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Workforce management and personnel planning in manufacturing & industry

Digitalize and professionalize your workforce management with Planpoint — with real-time control, grip on capacity, and integration of your people into your processes. For industrial organizations striving to work more efficient, profitable and human-centric.

Efficient planning for more productivity

Maintain control over production capacity, order volumes and the needs of your people. Translate work into lines and people — taking skills, availability and contracts into account.

Manufacturing

The bridge between production and planning

In production, everything revolves around capacity and volumes; in personnel planning, around people and contracts. Planpoint bridges both worlds in one modern workforce management platform.

Planpoint translates orders and production volumes automatically into the correct staffing: how many people you need, with what skills, directly linked to production lines and shifts. So you avoid understaffing or overstaffing and work more efficiently, productively and human-centred — all with a single solution that speaks the language of both production and HR.

Manufacturing

Flexible personnel planning

Create and manage employee-friendly rosters that align with conditions on your shop floor and your capacity needs. Keep control of fluctuating shifts, seasonal peaks and irregular working hours — without endless juggling — and always with an eye on production lines.

  • Base and shift schedules: fixed and cyclic rosters
  • Automatic scheduling and deployment: based on balances, legislation, qualifications, availability and more
  • Employee-friendly planning: accounting for preferences, contracts, rest times and wishes
  • Capacity insight: see how many people are truly needed per plant, line or unit — based on orders & forecast
  • Smart features: progressive deployment and automatic substitution in case of sickness or absence
Manufacturing

Automatic rotation

Planpoint handles the complicated balancing and automatically creates fair shift schedules. Duties, overtime and weekend shifts are distributed fairly and transparently across your workforce.

The system takes into account all relevant factors: availability, preferences, qualifications, contracts and legal regulations. Even small deviations per hour or shift are handled automatically.

Bonus function: retention rotation. Employees rotate between functions and posts automatically, keeping their skills up to date and avoiding costly retraining.

The difference: what takes planners hours is done by Planpoint in no time. The result is always a fair, employee-friendly and productive schedule — with direct time savings, fewer errors and far less operational stress.

Manufacturing

Compliance control

In a complex environment with shifts, collective labor agreements and varying working hours, compliance is essential. Planpoint supports you with automated checks on CLAs, legal regulations, internal rules and soft policies. Thus you always plan within the correct legal and organizational frameworks — without extra paperwork.

The platform gives real-time visibility into possible violations. From rest periods to contractual rules: deviations are flagged immediately so you can take action. With visual warnings, you see conflicts or breaches at a glance.

The result? Compliance becomes an integrated part of your workforce management. You maintain control, your teams operate within rules, and your organization avoids fines, risks and unnecessary stress.

Manufacturing & Logistics

Qualification management & retention

Manage competencies, skills and certificates of your employees in one central location — with instant insight into deployability. The qualification matrix shows at a glance who is certified for which task, where risks lie and what actions are needed to keep qualifications up to date.

  • Register competencies per role, team or employee
  • Link validity periods and requirements to tasks/roles
  • Receive automated reminders for missing or expired certifications
  • Ensure compliance without spreadsheets or loose lists
  • Plan targeted training and internal mobility from the matrix

So you always know who is certified to operate a welding machine, who can run specific equipment, or who holds a valid first aid or safety certificate. The qualification matrix enables team leads to quickly check whether people and tasks align perfectly.

Manufacturing

Engage your workforce

Whether you work in shifts or across multiple departments, the Planpoint app and employee portal give your workers real-time access to their schedules, worked hours and leave balance — on the shop floor, on the go or at home.

  • View shifts or team rosters and see changes immediately
  • Request swaps or leave in just a few clicks
  • Record tasks, performance and remarks on site

Planners and team leaders approve requests instantly and monitor everything centrally. This keeps your production team optimally organized — with no miscommunication or time loss.

The impact of Planpoint, at a glance

Planning on volume

Link your schedules directly to order and production volumes for maximum efficiency.

Qualifications up to date

Employees remain broadly deployable and certified thanks to smart rotation and the qualification matrix.

Flexibility

Quickly scale up or down during seasonal peaks or unexpected orders – without chaos.

Full transparency

Everyone sees the same roster and the same data in real time – clear and error-free.

Smarter schedules

Spend less time on manual scheduling – with higher quality and fewer mistakes.

Engaged employees

Give your people more control with shift preferences, swap options and direct insight into their hours.
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Time & attendance

In a production environment, every minute counts. With Planpoint, employees record their worked hours, tasks and presence easily via smartphone, kiosk or fixed terminals — quickly, accurately and in real time.

  • Record effortlessly via app, kiosk or terminal
  • Always an overview of working hours, breaks and presence
  • Automatically detect night shifts, shift bonuses and absences
  • Prevent errors with real-time checks on deviations
  • Registrations are automatically linked to your payroll or ERP system

Result: less administration, fewer errors and always a reliable foundation for scheduling and labor cost control.

One WFM Platform – Fully Tailored

From workforce planning to time tracking and more – choose only the features that fit your production organization.

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