Workload Planner

Balancing site-level workloads
Workforce planners have a difficult challenge balancing requirements for service and task-based labor within existing workforce budgets, especially without visibility to site-specific labor capacity. You can’t optimize scheduling and utilization if you don’t understand the impact on local operations.

Workload Balancing
Balancing workloads across work areas, departments or sites maximizes labor utilization and productivity.

In the past, corporate operations planners had no ability to calculate the impact of various labor options on local site workforces. Therefore, they had to use a "one size fits all" approach that led to costly inefficiencies like overloading some sites while underutilizing others.

Workload Planner allows power users within a company’s workload planning group to optimize the return on labor for each site by calculating the actual effort required to complete each project. The system provides what-if scenario analysis on project timing, content, priority, and phasing. As a result, organizations can use Workload Planner to phase and prioritize projects over time, while comparing demand for labor to capacity by site, by week.

For retailers, Workload Planner provides sales associates with more time on the sales floor with customers by optimizing process planning across each retail organization’s entire chain. Tying in labor standards with calculated activity requirements produces a more efficient store, and a more efficient business overall.