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Workforce Management (WFM) encompasses the strategic and operational planning, steering and optimization of staff deployment. Modern WFM software like plano unites staffing level analysis, shift scheduling, time recording, time management and employee self-services on a single platform to ensure the right employees are in the right place at the right time.
Classic staff planning focuses primarily on assigning employees to specific shifts. Workforce Management goes significantly further: it covers the entire process lifecycle. This includes upstream AI demand forecasts, automated adherence to collective agreements and labor laws, integrated time management with premium calculations and self-service features for employees.
plano has a modular architecture and is extremely scalable. Our software is used just as successfully by mid-sized companies with around 300 employees as it is by large enterprise corporations with over 100.000 employees across numerous locations.
The AI in plano analyzes historical data to accurately forecast future staffing needs. During automated schedule optimization, the AI balances requirements, qualifications, legal specifications and employee preferences in seconds, generating fair, conflict-free shift schedules at the touch of a button.
Yes. plano time recording fully complies with the requirements of the ECJ ruling. Working hours can be recorded digitally, via mobile app, in the browser or via time recording terminals in an objective and tamper-proof manner.
Yes. plano offers interfaces to all standard payroll and HR systems, including SAP HR, DATEV, LOGA, PAISY, BMD and many more. Payroll-relevant data such as premiums, overtime and absences are transferred automatically and without errors.

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With plano, you determine your exact personnel demand based on reliable metrics rather than mere gut feeling.
Our AI-driven forecasting models process a wide range of factors (such as customer footfall, weather data, sales targets or historical data) and translate them into concrete staffing requirements on a minute, hourly or daily basis. This reliably prevents costly idle time during quiet periods as well as overload during unexpected peak workloads. As a result, you create a dependable foundation for staff planning, protect your budget and consistently ensure high service quality.

With the plano Roster, you schedule your employees clearly within a modern web interface. The software matches the determined requirements with availabilities, qualifications and working time accounts. Legal regulations, collective bargaining agreements and operational rest periods are continuously checked in the background during schedule creation. If potential violations arise, the workforce management tool warns you immediately. This eliminates costly planning errors right from the start and provides noticeable relief in daily administration.

Satisfied employees are any company’s most valuable asset. With myplano, you actively involve your team in staff planning.
Whether on a smartphone, tablet or PC: employees always have their shift schedule at hand, can easily swap shifts via the digital exchange platform, submit vacation requests or enter preferred shifts using Self Rostering. Managers approve requests with a single click. This noticeably reduces administrative inquiries in the HR office and strengthens trust across the team.

With the workforce management solution from plano, you invest not only in modern software, but in measurable economic success. Our customers show: digitized and AI-driven processes drastically reduce costs for scheduling and absences, while productivity and employee retention increase.

Accelerate your shift scheduling and leave routine tasks to our AI. Schedule Optimization from plano creates and optimizes complex shift plans in just a few minutes. It intelligently combines employee preferences, qualifications, ergonomic criteria and operational framework conditions. Unpopular shifts are distributed fairly across the team, vacation requests are coordinated smoothly and understaffing is proactively avoided. The result: maximum fairness within the team and top planning quality with minimal time investment.

Record, evaluate and directly process working hours: plano time recording fully complies with all legal requirements under current working time directives. Whether at a stationary terminal, web-based at the workstation, or mobile via app, hours are documented reliably and tamper-proof. The highlight: working times, breaks, premiums and absences are matched in real time with staff scheduling and evaluated automatically. This ensures error-free payroll preparation without manual duplicate entries.

Short-term sick leave or unexpected workload peaks? With plano Pooling, you respond dynamically to staffing shortages and fill bottlenecks quickly.
plano Pooling bundles employees with comparable skill sets into flexible talent pools to absorb shortages across multiple locations and departments. Based on current availabilities, the system automatically identifies suitable candidates for open shifts and contacts them directly via push notification. This allows staffing bottlenecks to be

Seamless verification of competencies is indispensable, especially in safety-critical or heavily regulated fields of activity. With Qualification Management from plano, you keep a centralized eye on all certificates, licenses and mandatory training sessions of your workforce. The system automatically monitors expiration dates, provides timely alerts for upcoming refresher courses and prevents underqualified personnel from being scheduled for sensitive tasks. In addition, you can plan and organize further education and training directly in alignment with the shift schedule.

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We have the right solution for your industry’s requirements.
Deploy your sales staff precisely during peak hours. plano accurately balances customer traffic and seasonal peaks, optimizes store management and reduces costly overstaffing.
Ensure maximum operational readiness for police, fire departments and public administration. The software masters complex, rotating shift patterns and consistently implements collective bargaining regulations in full legal compliance.
Reliably maintain your service level agreements even during unexpected call spikes. Through precise forecasts and skill-based staff planning, agents are scheduled according to their strengths and idle times are minimized.
Ensure reliable patient care in 24/7 operations and automatically comply with all complex regulations. Flexible employee pools cushion sudden staff shortages and protect nursing and healthcare staff from overload.
Flexibly schedule ground handling, technical services and security personnel around the clock. The software responds in real time to flight schedule changes and ensures that fully certified specialist staff is always on duty.
Steer your workforce across multiple locations and master fluctuating order volumes in 24/7 shift operations. plano automatically m

Use our plano cloud for maximum flexibility (hosted in the ISO 27001-certified AWS data center in Frankfurt am Main, GDPR-compliant) or operate the software traditionally within your own IT infrastructure.
plano seamlessly connects to your existing IT landscape. Standard connectors and open REST APIs enable bidirectional data exchange with leading payroll and HR systems (SAP HR, DATEV, LOGA, PAISY, BMD, Sage, and many more).
Working and break regulations, minimum rest periods or special collective agreement rules: plano checks all schedules in the background and reliably protects you against regulatory violations and fines.
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In our first meeting, we will analyze your current state. Within the scope of an as-is process analysis, we will determine problem areas and discuss initial solution steps with plano WFM.
We define your concrete requirements in a functional specification document, finetune the contents, and plan implementation with plano WFM.
We configure and implement the software based on your requirements. After a test phase, approval and rollout of the system will take place. Even after this step, we will continue to support you with heart and mind.
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