planning software to meet your industry’s unique needs.
Workforce Planning Software Metrics
Use our workforce planning solution’s staffing metrics to forecast and budget for your organization’s needs. With visibility into overstaffed, understaffed, fully staffed, and open positions, you can make more strategic decisions based on staffing needs.
- Identify talent gaps and adjust your hiring plans based on your company's immediate and future needs
- Evaluate your workforce's performance to discover strengths and opportunities for improvement
- Establish benchmarks and compare staffing metrics over time to detect trends and patterns
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Workforce Planning Software FAQs
Here is an overview of the most frequently asked questions users have about workforce planning software systems.
Workforce Planning is a process that involves analyzing, forecasting, and planning workforce supply and demand. The goal of Workforce Planning is to assess gaps and determine talent management strategies to ensure that an organization has the right people with the necessary skills in the right positions and at the right time. This process is essential to ensure an organization can meet its business objectives and stay competitive in the ever-changing market.
Position Management establishes the organizational structure and is the foundation of Workforce Planning that all future functionality relies on to deliver valuable insights.
An Organizational Chart uses the hierarchy set within Position Management to create an organizational structure for the company. The Org Chart provides clearly identified seniority and lines of authority, improving communication.
Workforce planning software helps organizations manage the most complex and costly part of their businesses – the workforce. Workforce planning solutions typically include features like position management, an organizational chart, compensation budgeting (or compensation management), and people analytics (also known as performance analytics or position benchmarking). In future releases of our Workforce Planning software, we will include Compensation Budgeting and People Analytics.
Workforce planning is essential to help businesses make better-informed decisions, support the organization’s overall success, and ensure it meets long-term goals.
Workforce planning helps organizations reduce labor costs, improve productivity, and proactively respond to changing customer needs. Furthermore, it aids in improving employee retention and work-life balance, contributing to a more stable and efficient workforce.
Suggested Workforce Planning Software Resources
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