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Workforce Planning provides organizations of any size or industry a robust platform to more effectively plan, schedule, budget, track, and allocate resources. From launching new divisions to specialized projects or initiatives, Workforce Planning provides the ability to match the resources required with those available within the organization or to initiate hiring for resources that are needed. Workforce Planning is fully integrated with Softscape’s advanced HCM platform, providing the industry’s most comprehensive and complete system for strategic resource management.
Softscape’s Workforce Planning suite comes bundled with the following modules:
- Increased forecasting accuracy
- Improved budget management
- Improved efficiency & effectiveness
- Fully integrated into HCM platform
- Increased data accuracy
Position Management provides the ability to define job templates and position profiles across the organization. Both job templates and position profiles are comprised of the required skills, experience, competencies, education, responsibilities and other details. These serve as the foundation of Hiring Management, Succession Planning, and Talent Resource Planning to match employee profiles with position profiles and find the best talent for a given position. Position Management also features integrated routing and approval to facilitate the control of job titles and their meaning across the organization.
- Links requisition creation for full time and contingent labor
- Track workers skills, competencies, experience, education, certifications, etc.
- Project roles tied to position profiles
- Competency and skill gap analysis
- Full integration of all components of HCM suite
- Configuration tools for managing data
- Data manipulation tools and procedures
Talent Resource Planning provides the ability to easily create detailed resource plans, assign tasks, allocate resources, and control costs for both external and internally driven engagements. Projects can include specific initiatives as well as generalized categories of worker activity. Resources can be drawn into the project by scanning the workforce for appropriate skills, education, and experience. Document Management provides for a centralized knowledge repository of all project related information with comprehensive version control and security.
Robust reporting shows resource usage as well as understaffed projects and initiatives. Improved project visibility prevents budget overruns or scope creep, while facilitating real-time communications and decision-making between project members. Reports aggregating resource requirements across multiple projects can help in determining whether additional resources should be full time employees or contract/temporary workers.
- Ability to manage separate costs for resource, role, worker, client or contract
- Project expense sheet entry and approval
- Ability to allocate separate budgets for labor and expenses
- Project owner serves as primary point of contact for time and cost validation
- Resource modeling and project simulation performed prior to commitment
- Separate project costs and project billing
- Track scheduled, revised, and actual dates for project tasks and activities
- At-a-glance view of project budget balance
- Quick reports of projects at risk
- Milestone budgeting capability
- Multi-level timesheet approval workflows
- Project ownership assignment
- Import/Export MS Project plans
- Limit ability to record time and expenses on projects to assigned resources
- Rich-client XML architecture provides real-time validation of data entry
- Resource allocation graphs quickly identify overages and shortages
- Distinguish billable and non-billable time
- Gannt charting
- Enterprise calendars
- Resource planning links requisition creation for full time and contingent labor
- Track workers skills, competencies, experience, education, certifications, etc.
- Project roles tied to position profiles
- Competency and skill gap analysis
- Content management to manage project documentation
- Tie projects and initiatives to corporate goals
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