Why Intelligent Workforce Planning Pays Off

Advantages of Cost-Effective Intelligent Staff Planning and Resource Management

PDC has more than 20 years experience of developing and implementing solutions for staff planning and Resource Management. At the enterprise/organisational level, PDC StaffPlan has many advantages:

  • Reduced costs in relation to additional pay, allowances, overtime and time-off-in-lieu.
  • Considerable reduction in administrative costs due to effective lean procedures.
  • Effective cost control through precise shift and absence planning to meet flexible demands by avoiding under and over staffing as well as securing right qualifications available.

Besides direct labour cost reductions, PDC StaffPlan supports:

  • Uniform planning, interpretation, and consistency of rules and agreements for all employees independent of work place
  • Greater employee satisfaction and loyalty due to consistent and fair work plans taking employee preferences into consideration
  • Reduced employee absence due to greater employee influence
  • Greater customer satisfaction (and higher sales in some businesses) due to satisfied and qualified employees at the right time and place
  • Reduced number of union and labour court cases

Advantages for the manpower planner are:

  • Effective, robust and safe planning of shifts and teams
  • Effective handling of swopping, replacement and relieving
  • Improved overview of staffing, time usage, time-off-in-lieu, etc.
  • Reduction of administrative tasks
  • Easy web and mobile communication with employees about works plans, duty swopping, etc.

Advantages for the individual employee include:

  • Greater influence on own work plan
  • Precise information about work plans
  • Precise real-time information about overtime, holiday, and time-off-in-lieu accounts
  • Precise information for salary calculation
  • Easy web and mobile communication with planner