Strategic Workforce Planning

Proactively identify workforce needs and the optimal number and skillsets of resources needed for each project with contextual demand planning. This adaptive planning process quickly matches talent to tasks, ensuring the right people are allocated at the right time, maximizing productivity and enhancing overall performance, reducing delays, and aligning workforce planning with strategic business objectives.

Maintain visibility and control over your entire resource pool in one centralized system. This provides critical content and information to easily govern resource allocation across projects, programs, and portfolios, ensuring compliance and efficient use of employees within your workplace. Streamline approvals, prevent resource conflicts, and ensure effective governance across your enterprise.

Interactive capacity planning functionality delivers real-time visibility into your workforce, equipment, and asset allocation. Quickly identify resource bottlenecks, forecast potential impacts, and strategically align capacity with project timelines and milestones using what-if analysis —ensuring optimal alignment to strategic workforce capacity across your enterprise for improved performance and results, supporting executive workforce strategies.

Maintain detailed visibility into your organization’s skills, capabilities and attributes. This provides crucial information to quickly identify skill availability, address potential skills inventory gaps, and strategically plan future resource requirements. Gain insights to balance the mix of internal talent, new hires, and external contractors effectively, considering necessary education and certification. Cora can also integrate with your human resource management (HRM) system.

Proactively manage your talent pipeline by forecasting future employment needs accurately. Link recruitment plans directly to strategic workforce initiatives, portfolios, and project demands. Anticipate talent planning and acquisition needs well in advance, providing ample time for training, upskilling, and strategic hiring.

Easily manage and track resource costs across the organization with a flexible, configurable rate matrix. This process is a crucial part of financial planning and executive budget management. Administrators can create one or multiple matrices to control rate selection at the project level, including the ability to apply fixed or percentage increases for overhead and burden charges.