Cervello’s Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) solution in Anaplan

The Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) Solution creates a flexible and transparent plan supporting the goals of your organization. Aligning a workforce plan to meet the financial goals in the current year as well as future years involves a more intelligent planning process. Accounting for promotions, attrition, and diversity allow for a healthy and realistic workforce plan. Leveraging staffing ratios and other metrics to align the workforce plan to sales forecasts, results in more accurate headcount planning, insights into workforce costs, and streamlines collaboration between the goals of the finance and HR departments.

Recent economic events have proven the importance of quick and meaningful scenario planning. The SWP provides multiple scenarios for your organization to pivot and compare different staffing ratios, growth rates, and many more drivers, enabling the organization to navigate through any business environment.

What methodologies drive the benefits?

• Data — The model leverages siloed data to create a unified workforce plan that accounts for future financial objectives, employee benefits and salary, and considers various scenarios. Many organizations already have the data required to make informed decisions; however, many fail to leverage their data in a common solution. Meaningful source data from Salesforce, Workday, SAP, etc. integrate into the Strategic Workforce Planning model, which allows for a more intelligent planning process.
• Organization objectives alignment — The model is designed to streamline the communication between finance and HR, making the financial objectives a key component in the HR hiring process. This helps align objectives across the company, since the hiring process is tightly designed around sales goals.
• Diversity targets — The model also enables HR to incorporate diversity targets into the plan, allowing the organization to not only thrive financially, but to promote a diverse and rich work environment.

About Cervello, a Kearney company

Cervello, a Kearney company is a data and analytics consulting firm and part of Kearney, a leading management consulting firm. We help our leading clients win by offering unique expertise in data and analytics, and in the challenges associated with connecting data. We focus on performance management, customer and supplier relationships, and data monetization and products, serving functions from sales to finance. Cervello is an Anaplan Gold Tier partner. Leveraging our extensive planning, modeling and consulting experience we have successfully implemented over 100 planning solutions. In addition, we ensure maximum ROI on your Anaplan investment by utilizing the connected planning approach, enabling client center of excellence, and providing training.