LP-AnnualPlanner : Annual planning of human resources
The organisation of working hours on a yearly basis requires a long/medium term view of:
- sizing and allocation of staff by contract (full time, part time, etc.)
- issues related to annualisation (averaging of hours with break time and holidays on a yearly basis), and the possibility of time off in lieu of overtime
- trade-offs between additional staffing and overtime
- vacation planning
- multiskilling;
- temporary resources (temporary work, fixed-term contracts, etc.)
LP-AnnualPlanner optimises annual workload coverage over seasonal periods of a month or a week.
The small amount of input information required makes this tool simple to use. With LP-AnnualPlanner you can quickly study a large number of hypotheses concerning some of the company's most important issues.
Input data
- workload, number of man hours required per each period, in both standard hours and overtime (1 or 2 provisional figures per period)
- constraints concerning vacation planning
- minimum and maximum amount of leave to be taken per person and per period
- contracts (statutory week length, number of weeks holiday per year, maximum number of overtime hours allowed per week, maximum amount of hours per week that staff are allowed to take off in lieu of overtime, etc.)
Results
Results consist of
- the total payroll cost
- an optimal staff size along with
- an annual workload coverage and
- the corresponding productivity rate (the ratio between hours to cover and the number of planned hours actually worked).
