Have you considered a full hours validation to ensure your work hours are optimally placed? We outline the steps you need in this critical process to complete the journey to an effective schedule for your store!

Booths, premier Northern England supermarket chain, selected Logile store planning and workforce management solutions and engineered labor standards. Booths will implement the software in its retail stores, petrol stations, warehouses and corporate office. This selection represents a key strategic technological milestone for Booths and Logile’s first U.K.-based customer.

Using the concept of sabermetrics as seen in the hit baseball movie Moneyball, it is possible to draw the parallel to engineered standards and performance management within retail. We explore this correlation and how the ever-increasing need to minimize labor costs and increase productivity and output makes these elements critically important for retailers.

In the last edition of the Pathway to Productivity we discussed the value engineered standards can have to an organization…

What is the definition of Standards? Google will tell you it’s “a level of quality or attainment.” Dig a little deeper and Google goes on to say “a required or agreed level of quality…

Scheduling is only as good as the sum of your preparations. Even the best systems and most thoughtful schedule writers are only part of the equation. If the scheduling…