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data access. This made it difficult to trust and rely on their data, perform accuratescenario planning, and make timely adjustments. The interviewees’ organizationsalso faced challenges in consolidating plans from multiple units, which requiredsignificant manual effort and resources.Workday Adaptive Planning is an enterprise planning software-as-a-service(SaaS) solution for financial, workforce, sales, and operational planning. It allowsintegration with a wide variety of data sources and supports a more holistic viewof the business. After adopting Workday Adaptive Planning, the intervieweesnoted their organizations experienced improvements. They standardized andintegrated planning processes, providing a single source of truth and access toreal-time data. They were able to increase data accuracy and trust, enablingbetter decision-making and strategic workforce planning. The various planningprocesses became more efficient and streamlined, reducing the time andresources required. Additionally, the enhanced flexibility and scenarioplanningcapabilities allowed the interviewees’ organizations to respond more effectively tochanging business conditions, ultimately improving their overall operationalefficiency and effectiveness.Return on investment249%Netpresent value$2.30MINVESTMENT DRIVERS FORWORKFORCE PLANNINGIn their prior state, the interviewees’ organizations relied on manual,spreadsheet-based, and time-consuming processes for workforce and headcountplanning. This resulted in theinterviewees’ organizations struggling with severalchallenges, including:•Lack of standardized planning workflows.Interviewees shared thatworkforce and cost planning was done locally with different processes andnonstandard definitions, leading to administrative and data quality issues. Planning was usually done in spreadsheets, which was error-prone due tomanual data entry and lacked the dimensional depth necessary to maintaindetailed and accurate workforce plans. Additionally, consolidating plansfrom different regions was time-consuming and required significant manualeffort, further exacerbating the potential for errors.•Static and inconsistent data.Data existed in spreadsheets and the abilityto run different scenarios and adjust assumptions during planning andforecasting processes was limited, which hindered the interviewees’organizations’ abilities to adapt to change. The director of corporateplanning in engineering services at an engineering services firm explained:“The data is consolidated, and it’s dropped into a location [for both ourplans and forecasts]. So it’s static data that you can’t do anything with. Noscenario planning, no sensitivities, all of that in our previous world wasimpossible.”•Inefficient and time-consuming processes.Planning and forecastingefforts took significant time to complete and, despite teams’ diligence,errors still slipped through. In the context of overall planning andforecasting—but also applicable for workforce management—the seniordirector of finance at an automation software organization shared: “Wewere doing a lot of data manipulation as far as trying to pull down andrecord actuals. In [spreadsheets], it can be pretty hard to version controland actuallytrust that everything is coming out correctly. We were lookingto spend less time doing data manipulation … [and] we saw our[spreadsheet] processes could be fairly error prone.”FP&A team productivity improvement by Year 320% “We couldn’t change much about the numbers,we couldn’t change much about our projections,we couldn’t change much about our workforcestrategy. So, we were entering this [multiweekheadcount planning] exercise with a set ofassumptions, but if those assumptions wereproven otherwise during that period, we couldn’treally adjust to the changed assumption.”HRIS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, HEALTH TECHNOLOGYWORKDAY ADAPTIVE PLANNINGFEATURESThe interviewees’ organizations choseWorkday Adaptive Planningbecause ofimproved efficiency, accuracy, and flexibility of workforce planning, enablingbetter decision-making and strategic planning.Some features of WorkdayAdaptive Planning include:•Standardized and integrated planning workflows.By implementingastandardized process for workforce and cost planning, the interviewees’organizations were able to plan consistently and accurately across theorganization. Interviewees noted that the integrated planning processeswithin Workday Adaptive Planning reduced errors and improved accuracy.The HRIS solutions architect for ahealth technologyprovidershared,“Notonly were managers able to self-service in the tool without the involvementof HR andfinance, but they could also see how they compare to the rest ofthe organization.” “During the planning phase itself, businessmanagers were spending approximately 50%less time compared to the old process. Thiswas largely because they were working withdata that they recognized. They were gettingreal-time data from Workday [Human CapitalManagement] for their workforce that was