The Essential Guide to Selecting Workforce Management Software

Have you made the decision to seriously consider switching to workforce management software that fully supports how you operate? Your workforce management solution is critical to efficiently running your organization. Changing it is no small task, so it’s important to take time to evaluate your options.

Use this guide to help you identify how your needs have evolved in the context of the business challenges, regulatory changes and worker expectations you’ve encountered:

  • Examine your operational and people-focused requirements
  • Understand the implications of implementing a new solution
  • Select a solution that improves performance now and adapts moving forward

The top three reasons for changing your workforce management software

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Product sunset

You’re being forced to select a new solution because your legacy application provider is sunsetting their current product

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Evolving needs

Your needs are no longer what they were a few years ago given the pace of change in regulations and worker demands

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Agile scalability

Your manual processes and homegrown applications don’t enable rapid adaptability, automation or global scale

What to look for in an enterprise workforce management solution

A fully modern workforce management system provides a comprehensive set of capabilities for improving time management, employee experience and operational excellence.

Enables intelligent planning to match labor supply with the optimal labor needed to meet current demand. Reduces manual work with digital assistants and automation.

Simplifies compliance across multiple countries, no matter how unique the pay rules, labor regulations, schedules or policies. Allows people to adapt rapidly to changing schedules while meeting federal, state and union compliance requirements.

Goes beyond simple chat systems to integrated workflow-driven communications that leverage data, advanced analytics and automation in real time and in the flow of work. Enables co-workers and their managers to adapt and communicate quickly through mobile devices.

Offers predictive analytics and insights to take proactive actions. Allows for the monitoring, comparison and assessment of data generated across employee populations, locations and divisions to discover best practices and accelerate adoption.

Gives people more independence and flexibility to autonomously swap shifts and makes it simple for managers to see whether shift requests are feasible. Fosters a sense of community and collaboration.

Offers global protection against data security breaches. Includes multiple co-located global SaaS facilities with primary and disaster recovery data centers and data encryption to safeguard information from unauthorized access.

Why you should consider ADP® WorkForce Suite

Built with a deep understanding of our clients’ technology environments, ADP WorkForce Suite delivers an enterprise workforce management solution that works for you, available unified with ADP’s human capital management (HCM) platform and integrated with any other HCM/payroll, so you don’t have to compromise. 

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Unified workforce management within the ADP HCM ecosystem

ADP WorkForce Suite is part of ADP’s HCM ecosystem, so it’s built to work together. With one login, one interface and one shared navigation across time, pay and HR, ADP WorkForce Suite provides a single source of truth for your workforce data. The result is an easier, smarter and more human experience for managers and their teams everywhere.

Our unified offering
ADP WorkForce Suite works seamlessly inside the ADP HCM ecosystem for everything to manage a workforce.

ADP® Lyric HCM

ADP® Global Payroll

ADP Workforce Now®

Certified integrations with technology partners for extended value

ADP WorkForce Suite is designed to operate within a large ecosystem of technology partners. You can easily share data between ADP WorkForce Suite and your other business-critical systems, including HCM and ERP platforms, and hundreds of best-of-breed solution providers for payroll, core HR, operations, access control and more.

Our technology partners
ADP WorkForce Suite integrates with leading HCM and ERP systems for an all-in-one solution.

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If you’re clear about your needs and goals, we look forward to designing a solution that meets all your requirements.

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