Capacity Planning With Financial Efficiency

Assemble the right mix of people, skills, and coverage to maintain business momentum.

Capacity Planning With Financial Efficiency

Capacity Planning for Complete Coverage

Capacity planning takes more than filling seats and covering shifts. HR has to think ahead, consider skills and training, and work with the business to meet operational expectations. Reactive capacity fixes and short-term remedies just push demand challenges down the road, and a lack of real-time data and comprehensive analysis saps confidence and wastes resources.

Can’t recruit and hire the skills needed to fill capacity gaps?
Frequently paying idle workers due to surplus capacity?
Pushing workers too hard and seeing burnout increase?

Planful helps you work with the business to accurately identify capacity needs, build and nurture a workforce that fits skills requirements and operational demands, and keep workforce capacity and shift coverage tightly aligned as that demand changes. Work from the same single-source-of-truth data as finance and accounting teams to ensure confidence that workforce plans can meet business goals without exceeding financial targets.

How Planful Helps You

Combine financial and HRIS data to build forward-thinking strategies, align capacity with demand, and prevent disruptions from derailing momentum. Financially justify recruiting, training, and other HR investments to stay ahead of demand shifts and ensure sales rep coverage to hit quotas.

Spot capacity spikes before they happen to alleviate burnout and turnover. Provide flexible work options, enable elastic operations, and work with the Office of the CFO to model capacity scenarios.

Use a single platform for end-to-end business and financial planning that integrates data, enables collaboration, and keeps everyone in sync. Get granular with capacity plans, ensure shift coverage, and consider the cost of bonuses and incentives.

“[We also have] 2,000-plus employees loaded into Planful. Planful brought us a sense of confidence in that our businesses were planning at the employee level and those numbers were reflected in their plans.”

Robby LeBourveau

Director of Finance

Cover Capacity With Confidence

Get deeper visibility into operational plans to align business needs with workforce constraints. Build onboarding time into workforce plans, give the business accurate ramp up/down times, and ensure workforce investments, overtime, and incentives support revenue and profitability goals.

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Keep Costs In Line

Integrate workforce and financial data in a single system so decision-makers are all working from the same source of truth. Use operational scenarios to create capacity plans with accurate costs. Keep finance and accounting teams in the loop as demand shifts and workforce investments change.

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Stay Ahead of Business Needs

Connect workforce plans with operational needs so that capacity never impedes momentum or adds unnecessary costs. Build better relationships with the business to understand capacity drivers and lead/lag times, and ensure capacity, shift, and project plans align with operational needs.

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