---
title: "Target setting in Bramble"
description: "How to set and use Targets in Bramble"
url: https://support.brmbl.io/en/articles/6930406-target-setting-in-bramble
collection: "How to setup Bramble"
updated: 2025-07-24
language: en
---

# Target setting in Bramble

How to set and use Targets in Bramble

The Targets module in Bramble allows owners to set targets for various operational metrics, such as:

-   **Daily Input**
    
-   **Contribution**
    
-   **Utilization**
    
-   **Quality**
    
-   **Leave**
    
-   **Overtime**
    

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/68819d043496084e4796ea23/20250724172904_2305.png)

These targets can be used as a point of comparison against actual performance, and reflect the longer-term goals of the organization or team. Targets can be set on a quarterly or annual basis to coincide with the existing planning or budget cycle.

To set targets, an Account Admin/Owner can access them via Teams > Targets. Once there, simply click on the 'Create Target' button in top-right of the page and select the Team and Fiscal Year:

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/68819d043496084e4796ea23/20250724172904_1484.png)

And input the following metrics for the 3 sections below:

-   **Estimated Daily Input (hours)**
    
-   **Contribution (%)**
    
-   **Utilization (%)**
    
-   **Planned leave (%)**
    
-   **Unplanned leave (%)**
    
-   **Overtime (%)**
    

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/68819d043496084e4796ea23/20250724172904_6748.png)

Whilst you can use other reports in the app to help you, we also provide guidance in each metric with historical values of either '**Last Quarter**' or '**Previous Year**':

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/68819d043496084e4796ea23/20250724172904_9481.png)

Once you've completed inputting the targets for a given quarter, Bramble will summarize and visualize this in the metric cards and charts to on the right-side of the page including:

-   **Daily Output Per FTE -** average hours of 'Output' for each FTE based on the 'Target Performance' and 'Leave and Overtime'
    
-   **Cost Per Hour Of Output -** how much an hour of Output costs factoring in 'Target Performance' and 'Leave and Overtime'
    
-   **Required FTE -** the amount of FTE to complete the 'Estimated Daily Input hours' factoring in the 'Target Performance' and 'Leave and Overtime'
    
-   **Capacity FTE -** variance between 'Required FTE' and current FTE
    
-   **Labor Cost at Target -** the labor cost based on the 'Required FTE' multiplied by the 'Blended Annual Cost per FTE' in the team's settings
    
-   **Budget Variance -** cost variance based on the 'Capacity FTE'
    

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/68819d043496084e4796ea23/20250724172904_4465.png)