Kahuna Skills Aggregator
Site-Level Precision. Enterprise-Level Language.
Organizations have validated skills data for their frontline, captured every day in the flow of work. What’s missing is a way to turn that data into something the rest of the enterprise can use. Skills Aggregator translates site-specific validated frontline skills into one enterprise language that your planning, deployment, development, and compensation systems can all run on. Move “skills-based organization” from a concept on a strategy slide to how the business actually operates.
Build the Foundation a Skills-Based Organization Actually Needs
From workforce planning and cross-site deployment to development investment, succession, and pay, Skills Aggregator helps you run on evidence of what’s actually happening on the plant, unit, or site floor, instead of guesswork.
Speak One Language, Across Every Site
Skills Aggregator rolls skills into one capability the enterprise can plan, staff, and report against, without asking any site to rename what it already tracks.
Deploy the Right Person, Every Time
Bring validated capability data into the scheduling and deployment decisions you already make, so the person assigned to a critical task has the evidence to do it, not just the job title.
Ask Nothing New of the Workforce
Put data that's already validated in Skills Manager to work immediately, with no new app, no self-rating campaign, and no second system to maintain.
Aim Training at What Actually Moves the Needle
See where your bench is deep, where it's thin, and who is closest to ready on each capability, so training dollars build the depth the operation needs instead of being spread evenly across the org.
Close Single Points of Failure Before They Cost You
See exactly where only one or two people hold a critical capability, so you can cross-train or redistribute expertise before turnover or a surge turns it into a gap.
Find the Skills You Need from Within
Before hiring for a new line, facility, or technology, identify employees from within who already hold the capability the new work needs. Redeploy existing talent, then hire or contract only for the remaining gaps.
One Source of Truth for What Your Frontline Workforce Can Actually Do
Stop guessing who is ready for the next shift, the next project, or the next launch. Skills Aggregator builds one capability layer across the enterprise, turning skills already validated in Skills Manager into a current, evidence-backed view of what your people can actually do now, and what your organization is capable of doing next.
Visualize Readiness at Every Level of the Enterprise
See workforce readiness at a glance, from a single site to the entire business. The Capability Matrix rolls up thousands of granular, site-specific skills into enterprise capabilities, so you can pinpoint exactly where you have qualified people to execute and where your operations are exposed.
Standardize Your Skills Without Disrupting Your Sites
Give every site room to work its own way, without losing consistency. Skills Aggregator maps each site’s diverse local tasks and terminology to one standardized enterprise framework, so you get the reporting and mobility consistency leadership needs, without forcing local teams to change the tools or processes they already rely on.
See Who’s Actually Qualified & Validated, Not Just Self-Reported
Move beyond self-reported resumes and static job titles. For any capability, Skills Aggregator shows you exactly who holds it, each with a proficiency score and a confidence score. Both are built from skills already validated in Skills Manager, drawing on on-the-job training, formal assessments, and real-world experience. Every name on the list is earned, not inferred from a title.
Turn Workforce Risk Into Targeted Investment
Stop spending your training budget in the dark. The Capability Insights Dashboard shows where your bench is deep, where it’s thin, where a critical capability rests on one or two people, and who is closest to ready, so development investment goes where it protects safety, quality, and capacity.
Bridge the Gap Between the Field and the Front Office
Get more out of your HCM investment by feeding validated operational data into systems like Workday or SAP SuccessFactors. Succession planning, career pathing, and internal mobility can finally run on the actual skills your workforce demonstrates in the flow of work every day.
Built for Multi-Site, Frontline Operations
Skills Aggregator is built for enterprise workforce leaders across industries where the frontline is the majority of the workforce. With Skills Aggregator, granular, site-level skills roll up into one capability the enterprise can plan, deploy, develop, and pay against.
From Line-Level Task to Enterprise Capability
From Site-Level Certification to Enterprise Capability
From Unit-Level Competencies to Enterprise Capability
Plants may validate related skills under local names, such as Tool & Die Exchange, Setup & Recipe Load, and First-Piece Buyoff. Skills Aggregator maps them to one enterprise capability, Production Line Changeover & Setup, supporting consistent workforce planning, cross-plant deployment, and compensation during launches, ramp-ups, and consolidations.
