HR Analytics and Workforce Planning

Build a future-ready workforce by turning talent, skills, and business data into insights and action.
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Strengthen collaboration between HR and the rest of the business

Our integrated analytics and workforce planning software brings together HR, financial, operational, and strategic plans – helping ensure you have the right talent with the right skills to quickly adapt for what’s next.    

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Analytics for smarter and faster decision-making

Answer questions about your workforce quickly and accurately, uncover hidden trends, and influence business decisions with real-time, data-driven insights.

Integrated workforce planning to stay a step ahead

Forecast future workforce needs, improve collaboration, and optimize workforce plans in alignment with financial and operational priorities.

Skills intelligence to fuel ongoing success

Increase your organizational agility by using the AI-powered skills framework within SAP SuccessFactors solutions across the business.

Aligning workforce planning with demand

See how your HR team can model future workforce needs based on business demands.

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HR Analytics

  • Standard HR metrics catalog
    Use more than 2,000 predefined metrics for HR, talent, and other sources to create a common, actionable understanding of data.

  • Interactive HR analysis and dashboards
    Uncover workforce trends and identify issues across topics, such as diversity, engagement, and turnover.

  • Integrated HR data foundation
    Connect core HR and talent management data from SAP SuccessFactors solutions with financials and third-party data.

  • Reliable view of the workforce
    See how your investments in people impact results across the business with real-time access to data and insights. 

  • Robust security
    Give access to teams across the business while ensuring sensitive HR data is protected with access and security entitlements. 

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Workforce planning

  • Single source of HR data
    Power workforce planning with comprehensive, real-time people data for all worker types across all departments and locations.

  • Enhance decision-making with trusted AI
    Perform analytics and planning tasks using the Joule copilot and generative AI for efficient data analysis, risk assessment, scenario modeling, and more.

  • Discover insights using natural language
    Empower business users to get instant and accurate answers about their data by asking questions using natural language.

  • Predictive planning
    Anticipate workforce and business needs and stay agile with predictive forecasting and machine learning tools.

  • What-if scenario planning
    Simulate scenarios and visualize the impact of decisions to create an optimal workforce mix that aligns with financial goals.

 

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See how customers are succeeding with SAP

Gaining total workforce visibility

Find out how Standard Chartered enabled better planning opportunities and data-driven decision-making.

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Boosting workforce planning capabilities

Find out how Raiffeisen Bank International reduced the amount of time needed for workforce planning and forecasting processes using SAP solutions.

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Aligning people and strategy for better business outcomes

Learn how the software and business consultancy enables robust workforce planning

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Featured resources

Unlocking workforce potential

Explore workforce planning solutions and best practices that can help guide your HR transformation.

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Improving people sustainability

Discover how HR leaders can use AI-driven analytics and strategic workforce planning to build a future-ready workforce and close skill gaps.

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Planning headcounts and costs

Check out how you can use the Operational Workforce Planning content for detailed planning in SAP Analytics Cloud.

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Connecting HR and Finance

Find out how you can plan more accurately by combining HR and Finance data and streamline processes.

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Frequently asked questions

The SAP Analytics Cloud solution and SAP SuccessFactors solutions are bidirectionally integrated, so you can use the latest HR data to build workforce plans. Resulting effects on costs are calculated automatically and can be adjusted to assess overall impact. When the planning exercise is completed, you can transfer the results to a financial planning model within SAP Analytics Cloud, creating a closed-loop planning process between the HR and finance functions.

The SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics solution empowers your HR professionals, analysts, and business partners to answer questions quickly and accurately about your workforce. Data-driven insights can help you influence business decisions with an evidence-based HR approach. The solution offers an extensive catalog of predefined HR and talent metrics, data trend tracking, and actionable analytics. It can also integrate data from multiple workforce management systems. With these evidence-based tools, you can answer workforce-related questions quickly, analyze workforce trends, and make decisions with confidence.

To meet customer demand for responsive, high-quality service, you must schedule the right people with the right skills to work at the right time. The SAP Workforce Forecasting and Scheduling application by WorkForce Software provides intelligent forecasting, scheduling, and optimization capabilities that can help you engage employees, empower managers, and improve compliance with local labor laws. For industries with variable demand, such as retail, hospitality, and leisure, the application helps create a highly accurate, location-specific business forecast and converts it into exact workforce requirements for meeting your organizational needs.

HR analytics tools from SAP are delivered through SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics. The solution provides data-driven insights into all your HR processes and offers an extensive catalog of predefined HR and talent metrics, data trend tracking, and actionable analytics. It can also integrate data from multiple workforce management systems, such as core HR and talent management applications. With these evidence-based tools, you can answer workforce-related questions quickly, analyze and spot workforce gaps and trends, and make decisions with confidence.

HR shift planning capabilities in SAP solutions are provided through the SAP Time and Attendance Management application by WorkForce Software. The cloud-based application combines historical data, such as customer traffic, card scans, and payment data, with future projections, allowing managers to create data-based shift schedules that meet business and employee needs. It also includes a mobile app that lets employees view their schedule and quickly accept offered shifts. With efficient HR shift planning, you can lower overtime expenses, decrease labor issues, and reduce dramatically the time spent on manual shift planning.

Workforce planning is the process of ensuring an organization has the right people in the right place at the right time. It involves aligning business plans and goals with the skilled workforce needed to achieve those goals.

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