Workforce Planning Platform

The future of workforce planning is lean, collaborative, and agile.

OLD

No source-of-truth with headcount spreadsheets everywhere

Redundant data entry and manual reconciliations

Finance, Talent, and HR operate in silos

Workforce and budget reporting is manual and time-consuming

NEW

Plans, approvals, and analytics, all in one platform

Unified workforce planning and a single source of truth

Automated data flows with integrations to HCM, ATS, and Financial Planning

Provide self-serve analytics and improve performance to plan

Solutions

No team left behind.

Headcount management is a team effort — from the moment a role is planned, through hiring, updates, termination and backfills. Trace is the hub that gets everyone aligned and working towards the same goal.

Finance

Get annual planning, re-orgs, and forecasting done in less time, with more collaboration and control. Share analytics, without the pain of spreadsheet reconciliations.

Talent Ops

Get visibility into hiring plans and ensure positions are approved for recruiting. Automatically turn positions into reqs and eliminate manual hiring trackers.

HR

Be involved in every aspect of org design. Get visibility into financial constraints and use positions to manage internal mobility and succession planning. Improve partnerships with all stakeholders.

Management

Get self-serve access to your budget and hiring plans. View future org charts and get analytics for your team. Focus on strategy and execution without getting bogged down with tedious workforce planning tasks.

Planning

Build headcount plans in one place.

Give hiring managers self-service access to planning tools in Trace. Free finance and people teams from doing low-value busywork like collecting DIY spreadsheets. And have the time to start providing truly valuable business partnership.

Distribute budget targets

Capture hiring plans

Share approval status

Align on decisions

Workflows

Manage ongoing changes to plans.

Requests & Approvals

Capture requests and trigger approvals with a simple form for new hires, comp increases, department transfers, and other events.

Backfills and Other Changes

Track backfills, transfers, swaps and other changes. See a record of all change events associated with any employee.

Compensation Guidance

Hiring costs go way beyond salaries. Trace helps hiring managers plan for the full budget impact of their decisions.

Comments

Ask and answer questions on the spot. Clear up any confusion and keep hiring on track.

Review Policies

Setup multi-step workflows. Require approval or simply notify the recipient.

Complex Conditions

Trigger reviews or field requirement based on complex conditional logic.

Dashboard & Analytics

Deliver insights on demand.

Budget Impact Analysis

See available budget and the potential impact of your plans on funds remaining.

Hiring Tracker

Keep tabs on the status of your open headcount as it progresses through recruiting stages.

Budget vs Forecast Analysis

See where there’s variance and drill down to understand why.

Attrition Analysis

Predict attrition so you can mitigate its impact on your targets.

Budget Dashboard

Get a complete picture of your headcount expenses.

Integrations

Consolidate and reconcile your data.

Trace marries data from your request workflows with data from your HR and applicant tracking systems. And gives you a master view of positions open and positions filled. All reconciled back to the positions you planned.

View all our Integrations