Dynaplan

Planning in times of COVID-19

We hope that you, your family, and your colleagues are well, and that the COVID-19 pandemic is not making life and business too difficult for you.

After the initial fire-fighting, many companies have adjusted their operative processes to the new situation. Looking ahead, companies are already preparing to ramp up their operations again. However, it is still highly uncertain how the pandemic will develop and what its consequences will be.

Selecting just one single scenario as the basis of planning is quite hazardous in this situation. Instead, a spectrum of possible developments should be identified and analysed. To do so, scenario-based simulation has proven very valuable.

At Dynaplan we are currently running with full capacity to help not just our clients but also critical health-care institutions to use our scenario-planning solution to ensure that people in need receive the best possible care.

Solutions

Planning for tomorrow

There is not just one valid forecast. On the contrary, decision making should not rely on one single prediction, but instead manage risks and opportunities supported by scenario planning. Utilizing our way of modelling with dynamic simulation, we have developed a generic approach to mastering complexity in many different areas.

Take a look at the value our skilled experts have engineered, and get up to speed by benefiting from our years of experience working with international clients.

Dynamic business
planning

Traditional budgeting processes are no longer sufficient to cover the volatility and uncertainty of today’s markets. Dynamic business planning allows you to simulate the effects of external drivers on your performance.

The process of dynamic
business planning

Strategic
workforce planning

Explore the dynamics of your workforce, and identify the key challenges of today and tomorrow. Modify your assumptions of the key drivers, of your stock of employees, and most importantly, the demand.

All about strategic
workforce planning

Health care
planning

Our health care systems will face many challenges in the coming years. See how simulations of the patient flow through a hospital can help you with planning and resource allocation.

Forward-looking
health care planning

Featured solution

HR Match is probably the fastest and most cost-efficient way ever for small and mid-size companies to get value from strategic workforce planning.

Check out the video to learn why SWP is more important than ever, how our approach works, and what you have to do to get started right away.

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Technology

Dynaplan Smia represents a new modelling paradigm. It combines features of spreadsheets, presentation software, and simulation into an integrated modelling environment.

Smia is easy to use, but it is also a powerful tool, including object-oriented features, dynamic simulation, risk and uncertainty (Monte Carlo) analysis, optimisation, and sensitivity analysis.

The system automates the task of maintaining the links between visualisations, data, and equations. Smia ensures consistency while reducing the amount of manual work involved in building, maintaining, and validating models.

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Testimonials

**Frank Vonderlind** Leiter HR Strategy & Research Commerzbank

Dynaplan combines consistent methodology with a powerful planning tool and a strong customer focus. As a result, there is a clear added value to strategic workforce planning, and HR is strengthened as a business partner.

Dynaplans dynamic scenario simulation solution supports BMWs workforce planning worldwide.

**Claus Wachenheim** Vice President Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, People Analytics, HR Lufthansa Group

Strategic Workforce Planning with Dynaplan is a key component of our modern HR Management. The solution runs close to the business to get a positive customer experience.

**Dr. Sebastian Döring** Head of Global Strategic Workforce Planning Audi Group

The Dynaplan simulation tool has been an important cornerstone of developing our Strategic Workforce Planning approach for the Audi Group. In our collaboration we have moreover benefited tremendously from the conceptual insights of the Dynaplan team.

**Gernot Backhaus** Head of HR Management Techniker Krankenkasse

The cooperation with Dynaplan proved to be most constructive and goal-oriented in every phase of the project. In particular, the participation of the divisions in the increasingly important issue of long-term strategic workforce planning could be easily and comprehensively achieved, and the complex cause-and-effect relationships were adequately represented in the Smia planning model.

**Claudia de Andrés-Gayón** Head of HR Controlling, Employment Pool Deutsche Bahn AG

For the first time we get systematic and group-wide consistent insights into the overall demographic risks of our workforce and can evaluate the necessary countermeasures.

**Monica Klaas-Kütt** Strategy & Projects Bayer AG

Thanks to Dynaplan’s flexible SWP solution we can model business specific drivers and share the insights easily with different stakeholders. The scenario simulation approach supports our people analytics toolbox at Bayer.

**Johannes Kolnes** Special Consultant Haukeland University Hospital

The Smia model did not just help us find today's bottlenecks, but also to see the likely future consequences when the patient flow is predicted to grow in volume and diversity.

**Jürgen Günther** Head HR Management AOK

For more than 10 years, Dynaplan has provided us with a robust, pragmatic, and highly automated scenario methodology that secures high quality in planning and creates transparency in a complex world.

**Frank Kamp** Divisional head HR and Services Emschergenossenschaft & Lippeverband

The requirements for regional water management are constantly evolving. To assist our company with the right know-how also in the future, we count on modern strategic workforce planning with Dynaplan HR Match. In a few steps, corporate data is turned into a transparent picture about future scenarios and corresponding HR measures.

