Store Labor

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Store Labor

Keep customers satisfied and your business on track: Optimize store staffing by aligning labor with your supply chain to harmonize customer needs and employee preferences, all while maintaining cost efficiency.

Overview

Store Labor Planning and Scheduling

Forecast shopper demand accurately, retain your employees and auto-generate schedules that improve manager efficiency.
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Increase in Employee Engagement

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Reduction in Labor Violations

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Reduction in Administration Costs

Features & Capabilities

Labor Management for the Modern Store Workforce

Strategic workforce planning

Align 12-month labor forecasts and external factors with budgets to identify site staffing needs using what-if analysis and AI-driven scheduling to optimize resources, reduce turnover, and maintain minimum staffing levels.
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Accurate forecasting

Improve labor scheduling with accurate demand forecasting, aligning labor availability with demand and assessing the impact of unforeseen events on profitability.
Accurate forecasting

Advanced Scheduling

Assign shifts based on skills, availability and ranked preferences while ensuring service levels are met and provide flexibility for workers to choose and adjust shifts as necessary.
Advanced scheduling

Empower employees with self-service

Enable employees to manage their schedules and time off via mobile devices, facilitating real-time shift posting, swapping, and picking up, with automatic alerting to management for timely coverage optimization.
Empower employees with self service

Simplified labor compliance

Automate compliance with complex local labor laws and global regulations, ensuring managers adhere to policies to efficiently reduce friction in the workforce.
Simplified labor compliance

Reliable time and attendance tracking

Enable employees to clock in via various devices, automate approvals to streamline manager reviews, and track time-off, attendance, and pay adjustments efficiently.
Reliable time and attendance tracking

Key Benefits

Smarter Scheduling for Modern Store Labor

Empowering the workforce

Increase employee engagement with self-service tools and more scheduling flexibility. Optimize workforce productivity and reduce costs with closer alignment between labor availability and demand.
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Serve All Customers Equally

Meet customers however they shop with more efficient AI-driven forecasting, incorporating in-store and digital traffic.
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Align Labor with your Supply Chain

Make smarter labor decisions using all of the information at your disposal by injecting optimized data from throughout the supply chain to improve labor allocation.
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Manage more efficiently

Get your motivator-in-chief out from behind their desk and back helping employees and customers with intelligent scheduling, easier approvals, and attendance tracking.
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Work smarter with Blue Yonder

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Satisfied Employees and Managers
Respect employee preferences and give them self-service tools while easing the burden on managers so they can work where they’re needed.

Elevated Customer Experience
Improve both digital and in-store experiences with more accurate forecasting and more engaged employees.

Create End-to-End Synergy
Use the full power of end-to-end supply chain visibility to make better plans that are executed right the first time, every time.

Case Studies

Success stories in Store Labor

    • Innovations in Workforce Management at Harris Teeter
      Innovations in Workforce Management at Harris Teeter

      From their first grocery store in 1960 through to today and beyond, Harris Teeter’s secret sauce is innovation. Whether it’s opening the first fully air-conditioned grocery store in North Carolina, providing innovative wine & beer bars or pursuing Uber-like mobile shift postings, innovation is a core culture at Harris Teeter. They wanted the same level of innovation from their workforce management solution. Learn how they achieved it with Blue Yonder.

    • Mitchells and Butlers Optimizes Its Workforce Management With Blue Yonder
      Mitchells and Butlers Optimizes Its Workforce Management With Blue Yonder

      Mitchells & Butlers plc is one of the largest operators of restaurants, pubs and bars throughout the United Kingdom, including much loved names like Miller & Carter, Harvester, Toby Carvery and more. In this case study, learn how they used Blue Yonder's Workforce Management and Store Execution solutions to: Improve labor forecast, delivering a significant positive financial impact, avoid lost revenue opportunities from understaffing, and avoid unnecessary expense from overcommitting.

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