Why an Integrated Labor Management Solution is Vital

There is nothing simple about managing your team. You likely have human capital management processes and data scattered across disjointed systems and databases, which is one reason managing your team can be so time consuming. Each aspect of retail workforce management is complex enough to eat up most of your time and resources, which is exactly why you should be looking for ways to streamline processes and create efficiencies.

What if all the information about your store’s employees could be managed from a single platform? Imagine having everything at your fingertips, including:

• Applicant Tracking – Find the employees you need, when you need them.
• Employee Onboarding – Hire the right people and bring them up to speed quickly.
• Staff Scheduling – Staff your store to keep things running smoothly.
• Employee Attendance – Track when employees are present and the hours they work.
• Payroll Processing – Pay your staff fairly based on attendance data.

Consolidating these capabilities into a single portal increases your efficiency. Not only does it reduce the number of applications you have to use, but it also integrates the data from each area of your labor management system with all the others. This gives you a complete view of your employees and helps you make informed decisions about your labor asset. 

To take this a step further, you can connect your workforce management software to your store’s operational data. Integrating your labor management system with your point-of-sale and back-office systems allows you to make data-driven decisions about how you manage your store and your people. Some of the benefits include:

• Sales Synchronization – Collect actual sales data by department and on the fly. You can compare actual and projected sales data, as well as import historical data to improve the accuracy of your future projections.
• Sales Forecasting – Build staffing schedules based on sales data captured by your POS. The more information you have, the more accurate these forecasts can be. For example, with our TimeForge solutions, you can take factors like weather, holidays, seasonality and time of day into account, letting you project how many employees you’ll need in each department with 85% accuracy. And with advanced sales forecasting, you can predict sales for the hour within 98.73% accuracy.
• Labor Scheduling – Set labor goals and thresholds to keep managers from “breaking the bank.” With TimeForge, you can inform managers about the total number of hours they should shoot for based on sales forecasts. You can even automatically generate staffing schedules based on sales forecasts or build weekly work schedule templates that can be copied from week to week.
• Attendance vs. Scheduled – Track employee attendance and compare attendance reports to store schedules. You can synchronize time clocks across store locations, making it easier to fill schedule gaps with employees who may not typically work at certain locations. And if you use a biometric time clock that stores encrypted fingerprints within the device, you can prevent time theft from “buddy punching” among employees.

Does all this sound too good to be true? With TRUNO’s TimeForge suite of retail human capital management solutions, it’s a reality. And because TimeForge is backed by a team of data scientists, the potential for even greater productivity increases as we continuously add more feature and predictive capabilities.