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ANAPLAN LAUNCHES STRATEGIC WORKFORCE PLANNING APPS FOR HR

Announcement posted by FleishmanHillard 30 Oct 2015

Planning platform helps HR Leaders optimise workforce resource decisions

SYDNEY, October 30, 2015 Anaplan, the enterprise planning cloud company, has launched a portfolio of workforce planning apps that give HR decision-makers valuable insights to plan for and optimise the talent needed to meet business objectives. Anaplan’s platform helps Chief HR Officers (CHROs) visualise and augment enterprise-wide data to create dynamic workforce plans for decisions around every company’s most important investment: people.

Anaplan’s workforce planning apps deliver a quantified workforce view to HR leaders, giving them immediate intelligence to track, plan, and shape how their companies recruit, onboard, develop, pay, and retain employees. The apps enable HR decision-makers to eliminate their dependence on disconnected and non-collaborative spreadsheets and maintain live connections to corporate and financial plans.

The suite of strategic workforce planning apps in the Anaplan App Hub available today include:

      Workforce Planning: Plan and unify workforce requirements for headcount, skills, retention, and recruiting. Create a highly-scalable plan with unlimited “what-if” scenarios.  Collaborate across HR and business units to align high-level plans with bottom-up operational plans.

      Headcount and Payroll Planning: Balance budgets and prioritise headcount needs across the company to meet business goals.  Simulate and optimise headcount and total payroll costs, such as salaries, benefits, and taxes. Build potential scenarios for comparing headcount against capacity forecasts.

      Onboarding Planning: Define onboarding goals and tasks for every type of new hire to ramp new employees in the most efficient manner depending on unique business requirements. Model and visualise how new hires progress against set metrics and milestones in a consolidated dashboard. Forecast cost and ramp time by employee role, department, or region.

      Workforce Optimisation: Shape staffing levels to manage spikes in customer demand. Use forecasting tools to optimise labor levels and minimise labor-related costs.

More than 30 large and fast-growing companies, including ServiceSource, Lacoste Operations, and Pandora, are already using Anaplan’s platform to optimise human resource decision-making. At ServiceSource, VP of Finance Mike Lemberg uses Anaplan to turbo-charge workforce decisions in its top-down meets bottom-up planning and forecasting process for 200+ customer engagements across nine offices and three regions. “With Anaplan, we have found new and exciting ways to plan our business. Anaplan combines the governance we were looking for in our planning process with the flexibility to do any kind of modeling for our workforce planning needs.”

Additionally, the modeling power of the Anaplan platform is leveraged to build optimisation capabilities for large call center workforces by leading companies that use Erlang and agent calculations to estimate workforce demand. 

Fred Laluyaux, Anaplan CEO says, “Anaplan empowers HR planners to continuously optimise the dynamics that affect their human capital. This creates agility, which ultimately lowers talent acquisition costs and ensures the right talent is found when and where it’s needed most in the business.  In 2015, no one deserves to be running such a critical process with a mountain of spreadsheets dispersed all over the business.” 

“Only 12 percent of organisations are able to explore workforce planning scenarios and examine implications, leaving few that have the flexibility required to act quickly in order to be successful,” said Mark Smith, CEO & Chief Research Officer, Ventana Research. “Anaplan has introduced workforce planning apps that bring a centralised cloud computing approach to help HR professionals save time and be smarter in their planning efforts.”

About Anaplan:

Anaplan is the enterprise planning cloud company. Anaplan brings together an unrivaled planning and modeling engine, collaboration in the cloud, and a simple interface for business users. Anaplan customers can choose from over 100 pre-built planning apps from the Anaplan App Hub, or easily build their own apps. Anaplan is a privately held company, headquartered in San Francisco, CA with global offices on four continents. To learn more, visit www.anaplan.com Follow us on twitter: @anaplan

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