General definition: Location Staffing and Optimization involves the strategic planning and allocation of workforce capacity and personnel across various geographic and virtual locations to ensure optimal staffing levels, incorporating key aspects such as demand forecasting, workforce distribution, resource sharing, and efficiency maximization. Organizations can deploy this use case to align their workforce needs with business goals, considering factors like regional demand, employee skills and availability, and labor costs.
Value it Delivers:
- Reduces organizational under- or overstaffing issues
- Ensures efficient resource utilization
- Improves customer satisfaction through better service delivery
- Minimizes labor-related costs
How Anaplan delivers that value: Anaplan offers robust analytics for demand forecasting, a user-friendly interface for planning and simulation, and optimization algorithms to recommend staffing adjustments. It supports scenario modeling, integration with human resources and payroll systems, real-time data visualization, easy tracking of staffing metrics, and alerts for critical staffing gaps and issues.
Typical inputs for this use case:
- Historical sales or service demand data
- Workforce availability and skills
- Labor cost data per location
- Automation and productivity measures
- Regional business trends and forecasts
- Operational hours and workload requirements
What this use case feeds into:
- Anaplan use cases:
  1. Workforce (HR): Operational Workforce Planning
  2. Workforce (HR): General Staffing
  3. Supply Chain: Demand Forecasting
  4. Sales & Marketing: Promotion Management and Planning
  5. Sales & Marketing: Sales Capacity Planning
  6. Finance: Real Estate Planning
- Other business benefits:
  - Efficient performance management through better tracking
  - Cost management by reducing unnecessary labor costs
  - Improved talent management by informing recruitment strategies
  - Improved customer experience through proper staffing levels
Examples of industry-specific terms that align to this standard use case are as follows. Business judgment should always be applied to account for customer maturity, complexity, and unique needs.
- Retail Branch Planning (Banking)
- Branch Resource Management (Financial Services)

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