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Feature: workforce planning

Collaboratively plan around your most important resource: Your people

Your people are your greatest asset, but managing a complex workforce can feel overwhelming. Whether employees are split between locations, departments, or varying schedules, Centage makes it easy. Collaborate seamlessly to build accurate, detailed personnel budgets, turning a once-complicated process into a simple, pain-free experience for your entire team.

Leave Excel Behind: Elevate Your Workforce Planning with Centage

Say goodbye to isolated, error-prone spreadsheets and hello to a unified approach with Centage. Our platform fosters team collaboration, enabling accurate and strategic workforce plans that align every decision and ensure every voice is heard.

Streamlined workforce budgeting

Your workforce is the heart of your company, and Centage empowers you to plan with clarity. Collaboratively build a detailed workforce budget, where every department and employee’s contribution to the bottom line is clear. With built-in logic to track overtime, premium hours, and shift differentials, your team can align on a plan that reflects real-world dynamics. Together, you’ll ensure the budget is more than just numbers—it’s a strategy for success.

Real-time salary forecasts

Imagine confidently forecasting salary increases without worrying about errors or manual calculations. Centage makes that vision a reality. Empower your HR and finance teams to collaborate on personnel planning with precision, from geo-specific merit increases to health insurance projections. With collaboration at the core, teams can simulate and review the impact of salary adjustments in real time, fostering informed decisions that drive success.

Collaborative security

Workforce data is sensitive, but that doesn’t mean it needs to be siloed. Centage’s robust security framework allows you to securely collaborate without compromising confidentiality. Customize access at every level—department, role, or individual—while sharing critical insights with the teams who need them. Now, every stakeholder can contribute to the workforce plan with confidence that sensitive data is protected.

Automated headcount calculations

Your time is precious—don’t waste it on manual calculations. Centage automates headcount planning, taking care of payroll taxes, salary adjustments, bonuses, and benefits with ease. Teams from HR, finance, and operations can collaborate seamlessly, with automated insights removing the risk of error. Save time, reduce stress, and focus on building a workforce strategy that reflects your company’s unique goals.

Integrated workforce and financial budgets

Break down the silos between workforce planning and financial budgeting. Centage integrates your workforce data into your overall financial plan, delivering a complete picture of your company’s performance. With collaboration at its core, every department can contribute to a unified budget that’s more consistent, accurate, and aligned with company goals. Together, you’ll eliminate fragmented spreadsheets and unlock smarter, more cohesive planning.

Data-driven insights

Your workforce is more than just numbers—it's a vital part of your company’s future. Centage allows you to pull non-financial data from business systems like your HRIS, giving you and your team a full spectrum of insights. Collaborate across departments to evaluate everything from employee engagement to long-term staffing needs. With the power of Centage, you'll turn raw data into actionable strategies that propel your company forward.

"There are so many different variables to account for when it comes to our personnel planning, especially with health insurance… Depending on the employee, whether they are married, single, married with children and so on — all those tables are built in Centage so I can accurately select which option the employee has and it calculates the associated cost. It’s great because it makes our budgeting much easier and more accurate."

Jenny Barker

Senior Budget Manager, Housing Authority of Snohomish County

This government housing authority leverages Centage's workforce planning capabilities to optimize its budgeting process. Centage automates personnel-related projections, offering transaction-level detail and ensuring precise adjustments to revenues, expenses, and the bottom line. Granular personnel planning and drill-down capabilities contribute to more accurate and efficient budgeting, providing this housing authority with detailed insights for strategic workforce planning.

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“Our operators and Finance alike are so excited to have the ability to see very quickly what was budgeted and then to have that detail feed into our financial reports – it’s extremely helpful – especially when it comes to our personnel planning.”

Mareva Page

CFO, Equitas Health

This nonprofit community healthcare system with over 500 employees across 21 offices uses Centage to manage complex workforce planning challenges. Centage's intuitive interface and seamless integration with their accounting software, Abila, streamlines personnel-related expenses and projections. Spread methods let the finance team apply individual spreads depending on the specific employee and budget down to the employee level with precise detail.

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“When I first started, the Excel worksheets that my predecessors built were really robust, however, the complexities of budgeting and planning for our staffing were not something I wanted to tackle in Excel.”

Renee Sherman

CFO, The Wildlife Gallery

This nonprofit streamlined its complex personnel budgeting and forecasting processes by integrating Centage with Microsoft Dynamics GP. Seamless integration significantly reduced the time spent on data reconciliation, enabling Finance to make budget revisions in Centage in just 20 minutes, compared to 5 or 6 hours in Excel. Detailed personnel forecasting not only enhances scenario planning and hiring decisions, but also ensures confidence in reporting accurate numbers to leadership.

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“There are so many different variables to account for when it comes to our personnel planning, especially with health insurance… Depending on the employee, whether they are married, single, married with children and so on — all those tables are built in Centage so I can accurately select which option the employee has and it calculates the associated cost. It’s great because it makes our budgeting much easier and more accurate.”

Jenny Barker

Senior Budget Manager, Housing Authority of Snohomish County

This government housing authority leverages Centage's workforce planning capabilities to optimize its budgeting process. Centage automates personnel-related projections, offering transaction-level detail and ensuring precise adjustments to revenues, expenses, and the bottom line. Granular personnel planning and drill-down capabilities contribute to more accurate and efficient budgeting, providing this housing authority with detailed insights for strategic workforce planning.

Read more in the case study