Enhance & speed up your administrative efforts with Retail Workforce Management

Salary calculations, reporting, vacation management and upkeep of personnel information are regular and necessary administrative tasks for organisations across all industries. What’s more, many of these tasks are compliance-driven and executing them manually can be a long and cumbersome undertaking.

When it comes to the retail industry, there exists the extra challenge of planning for and managing part-time and seasonal employees, dealing with high employee turnover, all the while trying to keep staff costs low.

Advanced retail workforce management solutions, like SameSystem, provide automatic and effective staff scheduling, absence overviews and allow for real-time adjustments to help stores run efficiently. Having a highly automated process not only provides store and regional managers with the data required to make decisions but it also dramatically saves time spent on administration.

Having a solution that can automate many of these important tasks is highly beneficial for everyone involved in the administrative tasks, including those directly dealing with scheduling and reporting - the store managers. A store manager’s primary concern should be to reach their turnover goal, not continuously checking to see if the right staff is scheduled to work at the busiest times or being overwhelmed with gathering reports or processing salary information to be sent to headquarters. Continuing with the manual organization of reports, salaries and input of employee information shouldn’t be the ideal scenario for any retail business, as a store manager can easily streamline all these administrative processes with the right solution.

Removing this administrative work allows for a store manager to place the majority of their focus on what really matters - the development of the store and its staff.

For other staff members, it makes HR related tasks, such as asking for holiday or requesting absence, simple. Not only is requesting absence or accepting an open shift - from let’s say, their mobile - user-friendly, it also speeds up the scheduling for store managers as it’s done in real time.

Furthermore, all important contracts, documents and templates are kept organized and easily accessible from a single space, making human error a thing of the past. And as many administrative concerns are highly regulated and require to be reported to governments, with even the slightest of errors potentially resulting in legal issues or financial losses, this is a considerable gain.

The result? Time saved, costs cut, easy management of staff and happier employees.

Having a retail workforce management solution that automates salary calculations, reporting and contract processing as well as improving an organization’s communication to employees ultimately allows for more time to be allocated to making improvements to overall productivity.

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