Given that you now have a good foundation in the terms and process steps from forecasting to demand planning to staff planning to scheduling, it’s a good time to discuss different types of scheduling…
A question is asked to two different professional peer groups: Store Managers and Corporate Senior Leaders: “What is your main day to day focus?” From senior leadership you would most likely hear…
Shopping can be either a joyful experience or a chore, depending on your experience at whichever retail establishment you frequent. When looking at components of a great shopping experience…
In this edition of Scheduling Insights, we will be building on our discussion of scheduling terms. We have outlined the process as a series of steps, as Forecasting, Demand Planning, Staff Planning and Scheduling…
If you are running the Labor Management program for a retail organization, and if you haven’t been disheartened by your workforce management (WFM) provider’s system limitations in its current desktop form…
It’s early morning and your store has just opened its doors. There are five total employees in the store, a manager and four associates. Two associates are in the backroom processing product from the previous day’s delivery…
Having led labor management efforts in both large and small organizations helps inform my perspective working for Logile. We see ourselves as a strategic partner to our clients and we are proud of…
No one should be thinking that mobile workforce management (WFM) capabilities are bleeding edge anymore. In fact, the capabilities are so known that it may no longer be leading edge technology…
Virtual Assistants like Alexa, Siri, Cortana, Assistant, etc., are designed to help people perform day-to-day tasks quickly, but do they perform tasks intelligently? How effectively do they use Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies?…
Visual management is one of the Lean techniques designed so that any person entering a workplace, even those who are unfamiliar with the detail of the processes, can rapidly see what is going on understand it…