Integrated Labor Planning and Scheduling

A key to controlling cost and increasing profitability is more effective labor utilization. It has a simple but effective starting point; matching labor utilization to sales curves.  When combined with sales and labor data, we have the essential ingredients to determine conversion rates (traffic to sales ratios) and sales productivity (staff to sales ratios). “The Scheduler” provides the platform to convert sales and labor utilization data into a suggested store schedule. The full power of the solution within “The Scheduler” is gained with integration of Retail-1 Traffic. Simplified generation of the suggested schedule is driven by your defined business rules regarding opening, closing, and floor coverage.

The suggested schedule is the beginning point for store managers to finalize the overall staffing requirements and generate the composite schedule for all employees. A master schedule and individual employee schedules can be easily produced. “The Scheduler” provides a unified, easy-to-use graphical capability for labor scheduling.  Easy-to-use “drag and drop” features significantly reduce time required to complete final staffing assignments.  Head Office controls the basic business rules governing labor resources and has visibility to each store’s schedule.