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Accelerate unified workforce planning

Discover solutions for a strategic and efficient workforce planning process, including:

  • Solving common workforce planning challenges
  • Harmonizing relevant KPIs with the Jedox platform
  • Activating full functionality with the Best Practice Accelerator for HR and Workforce Planning
  • Specialized guidance from partner expertise
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Solve common workforce planning challenges

Workforce planning is often complex and siloed because human resources (HR) teams operate separately from Finance teams. This disconnect can lead to days or weeks of back-and-forth financial comparisons, compromising efficiency and accuracy in this critical cost planning area. Jedox closes the data gap between Finance and HR by integrating all the data that matters within a single source of truth.

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1. Integrate all the data that matters

Create a single source of truth activated by all the data that matters. Add convenience and gain efficiency by unifying input across the organization.

2. Increase collaboration and adaptability

Adapt models and plans to changing internal and external business drivers. Manage KPIs such as headcount, salary, insurance, and benefits. Connect operational and financial planning by reflecting HR costs directly into P&L statements and balance sheets.

3. Simplify insight generation and decision-making

Share real-time dashboards with management. Make confident decisions with Jedox AIssited™-powered insights and forecasts. Demonstrate HR’s impact on productivity, sales, and profitability.

Increase adaptability and efficiency

Workforce planning with Jedox drives adaptability and efficiency by harmonizing the KPIs integral to workforce planning within a single source of truth for shared visibility and alignment with corporate objectives. Teams can jointly create plans to optimize their process and make strategic hiring decisions, cutting planning time from days or weeks to hours.

Efficient planning enables organizations to adapt quickly to changes, such as talent shortages, and adjust their workforce plans accordingly.

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Public broadcaster KERA spends
20% less time
on budget management by using Jedox as a single source of truth for department heads, executive teams, HR, and Finance.

Simplify workforce planning

Jedox simplifies workforce planning for even the most complex organizations by unifying Finance KPIs, such as personnel costs, with HR KPIs, such as full-time equivalent (FTE). The platform integrates all the data that matters to streamline collaboration and drive confident decision-making.

  • Easy integration
    Integrate data from any source, including salary, benefits, headcount data, revenue goals, and budgets, to reduce planning time from days to hours.

  • Access control
    Protect highly sensitive personnel data inherent to Finance and HR processes with role-based access control.

  • Single source of truth
    Harmonize the financial KPIs integral to workforce planning in one platform for shared visibility and alignment.

“We set up an individual HR controlling system in a short time and can now analyze and plan personnel costs in detail. ”

Pernod Ricard, Compensation and Benefits Manager

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Activate integrated workforce planning with the Jedox Best Practice Accelerator

Jedox Best Practice Accelerators, based on expertise developed over thousands of deployments, help customers gain value efficiently in a variety of functional areas. The Jedox Best Practice Accelerator for HR and Workforce Planning helps teams quickly achieve full functionality in HR and workforce planning. It guides customers to choose from a host of KPIs, integrate relevant data from virtually any system, and create dashboards that provide clear insights.

The Jedox Best Practice Accelerator for HR and Workforce Planning activates strategic workforce planning so teams can get started quickly:

  • Plan KPIs such as FTE, headcount, salary, insurance, and benefits
  • Make plan adjustments by individual, team, business unit, cost center, or role
  • Users with appropriate access can submit and request approval for changes
  • Gain insight from the HR dashboard on expenses per cost center, month, and FTE, and workforce development
  • View KPIs such as profit, revenue, margin, and expenses for each department
  • Automatically connect your subplan for HR into your P&L as part of integrated business planning (IBP)
Sommet Education automated
70%
of its reporting tasks with Jedox and can easily track employee data, as labor comprises 50% of the organization’s costs.

Access guidance from partner expertise

Jedox enlists experts from an expansive partner network to design complementary pre-built models based on specialized solution areas. One such visionary is bdg (better decisions group), an international business intelligence consultancy based in Germany with deep experience supporting both Finance and HR.

bdg ONE | People is a holistic, GDPR-compliant solution for planning and analytics in HR. The solution captures the vast experience of bdg’s HR experts and is built on the Jedox platform. A complement to the Jedox HR solution area that focuses efficiency on Finance KPIs, bdg ONE | People offers deep workforce planning and development expertise; even complex personnel movements can be planned, analyzed and reported on along the complete employee lifecycle.

With unmatched data integration capabilities and expert guidance, Jedox empowers organizations to unify workforce planning and achieve the decisiveness, confidence, and performance they need to achieve what they didn’t know was possible.