Payroll Solutions helps sportings goods business save with time and attendance compliance, significantly simplified scheduling, and mobile management.
Northwest Outfitters is a small retail chain tackling the obstacles of selling in the competitive outdoor sports sector. Managing a specialized labor force across 5 locations became their focus as an opportunity to considerably reduce costs and gain a competitive advantage.
Workforce Management is a key sore spot for retail businesses with multiple departments. Northwest Outfitters’ primary challenge is keeping unique departments staffed with the right people while reducing costs with viable cross-department coverage. They also wanted to address one of their largest budget problems; unexpected overtime.
Except for a small team of supervisors, all sales associates are part time. When there is a staffing crunch, it can be nearly impossible to keep part-timers from working forty hours or more. Holiday breaks and year-end staffing has been slinging scheduling complications and compliance pressure with the burden of tracking and reporting.
Workforce Management Suite Integration Creates Savings
With TimeSimplicity, the scheduling solution in Workforce Management Suite, department managers created standard schedule templates for busy and slow sales periods, which vary from department to department. With the standard schedule in place, supervisors can drag and drop to adapt to changing conditions. This has been an essential time saver for managers, and with pre-defined alerts, has provided a dramatic decline in unexpected overtime.
SOLUTION — Workforce Management Suite
- TimeSimplicity for expedited scheduling and mobile coordination.
- TimeWorksPlus for integrated time and attendance tracking.
- Mobile access provides employee access and management control.
Employee Empowerment
Before Workforce Management Suite implementation, team members continuously contacted managers about shift revisions, time card foul-ups, and PTO accruals. With Employee Self Service (ESS), employees clock in/out from their mobile device, handle their own time cards, submit time off requests, and monitor accruals without having to reach out to a manager. With the intuitiveness of PunchLogic, time card mistakes are no longer a significant problem.
Uncomplicated Administration
When employees manage shift changes, all supervisors have to do is approve them on the Virtual Trade Board. TimeSimplicity even notifies the employees affected when a shift change is approved! With job codes and employee groups, employees with the appropriate skills are scheduled in the corresponding departments. This helps maintain superb customer service for which Northwest is known.
No More Compliance Headaches
With customized overtime alerts, managers are notified when part-time employees are approaching full-time hours, and full-timers are approaching overtime. They don’t need to be continually monitoring time cards to keep employees working within the authorized hours. In the case of a DOL audit, reports can be produced instantly from attendance data that was automatically captured and recorded.
Northwest Outfitters is benefitting from reduced labor amounts, improved scheduling, automated compliance tools, and associates who are much happier with their jobs.
UPGRADE TODAY
Payroll Solutions offers Workforce Management Suite, the powerful, fully-integrated Workforce Management Suite that makes it easy to optimize the performance of your managers, employees, and company.
Workforce Management Suite includes TimeWorksPlus, TimeSimplicity, and TimeWorks Mobile. Workforce Management Suite is developed for busy employers like you who need to streamline scheduling, automate time and attendance tracking, maintain regulatory compliance, and decrease labor costs.
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We can get you up and running with Workforce Management Suite in minutes. Contact us today to set up a demo.
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