Implement workforce management around the way your organisation works. From a new deployment to a wider rollout or additional capabilities, CDS brings expertise across design, configuration, integration, reporting and launch readiness. One accountable team, working with yours from the first decisions through to a supported handover.
A successful implementation is not simply a configured system. Your managers need workable processes, employees need clear ways to use the tools, and payroll and HR teams need information they can trust. We work with you to define the outcomes, make the important design decisions and turn them into a solution that reflects your operating model. Requirements, configuration, interfaces, reports and testing are treated as parts of the same delivery, not disconnected workstreams.
The experts behind your success, from the first design decision to a supported handover.
Our team brings 150+ years of combined workforce management expertise. That experience helps us ask the right questions, recognise delivery risks and connect detailed configuration decisions with the outcomes your business needs.
Multiple sites, different employee groups, varied shift patterns and local requirements need a coherent design. We help you distinguish what should be standardised from what genuinely needs to vary, with decisions documented for delivery and future change.
We work with UK and international organisations. For a multi-region rollout, we agree how local stakeholders, working hours and decision-making will fit into the delivery plan, rather than treating every location as identical.
The starting point is how your organisation needs to operate. We bring relevant experience across sectors, while working with your subject-matter experts to understand the policies, processes and exceptions that matter to your teams.
Configuration is only part of the solution. Our in-house integration, reporting and development specialists can work alongside the implementation team, bringing interfaces and operational information into the design and test plan rather than leaving them until launch.
Agree what will be delivered, who owns each decision and how readiness will be demonstrated. We make assumptions, dependencies and changes visible, so your team can act on risks early and make informed decisions throughout the programme.
A structured delivery approach, tailored to your scope, starting point and internal capability. We can lead the agreed implementation or provide specialist support within your wider programme.
Define the outcomes, users and processes the implementation must support. Review requirements, policies, data and system dependencies with your stakeholders, then agree the solution design, scope, responsibilities and acceptance criteria.
Build the agreed WFM configuration and coordinate the interfaces and reports needed around it. Keep design decisions and dependencies visible, with regular reviews as the solution takes shape.
Identify the data needed for the agreed rollout, confirm ownership and validate the records to be loaded. Reconcile results and agree any historical-data, retention or archive requirements explicitly, rather than assuming every project needs the same approach.
Prepare representative scenarios and support system, integration and user acceptance testing. Validate workflows, pay-related outputs and exceptions with your business owners, track issues and assess the evidence against the agreed acceptance criteria.
Plan the rollout, cutover activities, communications and training around the people affected. Agree launch responsibilities and decision points, and support your teams as the solution moves into everyday use.
Support stabilisation within an agreed scope and coverage period. Transfer configuration knowledge, operating guidance and outstanding actions to the people who will own the solution, with a clear route into ongoing support where required.

Shape your requirements, solution design and delivery decisions with experienced workforce management consultants.

Connect WFM with HR, payroll and related systems, with clear ownership of data flows, validation and exception handling.

Turn workforce data into useful operational and management information, with reporting designed around agreed requirements.

Add purpose-built applications and tools where your requirements extend beyond standard system capabilities.
Continue beyond launch with scoped WFM support, with service coverage, capacity and responsibilities agreed around your needs.

Help employees, managers and administrators use the solution confidently, with role-based training tailored to your configuration and workflows.
Not every implementation starts with a blank system. You may be bringing another business unit onto an existing platform, adding functionality or completing a workstream within a wider programme. We can own an agreed scope or work alongside your internal team, the vendor and other partners. The starting point is a clear definition of the change, its users and a successful outcome.
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