Blog Posts
Having your Forecast and Meeting your Labor Budget too – Part 2: Aligning Store Metrics to Business Goals
In last month’s blog, we discussed the longstanding challenge of aligning “top-down” budgets and “bottom-up” forecasts across your organization, and laid out four steps to bring balance back to your workforce planning process: Align “top-down” and “bottom-up”...
StoreForce User Conference: A Fresh Take on Retail Workforce Management
Are we entering a retail apocalypse or a retail revolution? This was the question that StoreForce Solutions posed to attendees at its first user conference held in Chicago on September 26-27, 2018. The answer, delivered over the two-day conference by StoreForce...
Having your Forecast and Meeting your Labor Budget too — Part 1: Align “Top-Down” and “Bottom-Up” Planning
Finding the right balance between retail staffing and achieving long-term financial targets often leaves business budget planners off-kilter. As expense pressures continue to rise with minimum wage increases and higher customer expectations, retailers are more...
Machine Learning and the Future of WFM Forecasting
Artificial intelligence (AI) or subfields like machine learning (ML) are mentioned in just about every technology-related article these days. More than tech publications are covering the topic. Just last week, major media outlets picked up a story about ...
Migrate to Kronos Workforce Dimensions: Now or Later?
If you’re a Kronos Workforce Central customer, Workforce Dimensions is your future, but that doesn’t mean you have to migrate to Workforce Dimensions today. When Kronos launched Workforce Dimensions last November, it also announced the release of Workforce Central...
Six Steps to keeping the Grinch out of Holiday Hiring
Happy holidays! I know it is only August and most of us in the Northern Hemisphere are baking under summer heat, but if you have not started thinking about the holidays, you will be soon. Holiday hiring has started and will pick up speed quickly over the next few...