**Christian Prange** Senior HR-Controller HR-Strategie/HR-Analytics REWE Group

Dynaplan Smia is the “swiss army knife” of strategic scenario planning. The high degree of flexibility allows a very specific modelling according to the company’s needs and elaborate tailor-made solutions to the HR challenges ahead.

From the modeling point of view Smia has two outstanding features: The strong support of large models through submodels, components, and correct unit treatment and the ability to load data as well as metadata directly from SAP Business Warehouse. Even for comprehensive models the training period for new maintainers is astonishing short.

Events

Advanced Smia User Training

When: 29 Sep to 30 Nov 2020
Where: 2x online Webinar & 1x in Ingolstadt, DE
Format: Virtual and physical classroom

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Driver-based simulation in managerial accounting

When: 13 Oct 2020 13:00 to 13:45
Where: Online Webinar (Webex)
Price: Free of charge

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Getting started with strategic workforce planning (English)

When: 15 Oct 2020 11:00 to 12:00
Where: Online Webinar (Webex)
Price: Free of charge

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News

SAP integration certification

Dynaplan Smia has been SAP certified since 2014. We are proud that our software yet again passed SAP’s certification tests flawlessly.

Dynaplan Smia is certified for integration with SAP Business Warehouse 7.50 via the SAP integration scenario BW-XMLA 3.0.

Planning outside the bandwidth

In times of great uncertainty and big changes, it is widely accepted that planning needs to be based on future scenarios rather than trends and predictions. Forget about machine learning. Forget about artificial intelligence. Forget about data mining. They all fail because they rely on data which won’t be available until long after we must decide how to deal with the situation. How do we create scenarios that can help us come safely through the different paths this virus might take us through?

HR Match in use at Stadtwerke Solingen

SWP is not only a topic for the very big corporations. An article published in PERSONALFÜHRUNG 11/2019 describes how, after attending one of our free webinars, Stadtwerke Solingen started using our preconfigured planning tool HR Match to analyse their workforce planning challenges, and how they derived robust measures to address them.

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Dynaplan in the media

Dynaplan is frequently covered by the media. We have collected some of our appearances in newspapers, journals, radio and TV, in addition to our scientific publications. The material also includes awards we have won or been nominated for.

Dynaplan in the media

About Dynaplan

Dynaplan – Dynamic planning

Armed with over 25 years of experience in the field of modelling and scenario planning, we have created an advanced and flexible tool for strategic business planning: Dynaplan Smia. Combined with our unique analytics technology, proven scenario simulation methodology and experienced analysts, we deliver state of the art solutions in such varied areas as health care planning, finance and controlling, and human resource management.

Dynaplan’s mission is to contribute to increased quality in strategic and operational planning. Within our solutions, customers can explore the future effect of today’s decisions to balance out risks and opportunities. Therefore we provide our customers with tailored models based on their realities and expertise. Both planners and decision makers are empowered by the software we provide, enabling data collection, scenario building, analysis, viewing results, and presentation all in the same tool.

Don’t leave the future to chance. Act today.

Yngve Mellingen

Partner

Kai Berendes

Executive partner

Magne Myrtveit

Chairman and executive partner

Our history and awards

Dynaplan is a privately owned company incorporated in Manger, Norway and St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Since its incorporation in 2004, Dynaplan has developed a sustainable customer base. In our strategic workforce planning solution, global players like BMW and Deutsche Bahn manage more than 1 million employees. Have a look at our testimonials to see more of our customers.

In 2008 we achieved AAA credit rating, which has been our rating every year since. In 2013 we were part of Deloitte’s Fast 50 list of the fastest growing technology companies in Norway. Also, Dynaplan was selected as a “cool vendor” (innovative, impactful and intriguing) by analyst Gartner in 2013. In March 2014, SAP certified Dynaplan’s interface to SAP/BW. Also in 2014, Dynaplan started providing our Strategic workforce planning solutions through partnering. In 2016 Dynaplan proudly received the “Business Supercharger” award for our work in people analytics.

Career

Dynaplan is best represented by its innovative, dynamic and impactful business solutions, which are developed and customized by our highly skilled and motivated employees. If you enjoy working with state-of-the-art software and challenging international customers, Dynaplan might be the place for you. Please contact us if you want to learn more about Dynaplan and our open positions.

Dynaplan is sponsoring the European Master in System Dynamics (EMSD). The programme is specifically designed for students who are interested in learning how to initiate strategic change in organisations, supported by the use of computer simulation models. Take a closer look at the programme’s structure and curriculum here.

Contact

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Dynaplan AS Hellandsneset 81 | N-5936 Manger
Organisation number: 986 751 459 MVA Dynaplan AG Oberer Graben 3 | CH-9000 St. Gallen
Organisation number: CHE-179.918.186 MWST

Email: contact@dynaplan.com