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Challenges for Workforce Planning

Empower HR to create connected resource plans to successfully align to any capacity or human capital needs.

  • Employee-Level Planning

Plan salaries, benefits and taxes by department, employee and position.
Incorporate bottom-up inputs with top-down drivers such as merit
increase assumptions to create more accurate budgets.

  • Payroll and Benefit Planning

Our workforce planning solution includes pre-built business calculations for benefits such as FICA, FUTA, SUTA, 401k, insurance, salary increases and bonuses.

  • Automate Variance Analysis

Create accurate forecasts using driver-based calculations for salaries, bonuses, benefits, taxes and other labor expenses. Reforecast by leveraging actuals vs. forecast variance.

  • Manage Employee Transfers, Allocations and Headcount Planning

Stay proactive against turnover and create a talent acquisition pipeline by planning new hires, terminations, transfers and allocations.

Our Solution

ForQuest’s ProfitCy® Workforce Planning (WFP) solution ForQuest brings a wealth of knowledge, deep technology expertise, and RAPID™ business process methodology to enhance your human resource department. Our full range of financial and operational web-based solutions, models and applications together with our implementation methodology, consulting, training and support services presents a complete framework to Fortune 1000 and mid-sized companies looking for a smart approach to analyzing and operating your retail business.

ProfitCy® (WFP) powered by IBM Planning Analytics to create an enterprise-wide workforce planning solution with these features:

Empower HR to create connected resource plans to successfully align to any capacity or human capital needs.

  • Employee-Level Planning

Plan salaries, benefits and taxes by department, employee and position. Incorporate bottom-up inputs with top-down drivers such as merit increase assumptions to create more accurate budgets.

  • Payroll and Benefit Planning

Our workforce planning solution includes pre-built business calculations for benefits such as FICA, FUTA, SUTA, 401k, insurance, salary increases and bonuses.

  • Automate Variance Analysis

Create accurate forecasts using driver-based calculations for salaries, bonuses, benefits, taxes and other labor expenses. Reforecast by leveraging actuals vs. forecast variance.

  • Manage Employee Transfers, Allocations and Headcount Planning

Stay proactive against turnover and create a talent acquisition pipeline by planning new hires, terminations, transfers and allocations.

IBM Planning Analytics ProfitCy Retail Financial Planning
IBM Planning Analytics ProfitCy Retail Financial Planning

Workforce Planning Tools and Capabilities To Help You Grow

ProfitCy Workforce Planning leverages IBM Planning Analytics powered by TM1 with an Excel and web-based interface combined advanced modeling capabilities, data integrations and dashboards to help with your compensation and headcount planning processes.
 
Data Integration from HRIS
Integrate personnel data from your HRIS into your templates and processes. Enable accurate FTE tracking and labor cost projections with our workforce planning models.
 
Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
Use dashboards to view labor costs across the organization, drill down to underlying department and employee information.

Connected Plans and Protect Your Data
IBM Applications and Plans allow you to distribute templates to all your departments and control the submission and review process. Data security limits access to sensitive payroll data.

Plan for Any Scenario With Dynamic Modeling Capabilities
Use dynamic modeling to plan for changes to payroll, tax and fringe benefit rates. Understand the of reorganizations and see how changes in driver rates or salaries will affect your bottom line.

Headcount

A financial plan serves as a reference point and the source for more detailed plans. This plan provides all the necessary functionality to build a long term budget and forecast of sales, GM, turns and other important KPI's. Utilizing driver based models, users are able to modify, review and approve plans across multiple levels of a management hierarchy to setup the financial goals for the next year and or future seasons.

Compensation

Pre-built business calculations for benefits and taxes such as FICA, FUTA, SUTA, 401k, insurance, salary increases and bonuses.

Benefits & Taxes

ForQuest's retail assortment model provides an integrated solution to one of the most challenging plans. Our solution determines how many units of each style, size and color to purchase, and which stores they should go to and in what quantities. ForQuest’s Assortment Planning module helps you create assortment plans, optimize sales, increase gross margin, reduce inventory, organize seasonal transition and integrate assortment with financial planning to improve customer satisfaction.

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