FirstEnergy Deploys a Workforce Planning Dashboard

SOLUTION overview

With support from WIT, FirstEnergy deployed a data discovery dashboard to support workforce personnel planning throughout the enterprise.

INDUSTRY

Electric Utility Services

FUNCTION

Workforce Planning

GEOGRAPHY

Akron, OH – Corporate Headquarters

BACKGROUND

FirstEnergy Corp is an electric utility involved in the distribution, transmission, and generation of electricity, as well as energy management and other energy-related services. Its ten electric utility operating companies comprise one of the United States' largest investor-owned utilities, based on serving 6 million customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York.

PROJECT

Large utility companies face unique challenges when it comes to workforce and asset management. With hundreds of field crews with equipment across multiple states, workforce planning is a complex task. The purpose of the Workforce Planning Analytical Dashboard was to create enterprise visibility to personnel headcount changes on a daily basis. Key opportunities for this project included: 

• Improve visibility into current personnel headcount actuals, budget, and forecast with variances
• Provide enterprise analytics with section-access for users

SOLUTION

With WIT’s assistance, FirstEnergy deployed a custom, multi-dimensional dashboard to support workforce personnel planning throughout the enterprise with section access for different types of users.

OUTCOMES

The Workforce Planning Analytics Dashboard combines multiple data sources to provide visibility into personnel headcount compared to budget and forecast. This dashboard extends reporting capabilities across the enterprise while limited access to specific users to ensure the security of the highly sensitive data. The full view of this dashboard gives planners the tools to quickly view workforce planning KPI’s, drill down into data, and ad hoc reporting. Key outcomes included:

• Gained the ability to track and quantify key workforce planning metrics
• Enhanced existing capability to create multi-dimensional dashboards with aggregated key metrics, drill-downs capabilities, and ad hoc reporting functions
• Extended access to data analytics to the enterprise while protecting sensitive personnel data

About WIT

WIT is an analytics and automation consulting firm with over 25 years of experience. We help our clients build solutions to maximize the value of their data and analytics assets, and automate key business processes. In partnership with elite software companies, WIT’s capabilities span a broad spectrum of business functions and industry verticals. To learn more about the work we have done for our clients, visit Our Experience page.