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Only Workbrain, now Infor, provides a full-featured labor budgeting solution that is completely integrated into its workforce management suite. Workbrain/Infor Workforce Planning effectively generates accurate labor budgets and forecasts to improve the daily execution of scheduling and time and attendance processes.
Workbrain/Infor's Workforce Planning solution:
- Aligns long-term planning with day of operations
- Provides the only fully integrated Workforce Planning application
- Reduces labor planning cycle times, cuts labor costs and increases accuracy
The Benefits
With Workforce Planning, Workbrain/Infor offers the most complete workforce management solution available, allowing organizations to:
- Achieve Labor Cost Reduction and Predictability: Reduce over and under staffing and predict labor costs through continuous optimization of budget constraints
- Reduce Budget Time and Optimize Planning: Reduce planning cycle times by automating complex labor planning processes across the enterprise. Adjust plans based on changing market conditions or strategic adjustments and easily integrate to external planning and operational systems.
- Budget Accurately: Efficiently create accurate labor budgets and forecasts by integrating staffing requirements, productivity standards and attendance data. Enforce budget compliance and align daily workforce decisions with corporate fiscal goals.
Workforce Planning Capabilities
Workforce Planning’s Budget Management modules help organizations optimally deploy their workforces by aligning long-term labor planning efforts with daily operations.
Capabilities include:
- Labor projections: Forecast operational drivers, use labor staffing requirements, productivity standards, and time and attendance data to derive exact staffing requirements. Tight integration with Workbrain/Infor Workforce Scheduling and Time and Attendance ensures labor expenses are always properly allocated.
- Budget Administration: Streamlines solicitation and approval processes through prompts and alerts, spreads and reconciles edits, and enforces budget compliance to user-defined constraints.
- Long-Term Forecasts and Periodic Updates: Provides real-time visibility of department and store sales efficiency trends to help field management adjust operations to match demand fluctuations.
- Multiple Long-Term Labor Projection Approaches: Select a planning approach that will obtain the most accurate projections based on business work flows and available historical data.
- External Integration with Operational Systems: Import or export budget and forecast data to leverage Workforce Planning’s advanced approval and editing processes.
- Weekly Scheduling Integration: Flexible integration approach embeds corporate targets into the scheduling process so that corporate labor allocation priorities are respected.
- Robust Analytics: The integration of Workbrain/Infor's business intelligence solution reveals the hidden factors driving and inhibiting business planning and performance. Allows report configuration, customization and real-time reporting.
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