Anaplan Workforce Planning Software for Human Resources (HR)

Enabling HR functions to plan, build and optimise workforce, build a talent strategy and underpin compensation plans.

With today’s changing business conditions, it’s more challenging than ever to meet your company’s goals.

Human resources and business leaders have to collaboratively identify, recruit, develop, and retain the top talent for the job. But aligning workforce management with shifting skillset requirements is challenging while juggling spreadsheets, legacy tools, and point solutions.

With Anaplan for Workforce, HR, finance, and operational business plans are seamlessly connected to optimise workforce management, headcount or location planning strategies, ‘what-if’ scenario planning as well as for analytics and visualisation.

  • Design (or refine) your talent strategy to close skills gaps, that are aligned to business goals and budget.

  • Identify talent gaps, model ‘what if’ scenarios and assess financial impacts

  • Identify headcount and talent shortages, and drive appropriate short- and long-term decisions

  • Create compensation plans and fair practice across the organisation.

  • With the recent shift to hybrid working models, deploy talent where you need them most, with visibility of downstream impact

Anaplan for HR & Workforce: delivering the optimal workforce

Headcount planning

  • Plan and model headcount against financial budget and growth projections.
  • Roll up the organisation for bottom-up planning or cascade down the organisation for a top-down scenarios.

  • Continuously measure, align and adjust to stay aligned with business and financial plans.

Strategic workforce planning

  • Plan your long-term critical workforce based on business strategies and initiatives.

  • Identify talent gaps and evaluate various scenarios to close them.

  • Design HR strategies and programs to support your long-term decisions regarding talent supply, skill development, and location strategy.

Anaplan Workforce Planning Software for Human Resources
Anaplan Workforce Planning Software for HR

Workforce capacity planning

  • Determine workforce capacity across teams and roles.

  • Assess impact to productivity and overtime costs by modelling capacity against workload to identify gaps.

  • Simulate headcount changes and absences, and evaluate the potential impact from M&A or organisational realignments and restructuring.

Location planning

  • Optimise your location strategy and plans for employees aligned with company needs and objectives.

  • Simulate scenarios of remote work, in-office work or a hybrid-approach.

  • Estimate and examine costs including travel of remote workers and facilities under different scenarios.

  • Track trends and employee decisions over time by country or region.

‘What-if’ scenario modelling

  • Model and compare various scenarios, and immediately see impact on headcount and cost KPIs and forecasts.

  • Analyse the effect of any number of internal or external changes, drivers, and assumptions.

Anaplan Workforce Planning Software for HR Reporting Summary

Analytics and visualisation

  • Integrates seamlessly with finance, and other systems of record using pre-built connectors or third-party ETL tools.

  • Enrich with data from your Data Warehouse and third-party benchmark providers, or Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.

  • Manage organisation-wide workforce data, workforce plans, and hierarchies in a centralised data hub.

Integration and data hub

  • Leverage dashboards, reporting, and analytics with data visualization to analyse workforce and cost data.

  • Leverage native capabilities for data aggregation to understand the big picture, and drill-to-detail to understand the underlying factors.

If you are still using spreadsheets or legacy planning systems for your workforce requirements, request a demo today

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Why Bedford Consulting?

  • We’re Anaplan experts – partners since 2011 with certified expertise in all eight specialisations, we are Anaplan’s Preferred Delivery Partner for EMEA. We know Anaplan inside out.

  • Significant project experience – we’ve written many RFPs and business cases across all industries and use cases. We will guide you through the process with our unique checklist.

  • Extensive experience in operational excellence – we’ve delivered implementations across all industries in finance, supply chain, sales and operational planning teams within some of the world’s largest companies.
  • Successful delivery – we partner with your team to implement (or expand) Anaplan using a tried and tested agile methodology and ensure that there is skills transfer at every stage.

  • We deliver results – we implement solutions that are based on industry best practice and align to your overall business strategy and objectives and deliver tangible ROI.

  • Expert knowledge transfer – as a fully certified Solution Advisory & Delivery partner, we have deep domain expertise, knowledge and best practices.
  • We focus on your success – we help you reach your growth and operational potential, collaborate, solve challenges, and empower decision-makers to make agile and data-driven decisions.

Wise Bedford Consulting Customer
“We have been able to considerably reduce time spent on manual tasks and it has enabled us to spend more time analysing data.”
Dhruv Chahda, Wise
The Gym Group Bedford Consulting Customer
“Knowing the pain I previously went through to create a revenue forecast, to see that now in Anaplan and to build and run it in Anaplan and be able to answer a question from my CFO within an hour, as opposed to a couple of days work is incredible.”
Matt Cannon, The Gym Group
All3 Media Bedford Consulting Customer
“We recently partnered with Bedford to migrate a number of our dashboards to The UX. Bedford made this process seamless, easily digestible and the end result is something the whole team is very pleased with… We now have more visually appealing dashboards that are easier to navigate, enabling us to engage with senior management more effectively.”
Stacey Sampson, All3Media

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