To support more informed and efficient compensation planning, the client partnered with E1 to implement the Compensation Forecaster App using Workday Extend. This powerful solution enabled advanced modeling and forecasting of pay changes across the workforce, providing real-time visibility into cost impacts and compensation scenarios. By combining analytics, forecasting, and execution within a single Workday experience, E1 Consulting helped the organization move toward more data-driven, accurate, and scalable compensation decision-making.
Operating at scale as a retail giant in the U.S., the client oversees a broad and distributed workforce. As compensation planning grew more complex, the organization sought a more data-driven, scalable approach to compensation planning while maintaining accuracy, consistency, and financial discipline.
The key constraints that the client faced while managing compensation planning at scale are:
The client set out to bring greater clarity and confidence to compensation planning across the organization. Rather than relying on static analysis or manual adjustments, the goal was to introduce a more dynamic way to evaluate pay scenarios, understand cost implications, and support informed decision-making. The organization also aimed to reduce operational friction, improve consistency across regions, and ensure that compensation changes could be executed efficiently within Workday without disrupting existing processes.
E1 Consulting leveraged its extensive domain knowledge and agile delivery approach to deliver the Compensation Forecaster App, a Workday Extend–based solution designed to enable data-driven compensation planning at scale. By combining forecasting, analysis, and execution within Workday, E1 helped the client drive faster, more accurate, and more controlled compensation decisions across the organization.
The engagement delivered measurable outcomes, including:
Provided real-time cost visibility to support informed pay revision decisions
Reduced manual analysis and eliminated spreadsheet-heavy workflows
Improved forecasting precision, minimizing the risk of under- or over-budgeting
Combined scenario planning and execution within a single application
Supported enterprise-level compensation changes across thousands of employees