Strategic Workforce Planning

An overview of Strategic Workforce Planning.

Strategic Workforce Planning is a powerful application that assists organizations with understanding their staffing needs, their labor cost, and how to optimize labor over the long term. Use Strategic Workforce Planning to generate long term labor forecasts based on several different factors.

Workload Budgeting — Get an accurate calculation of your long-term workload and team capacity over several weeks, months, or years and make better decisions based on your unique goals and targets.
Labor Analytics — Gain insights and track progress in real-time through fully customizable and interactive dashboards and reporting.
What-If Scenario Planning — Anticipate and plan for the future of your workforce through intelligent “what-if” scenario planning that aligns Finance, HR and Operations in one centralized location.
Capacity Planning — Nurture and grow your people by identifying optimal staffing levels, skills mix, and hiring opportunities that support your long-term people strategy. For more information about capacity planning, go to Capacity Planning.

About user permissions

System administrators can set the permissions for each section of the configuration, usage and dashboard pages of Strategic Workforce Planning depending on user roles. For more information about how to set up Strategic Workforce Planning for your business site, contact a UKG Representative.

Working with the system

The way you use Strategic Workforce Planning is dependent upon your assigned roles.

Client Administrator (Client_Admin) - For information about managing users in Strategic Workforce Planning as a Client Administrator, go to Create and Manage Users.
Modeler role - For information about configuring Strategic Workforce Planning as a Modeler, go to Configuring Strategic Workforce Planning.
Reviewer role - For information about using Strategic Workforce Planning as a Reviewer, go to Using Strategic Workforce Planning.
Operator role - For information about using Strategic Workforce Planning as an Operator with access to the Live Dashboard, go to Use the Live Dashboard.