ReBudget

Smarter Labour Budgeting, Built for Your Business

What is ReBudget?

A workload model is the business tool that helps you achieve the best allocation of available salary and/or hours budgets to support delivery of your strategy and operating model.

ReBudget is a powerful workload modelling solution that helps businesses create accurate, bottom-up labour budgets tailored to their unique operations.

Whether using our flexible, Excel-based ‘ReBudget’ model for customised budgeting, or via ‘ReBudget Plus’, our cloud-based platform with real-time collaboration, and automation, organisations can generate, adjust, and strategically plan budgets with confidence.

Ensure the right hours and costs are budgeted to deliver your operational targets.

How can it help?

ReThink’s ReBudget service offers bespoke workload models tailored to your unique business operations. We collaborate with you to design and build models that accurately reflect your specific needs.

ReBudget
(Excel-based):

Custom model design developed in partnership with ReThink experts
Comprehensive build, test, and handover process
Training and documentation provided for seamless model management
Flexible ongoing support options for budget changes, model amendments, and more. You choose the level of assistance you require

ReBudget Plus
(Online Solution):

Enhance your budgeting process with ReBudget Plus. Building on the foundation of our Excel models, this online solution provides all the benefits of ReBudget, plus:

Enhanced security with a full audit trail of user changes
Dynamic reporting capabilities
Advanced “what-if” modelling options

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Feature Comparison

Find Your Ideal Match: Review the feature breakdown to pinpoint the solution that delivers the functionality your business demands:

	ReBudget	ReBudget Plus
Custom built workload model using your business drivers
Calculates workload (hours and costs) by week or day, by site
Comprehensive build test and training
Quick – runs budgets in minutes
Model updates and budget changes	Self-serve changes or option for ReThink support	Self-serve changes or option for ReThink support
Automated Model change go live	Changes manually triggered	Start dates set and auto implemented
“What if?” modelling	By comparing separate model versions	Holds and compares multiple model versions
Dashboard reporting	Within Excel functionality limits	Enhanced, dynamic reporting options
Access control	Within Excel functionality limits	Named user access control and audit log
Model output integration to workforce management solutions	Manual export	Integrated via API

What we do

ReThink guide you through model design, build and beyond. With options to self-manage or rely on ReThink support

Design Workshop

A working session to get under the skin of your operational workload – what are the workload drivers? What driver data is available? How is your business structured? So we design a model that reflects your unique operation.

Build Labour Model

Our Labour Model Specialists will build your labour model – working collaboratively with regular check ins so the model meets your business’s requirements.

Validation & Output

Test and validate that the model is running well and outputting the data and reports you need. We provide training and handover advice too. ReBudget can also output data to your WFM platform if required.

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Case studies

Center Parcs

The Center Parcs team asked ReThink to help them measure how long core tasks take and create a workload model to calculate the hours required to feed into the scheduling solution.

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Lincolnshire Co-op

ReThink is a trusted partner of several regional convenience retailers, all using ReBudget to underpin decisions around how many people they need to achieve their operational targets.

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Testimonials

“We would highly recommend ReThink to any business looking to optimise their operating model and drive business improvement. Their expertise, professionalism, and collaborative approach make them a pleasure to work with, and we look forward to continuing our partnership in the future.”

Andy Warman, Head of Strategy & Transformation, Lincolnshire Co-op

“Using the ReBudget labour model, we were able to determine the true cost of operating our units, which gave us better visibility into resource allocation and the financial impact of our staffing decisions. Throughout the process, we worked closely with the ReThink team to refine the model based on our specific working practices and service delivery standards. This collaboration allowed us to fine-tune the model to fit our unique needs.”

Paul Stewart, Head of Operations Support, Center Parcs

“We use the ReBudget labour model to define our labour budgets, and we can now understand if we remove a task in store what the impact is in hours, by store and at business level, and the same goes if we add additional tasks in. Updating the model is really intuitive, once you have the data you just need to drop it in.”

Mark Barnett, Productivity and Improvement Manager, Southern Co-op

“The model has given us a new way to look at stores, helping us validate the impact of deployments like electronic shelf labels and self-checkouts. It has highlighted areas where we can increase productivity and ensures stores are measured fairly. This data driven approach helps shape our future operating model, guiding decisions on task management and new technologies. It has also supported workforce planning by allowing us to model daily hours in our WFM system based on key tasks like deliveries and promotional planning.”

Allan Robertson, Programme Manager, Services. ScotMid Co-op

“The Rethink team have been exceptional in building a model that supports the requirements of our business and introducing solutions to address future requirements. Maintaining the model is vital with on demand support, provided from an open-minded partnership.”

Operations Lead, East of England Co-op

Workload & Salary Model Whitepaper

Learn more about workload & salary models by downloading the whitepaper gives you practical knowhow and advice for implementing a workload & salary model.

Download Workload & Salary Model Whitepaper

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