The Connected Workforce
An Informed, Engaged and Unified Retail Workforce
Today's Store Associates
The role of the store continues to evolve and an efficient, flexible and motivated workforce is a must. The modern associate demands to be empowered with digital tools to manage their flexible lifestyle, to see and swap shifts, review schedules and make changes from wherever they are. This in turn drives higher levels of employee engagement, retention, and productivity. Blue Yonder’s workforce management capabilities drive operational excellence and reduce average labour spend by 5%, while unleashing your employees to become an enduring competitive advantage.
Scale Up and Reduce Average Labour Spend by 5% with Blue Yonder
Read about the real results from a global retailer using Blue Yonder WFM for compliance risk management, labor planning, and payroll management for more than 40,000 employees across more than 700 locations in more than 50 countries in just 6 months.
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Connected Employee Experience
Retailers need to adjust their practices and support systems to enable the workforce to stay connected and informed through the business to the shop floor, to adjust to retail peaks and shifts and the ongoing challenges. The modern workforce expects flexible and automated scheduling whilst enabling you to stay in control of your short- and long-term labour requirements and costs.
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Transforming Workforce Management
The new workforce management technology is driven by visibility to an array of demands signals on a platform of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). It contains all the tools to manage, motivate, engage and retain today’s workforce.
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Unify Your Store Colleagues’ Experience with Microsoft Teams integrated with Blue Yonder Luminate Workforce Management
Blue Yonder’s workforce management capabilities drive operational excellence and the overall performance of the business, unleashing your employees to become an enduring competitive advantage. Additionally, Nucleus Research has recently concluded that Blue Yonder WFM can save retailers over 5% of their labour costs. Leveraging Microsoft Azure and by opening up connectivity to Teams, store employees can swap shifts, make time off requests and more making it easy for everyone across your organisation to collaborate on a single platform
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Marks & Spencer Enables its Workforce with Blue Yonder Workforce Management and Microsoft Teams
Marks & Spencer has accelerated their digital-first strategy to better enable their workforce. By utilizing Blue Yonder’s Workforce Management and Microsoft Teams, M&S is providing a simplified digital experience to their frontline workers so they can focus on delivering an exceptional customer experience. Learn more with Marks & Spencer's Scott Townend, Microsoft's Aarthi Kumar, and Blue Yonder's Julie Hunt.
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Improving Workforce Productivity and Retention at Associated Food Stores
Associated Food Stores (AFS) is a cooperatively owned wholesale distributor headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. AFS implemented Blue Yonder’s workforce management capabilities which enable them to automatically schedule labour according to actual demand and provided associates with flexible, self-service scheduling, improving associate satisfaction while saving significant labour costs.
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Innovations in Workforce Management at Harris Teeter
From their first grocery store in 1960 through to today and beyond, Harris Teeter’s secret sauce is innovation. Whether it’s opening the first fully air-conditioned grocery store in North Carolina, providing innovative wine & beer bars or pursuing Uber-like mobile shift postings, innovation is a core culture at Harris Teeter. They wanted the same level of innovation from their workforce management solution.
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