Strategic Budget and Capacity Planning, Scenariomanagement

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ORion-PI^® Staff Planning & Scheduling not only allows the operational planning of your workforce but also considers long-term planning scenarios. The solution thus responds to the increasing importance of strategic budget and capacity planning issues and varying shift and working time models.

Longterm, strategic budget and capacity planning with ORion-PI^® includes:

Comparison of different shift and budget scenarios
Scenarios for long-term assignment
Calculation of the demand of temporary workers
Computation of optimal working time models
Use of planned marketing and sales figures as demand forecasts
Demand forecasts
Averaged productivity figures
Seasonal fluctuation and periodical distribution
Evaluation for controlling reports and cost developments
Long-term vacation planning
Scenarios considering vacation time and sickness percentages
Development of qualifications

A long-term workforce management is based on future demand forecasts. In predicting future trends as well as expected order developments ORion-PI^® relies on various data sources. For example, future data can be extrapolated from planned sales and marketing figures into the system or as an alternative (or in combination) marketing and sales figures of the past. Thereupon based seasonal specifics, information on upcoming campaigns or well-known percentage breakdown between working areas can also be taken into consideration in the budget and capacity planning process.

ORion-PI^® forecasts the staff availability in the future and matches the results with the predicted personnel demand. In the process the software solution considers qualification profiles and possible bottlenecks. Where required it can even initiate further trainings, help to identify optimal shift models or evaluate how to best balance permanent and temporary workers per period.

Strategic budget and capacity planning with ORion-PI^® allows the simulation of planning scenarios in order to analyze the productivity development, to control the throughput or to simulate working time models. All relevant data can be modified interactively. The graphical and tabular representation of changes in the plan and its effects on the rest of the process chain provide for invaluable transparency. The quick comparison of alternative planning scenarios now is possible.

Furthermore, ORion-PI^® allows the generation of reports for strategic controlling issues. In addition to the analysis of single cost centers you can also create overviews of the development of qualifications. All of these are meant to support strategic decision-making, can be saved and compared with alternative scenarios as well as modified data.