WORKFORCE PLANNING SOFTWARE
When people planning meets business goals.
With Workday Adaptive Planning, you can bring HR, finance, and operations together in one powerful platform to create workforce plans that keep your business in motion.
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WHAT SETS US APART
Workforce planning for every step of the way.
Model your workforce dynamics.
Model hiring, transfers, and retention plans with driver-based assumptions and see the cost impact instantly.
Align your workforce plans with business goals.
Identify how best to attract, hire, and retain top talent, and close skills gaps. Then collaborate to turn your workforce plans into actions.
Keep a pulse on your talent needs.
Monitor costs, view open positions, and analyse your workforce by any number of dimensions. Then quickly course-correct as needed.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Headcount and cost.
Easily link workforce plans to financial models with up-to-date headcount plans and related costs, staying on target and budget.
Workforce capacity planning.
Optimise your people resources to meet current business demand by allocating the right people at the right time.
Talent planning.
Model skills capacity by location, time, cost of workforce and more. Then test different scenarios to find the perfect mix.
Strategic workforce planning.
People are your greatest strategic asset. Build the right team to better meet your strategic goals and business initiatives.
Plan with complete confidence.
With Workday, you can model, forecast, and budget all from one unified data core. Make decisions faster with intelligent, trustworthy insights for your key workforce metrics.
70%
shorter planning cycle times*
50%
improvement in productivity*
*Based on average results from Workday Adaptive Workforce Planning customers.
“The introduction of Workday is helping to drive greater consistency and much smarter ways of working. It is certainly helping us to flex and adapt at short notice to meet constantly changing circumstances and priorities”
Level up your workforce planning.
Only a true cloud solution such as Workday Adaptive Planning delivers the speed and agility to keep up with the pace of change.
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Total scalability
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Flexibility to pivot
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Unmatched ease of use
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Rapid time-to-value
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Easy integration with any HR system
Workforce Planning FAQs.
What is workforce planning?
Workforce planning is how organisations collaborate to plan the deployment, development, retention and hiring of their workforce so they can meet operational and strategic goals. Driven by HR analytics for insights into hiring, retention, team performance, engagement and other key workforce trends, the effectiveness of an organisation’s workforce planning efforts to improve key HR metrics while aligning talent supply to demand is key to success in the marketplace.
Why use workforce planning software?
For most companies, having the right tools for successful workforce planning is still a work in progress. Chances are, you’re stuck with complex and clunky legacy software. Or you’ve settled for an error-prone spreadsheet process that is driven by multiple emails or Slack messages and leaves you hopelessly unable to keep pace with your rapidly changing business. But now there’s a better way.
How does Workday Adaptive Planning support enterprise workforce planning?
Bringing your planning, execution and analysis needs into a single, seamless cycle drives our vision for workforce planning. Workday Adaptive Planning, HR analytics, and HCM enable you to align your workforce to your business. Identify your organisation’s talent needs and talent gaps, and plan scenarios for how best to fill them. Then, publish your approved hiring plans for automated rendering in HCM by your recruiting teams to kick off the hiring process – no more errors, unaccounted-for requisitions, or having to chase down associated budgets.
What tools does Workday Adaptive Planning include for workforce planning?
Leverage our patented Elastic Hypercube Technology to take advantage of powerful multidimensional modelling, collaborative scenario planning, and workflows to help your organisation accelerate workforce plans and decisions for any business environment. Workday Adaptive Planning can address a wide variety of use cases to handle the needs of any workforce size and organisational complexity. Top use cases include headcount and cost planning, workforce capacity planning, strategic planning and talent planning.
What are the key principles of workforce planning?
Powerful modelling and scenario planning. Create a view of your workforce with a multidimensional modelling engine and compare against other scenarios.
Companywide collaboration. Collaborate among key stakeholders with shared views and planning process workflows.
Continuous planning. Gain business agility by accelerating the plan-execute-analyse cycle.
From insights to better, faster workforce plans and decisions, Workday Adaptive Planning delivers.
See how it works.