Companies use operational workforce planning to determine, control and monitor the costs incurred by a company’s personnel. These include salaries, social security contributions, bonuses, training measures and other personnel-related expenses.

Workforce planning is usually part of the financial planning of a company. Personnel costs are often the largest item and should therefore be planned with as much accuracy as possible. The planned personnel costs must be coordinated in the planning process with the available budgets, planned key production figures and/or sales.

Workforce planning is extremely important for companies. After all, personnel costs are usually the largest cost factor in companies. The personnel cost plan serves as the basis for all personnel decisions. With the help of good workforce planning, you as a manager have a reliable tool at hand with which you can make decisions on a data-based foundation.

The goal of workforce planning is to ensure that the right people are in the right place at the right time to achieve business objectives. Workforce planning can take place at various levels within a company, from high-level strategic planning to detailed operational planning. In small and medium-sized companies, workforce planning often falls by the wayside because it is seen as a time-consuming and complicated process. However, with the right tools, workforce planning can be a breeze. In this blog post, we’ll show you how Personio and PeoplePLAN make workforce planning, and especially personnel cost planning, easier than ever for small and medium-sized businesses.