Strategic Personnel Planning: The Quintiq Strategic Workforce Planner

The Quintiq Workforce Optimization Solution contains a powerful Strategic Workforce Planner. With Quintiq's advanced algorithms, you can simulate strategic scenarios to determine their potential effects on KPIs. Multiple scenarios can be compared to discover the optimal personnel planning strategy for your organization. The Quintiq Strategic Workforce Planner is extremely flexible and allows for a high level of freedom when building scenarios; virtually all factors can be defined.
The Quintiq Strategic Workforce Planner offers the following short-term and long-term planning capabilities:

• Strategic decision support
  
• Identifies mismatches between organizational goals and organizational capabilities
  
• Supports long-term capability development strategies and hiring strategies
  
• Skill matching
  
• Rolling forecasts
  
  

With the Quintiq Strategic Workforce Planner, you can predict where deficiencies will occur given a certain scenario or use the advanced optimization engines to generate optimal personnel planning strategies in accordance with company strategy. Short-term and long-term demand and forecast scenarios can be defined in the Quintiq Strategic Workforce Planner or pre-determined in external systems and then imported.
The Quintiq Strategic Workforce Planner provides exemplary scenarios to highlight the gaps between actual organizational resources and future resource needs. When you input your organizational goals, workforce scenarios and the demands or forecasts, the Quintiq Strategic Workforce Planner will provide you with the data needed to prevent future resource shortages.
The Quintiq Strategic Workforce Planner also has advanced what-if functionality. This enables you understand if should hire additional employees or outsource; what personnel skills will be needed if the business model is changed, and how enhancing the employee skill set will affect the organization.