Workforce Optimisation
Developing & maintaining a productive workforce
Organisations today face huge challenges in increasing productivity while effectively reducing costs. Often the largest cost pressure on a company's expenditure budget is its workforce.
In order to do 'more with less' organisations must embed a strategic culture that optimises the size, structure and skill set of its workforce to maximise productivity and profitability.
The globalised economy also places organisations in direct competition with companies that utilise outsourcing and low cost labour to reduce their cost model.
Please read below for an overview of our services to increase staff utilisation and decrease costs.
Workforce Management
Workforce Management encompasses a wide range of factors designed to increase the productivity of your workforce. Such factors include: organisational structure, department and team size, remuneration, career development, training, job functions, time in motion analysis, rostering, forecasting and scheduling.
The team at Analytics in Motion can assist organisations create a solution that tracks and optimises the productivity of its workforce. We can provide time critical labour intelligence to measure:
- the time it takes to complete particular work processes end to end;
- any bottlenecks or deficiencies in the current process; and
- the cost of a process in terms of time, systems and labour resources.
We can then utilise this information to re-engineer inefficient processes, provide forecasts on expected output and design an optimal staff schedule to incorporate different levels of full-time, part-time or contract workers.
Business Restructuring
Maintaining the right operating structure and model is imperative for an organisation to quickly adapt to changes due to either internal or external factors.
Modern organisations need to be able to change the configuration of their operations dynamically to ensure business continuity and meet the threat of changes in market forces.
The team at Analytics in Motion can assess your current business environment and determine what advantages can be realised by reconfiguring the current structure.
This may include developing a plan to cross skill your workforce, combining or creating new teams and changing the operating hours in which staff work.
We can also deploy our labour-force models which strategically determine the optimal levels of staffing required. These models can also demonstrate the marginal rate of benefit or decline (in terms of cost & output) in adding or reducing to your existing staff levels.
Outsourcing Alternatives & Evaluation
The proliferation of globalised trade has opened the doors for companies to seek innovate ways to increase their revenues while simultaneously decreasing their costs.
One example of this has been the proliferation of outsourcing functions from countries with high wage environments to those that offer comparatively cheaper labour. The spectrum of services on offer to outsource is extensive but is mainly focused around the customer service, manufacturing and IT sectors.
However, outsourcing is not always beneficial for every organisation and carries additional political, economic, environmental and social risks.
At Analytics in Motion we can assist in measuring the real cost of resources in your current environment and
undertake comparisons to show the cost/benefit of outsourcing to various other countries.
We can also provide forecasts on your expected Return on Investment over the short, medium and long term horizons.
Please
contact us today to learn more about the benefits of our Operational Analysis.
