Hi, I was just going through the presentation on Manpower Planning , it's fine and good effort from Sidheshwar.
Seema, now since you are, looking forward for MPP in a manufacturing setup. I would like to add few points.
1. Make a spread sheet of Revenue projections from your finance people and sales people.
2. Once you are having figures for whole of the year spread over months.
You can fix up standard per employee:
Standard for production
Standard for Sales
Standard for Support Staff.
3. Once you have set up standards per staff for all functions, now divide the Standard per staff with Total revenue target for the month, this way you can make correct manpower projections for whole of the year.
Note: Standard per revenue should be different for different staff.
Production should be six times esser than sales nad ten times leasser than support staff.
e.g.
100 is the revenue target for the month.
standard per prod. employee is 5 so production staff should be 20.(100/5)
Standard per sales staff is 25, so sales staff should be 4
Standard per support staff is 50, so we need 2 people in support staff.
I believe this idea does work every where n this is the way how i am doing for my organisation.
It is Zeigler's Model.
Warm Regards
Arvind