Assets may validate related skills under local names, such as Vibration Data Collection – Unit 5, Thermal Imaging – Cooler Fan Drives & Motors, and Rotating Equipment Health Check – Station 4. Skills Aggregator maps them to one enterprise capability, Rotating Equipment Condition Monitoring, supporting consistent workforce planning, cross-asset deployment, and succession during turnarounds, drilling campaigns, and workforce retirements.
Hospitals may validate related competencies under local names, such as Sepsis Screening, Fluid Resuscitation Sign-Off, and Code Sepsis Activation. Skills Aggregator maps them to one enterprise capability, Sepsis Recognition & Bundle Initiation, supporting workforce planning, system-wide float deployment, and development without requiring clinicians to self-rate or complete another assessment.
Trade Manual Mapping and Guesswork for One Validated Skills & Capability Language
Turning granular frontline skills into standardized enterprise capabilities is often a manual project today. Skills Aggregator automates this translation, without asking any site to change the local systems or data it already tracks.
Without Skills Aggregator
- Hand-mapping thousands of work descriptions to a competency catalogue, one spreadsheet at a time
- A consultant-built framework that's a static snapshot the day it ships
- Proficiency inferred from job title, tenure, and a manager's tribal knowledge
- Two disconnected systems with validated data in one and self-reported skills in another
- A new self-rating or assessment campaign every time HR needs fresh data
- Skills named differently at every site, plant, or unit are unusable at the enterprise level
- A single "primary role" field standing in for real capability
With Skills Aggregator
- Skills mapped to capability automatically with human review only where it's uncertain
- A framework built from your own work, kept current by the skills your sites validate every day
- Proficiency computed from assessments operations has already validated
- One capability layer built on Skills Manager and delivered into your HCM, with no duplicate entry
- Nothing new asked of the workforce because the data already exists
- Locally accurate skill names normalized into one enterprise-legible capability
- A proficiency score and confidence score behind every planning and deployment decision
Skills Aggregator is Built to Work With the Systems You Already Run
Kahuna delivers validated capability and proficiency data into Workday Skills Cloud through a pre-built connector, and into the rest of your HCM, planning, and operational stack through the Capability API and data exports.
Frequently Asked Questions About Skills Aggregator
Skills Aggregator automatically translates the validated, granular skill data Kahuna Skills Manager already collects into enterprise-level capabilities your operations, talent, and HCM teams can plan, deploy, develop, and compensate against, without any new burden on your workforce.
Most skills-based-org strategies stall because there’s no usable capability data for the frontline—the technicians, operators, and clinicians who make up most of the workforce. Skills Aggregator supplies that data by translating what’s already validated at the site level into one enterprise capability language, so planning, deployment, development, and pay can run on evidence for your whole workforce, not just the roles that already had clean data.
Skills Manager validates and serves as the system of record for competency assessment. Skills Aggregator translates what Skills Manager validates into an enterprise capability layer. It doesn’t replace Skills Manager or create a second, competing record. It makes trusted data usable well beyond the site where it was collected.
Yes. Skills Aggregator aggregates validated evidence, and Skills Manager is where that validation happens. Without it, there’s nothing trustworthy to roll up. Customers add Skills Aggregator to a live Skills Manager deployment, or deploy both together.
No. Kahuna’s AI-powered Skills Aggregator returns a qualified pool with proficiency and confidence scores attached. Your systems and your people make the final call, using your own rules.
No. Skills Aggregator is built entirely on data your organization already validates in Skills Manager. There’s no new app, no self-rating, and no second system for employees to keep up to date.
Skills and competencies are the site-owned, observable, validated actions captured in Kahuna Skills Manager. Capabilities are the enterprise decision-making unit those skills and competencies roll up to, which is what the business actually plans, staffs, and invests against.
Multi-site, frontline-heavy organizations in energy, manufacturing, healthcare, and field service, particularly organizations already running or planning to run validated skill data in Kahuna Skills Manager.
No. Skills Manager remains the system of record for compliance and audit. Skills Aggregator is the skills translation layer, built for workforce planning, talent, and operational use cases.
Skills Aggregator delivers capability data into Workday Skills Cloud through a pre-built connector, and into other HCM, planning, and operational systems through the Capability API and data exports.