The Value of Workday Workforce Planning

With Workday Workforce Planning, you can plan your future workforce today. Collaborate with key stakeholders to create effective talent plans, identify talent gaps, and optimize how to close them. 

Workday Workforce Planning gives your organization the tools needed to build dynamic workforce plans and put those plans into motion. Optimize your workforce structure and quickly adapt to changing requirements. Foster collaboration and transparency among HR, Finance, and business hiring managers. Equip people leaders and administrators with easy-to-use planning tools to align hiring strategies with business goals and initiatives.

Key Benefits

• Optimize labor costs by reducing over/under hiring 
• Drive efficiencies by comparing multiple what-if scenarios in real time 
• Meet operational demand by dynamically allocating worker resources
• Minimize risk by modeling the impact of one-time events, such as restructures, mergers, and acquisitions.
• Ensure future competitiveness by modeling critical skills capacity, demand, and gaps by location, cost, and ramp-up time

See Workday Workforce Planning in Action

Workday Live Workforce Planning Demo (30 minutes)

Workforce Planning Use Cases

The Workday Adaptive Planning Platform

Workforce Planning is part of the Workday Adaptive Planning platform. Our planning solution is built on a scalable, in-memory platform designed to enable an active planning process for any team across the organization. Whether you’re creating a financial plan for the organization or operational plans for a single department, our platform makes continuous planning possible. Individual groups can plan and model their business at the needed level of detail. Then these plans can be federated into an integrated model of the overall business.

This holistic view lays a foundation for an enterprise-wide planning process that is continuous, comprehensive, and collaborative. Other planning modules within this solution include:

• Financial Planning 
• Sales Planning
• Operational Planning

Deployment Options

Workday Professional Services

Our services team provides various deployment options specifically for Workday Learning.

Launch

• Prescriptive approach focused on leading practices with a preconfigured tenant. Workday to own design, configuration, and migration activities. Customer to own testing, co-own project management.

Your Way

• Consultative approach focused on all Learning areas. Workday to own design, configuration, and migration activities. Customer to own testing. Typically reserved for customers who have higher complexity where a template-based Launch approach won’t work.

Workday Partners

You can also work with one of our certified partners for your Workday Workforce Planning deployment needs. Workday Partners use the same methodology and tools as our services team to ensure the path to a successful go live remains the same. 

Find a Partner.

We’re here to help you determine which deployment methodology best suits your needs. For more information, reach out to Customer Success to schedule a discovery call with one of our Services Executives.

Training and Resources

• Next Level: Next Level presentations and publications are designed to bring Learning features and functionality to life and prepare you for implementation. Join us in live webinars, watch recorded presentations, and review our how-to guides (all free of charge) that show Workday in action and give you tips on deploying features.
  • Adaptive Workforce Planning Foundational Overview (temporarily unavailable as we make updates to the videos and content)

Customer Testimonial

With Workforce Planning, Commerce Bank’s 133 department leads perform forecasting and workforce planning that align with the bank’s strategy and management processes. The application draws on workforce data - such as position and payroll details - from the entire Workday suite and other business software. This has resulted in stronger and speedier approvals and reporting.