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MAPS Workforce Optimization
Central to the capability of any organization is their workforce. Even after an organization increases automation and decreases costs, they will always be reliant upon the supply of a competent workforce. Only once the demand for appropriate workforce resources has been met are they able to efficiently and effectively meet their commitments. Using Allocate Software solutions, organizations are able to balance their operational demand, with their workforce capabilities.
Workforce Optimization challenges
- Size
- Structure
- Cost
- Location
- Capability
Fulfilling these criteria can be a struggle; especially when ensuring the current workforce consists of balanced, diverse individuals that are competent and suitably qualified. Coupled with attracting, recruiting, training and retaining a workforce, the financial constraints of increasing the supply to match the demand would challenge any organization. Competition to recruit is especially testing, with workforce markets facing skills shortages, declining birth rates and an ageing population.
With workforce demand dictating the quantity and competencies of the people required, and workforce supply stating the number available, all organizations need the ability to optimize the balance between the two.
Allocate Software’s Solution
To meet the challenges of workforce optimization, Allocate Software has developed the industry-leading MAPS software suites. These provide organizations with the tools to manage large, multi-skilled workforces that are often based world-wide and have complex shift patterns.
Customers that use MAPS are able to manage the complete capability of their workforce, allowing them to oversee:
- Workforce Management in the short term – managing changes to supply and demand by rescheduling and replanning.
- Workforce Scheduling in the medium term – matching competencies, skill mixes and knowledge to the demands of the posts.
- Workforce Planning in the long term – recruiting, developing, training and educating to ensure the workforce supply is sustained over a managed career progression, against the financial constraints of the organization.
- Workforce Analysis in the short, medium and long term - analyzing historical and real-time data for the purpose of optimizing the most efficient and effective use of the workforce and planning ahead.
Throughout each stage, MAPS users balance the demands of resource requirements with the supply of people, teams and equipment. Through a single software application, the organization can create an optimized workforce to match their continuously changing operational demands.
