# Workforce Planning

> Team sizing and allocation based on real demand, across shifts, schedules or projects, respecting labor law, agreements and skills.

Sizing teams means deciding under uncertain demand, labor rules and overtime costs, and in most operations it is done in a spreadsheet, repeating the previous cycle. Orion models workload, skills, shifts and legal constraints as an optimization problem, and returns the allocation that covers the operation at the lowest total cost.

## Overview

- Area: Value Chain and Logistics
- Delivery: customizable solution
- First pilot: about 8 weeks
- Solution 08 of 15
- Topics: Sizing, Shifts and schedules, Project allocation

## When this decision gets expensive

If two or more sound familiar, this solution will most likely pay for itself.

- Schedules or allocations are built in a spreadsheet and carried over from the previous cycle.
- There are too many people where demand has dropped and too few at peaks or on critical projects.
- Overtime and rework become routine, and personnel costs do not add up.
- Labor rules, agreements and skills are checked manually.

## What Orion delivers

- Forecasting of staffing demand by hour, day, unit or project, trained on your history.
- Headcount sizing by role, seniority and skill.
- Shifts, schedules and project allocation that respect labor law, collective agreements and team preferences.
- Fast replanning in response to absences, vacations, peaks and scope changes.

## Technical foundation

- **Demand forecasting:** Time series and machine learning estimating workload by interval, area and skill.
- **Integer programming:** A sizing and allocation formulation with legal, contractual and operational constraints in the same calculation.
- **Scenario analysis:** Trade-off frontiers between headcount cost, overtime and operational service level.

## Indicators tracked

- Overtime as a share of hours worked
- Demand coverage by the allocated team
- Total personnel cost per period
- Compliance with rules and agreements
- Time from demand to published plan

## Talk about this solution

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