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Workforce Planning:
Managing headcount, skills, and payroll

With Anaplan and Beyond Plans, workforce planning connects HR, finance, and operations: headcount, skills, hiring, and payroll are managed within a single repository featuring what-if simulations and real-time KPIs.

Why Beyond Plans?

Workforce Planning is not limited to headcount tracking. Beyond Plans aligns HR, finance, and business functions around Anaplan to model recruitment, skills, HR costs, and what-if scenarios within an enterprise-wide steering approach.

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Key Points

With Beyond Plans and Anaplan, Workforce Planning becomes a strategic lever. You can compare multiple HR scenarios, manage payroll costs and skills, and visualize real-time KPIs and charts to safeguard capacity and profitability.

context

Fragmented HR data, limited forecasting, and limited visibility into costs.

Solution

HR simulations, real-time KPIs, and connected costs.

Key benefits

Faster HR decisions, controlled costs, and real-time visibility.

Anticipating workforce needs in a volatile environment

Growth, skills constraints, and wage inflation make Workforce Planning more complex. When managed in Excel, headcount and costs often lack visibility, limiting the ability to quickly compare multiple transformation scenarios.

Our solution: HR, finance, and business functions aligned

Beyond Plans deploys a connected Workforce Planning solution in Anaplan. We model headcount, recruitment, attrition, skills, and HR costs with what-if simulations, live KPIs, and real-time dashboards in a single source of truth.

Notre solution Workforce Planning : RH, finance et métiers alignés

Key benefits for HR and finance teams

With Anaplan and Beyond Plans, compare multiple HR scenarios: hiring freeze, wage inflation, or reorganization. Gain visibility into headcount, secure your decisions, and manage KPIs and capacity in real time.

Des bénéfices clés pour les équipes RH et finance

About Anaplan

Anaplan is the leading cloud platform for Workforce Planning. It connects HR and financial data, enables multiple scenarios to be compared, and provides real-time KPIs and charts to manage headcount and payroll costs.

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Workforce Planning FAQ

Are you looking to streamline your workforce planning? Find answers to key questions: HR scenarios, workforce management, payroll forecasting, real-time KPIs and best practices in Anaplan.

What is workforce planning?

Workforce planning involves forecasting requirements in terms of headcount, skills and capacity. It links HR data, business objectives and financial projections in order to manage recruitment, staff mobility and the total payroll.

Why integrate HR and finance in Anaplan?

Linking HR and finance enables the immediate measurement of the budgetary impact of HR decisions. Headcount, payroll costs and capacity are managed within a shared system featuring KPIs and real-time dashboards.

What scenarios can be simulated in Workforce Planning?

Anaplan enables you to simulate hiring freezes, wage inflation, restructuring, staff mobility or staff turnover. The impacts on capacity, HR costs and profitability are calculated instantly, allowing you to compare different scenarios.

What data should be included in workforce planning?

Reliable workforce planning relies on HRIS, financial and operational data: headcount, salaries, skills, organisation, activity and capacity. Anaplan brings all this information together in a single model.

Workforce Planning demo

Discover how Beyond Plans and Anaplan are transforming your workforce planning. In just 30 minutes, explore HR scenarios, real-time KPIs and payroll forecasts to better align capacity with strategy.

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