Kronos for Retail

Balance the needs of your business, customers, and employees

Retail success depends on your ability to meet demand. Customers are demanding more knowledgeable help and faster check-out. Employees are demanding a better work/life balance. And the Head-office is demanding higher sales, lower costs, and more consistent store execution.

Your store managers need to be able to anticipate the many types of demand that influence store performance. And they need the tools to accurately plan the workforce to meet these demands without sacrificing customer service or exceeding the budget. Managers should not spend all their time manipulating schedules and managing timesheets and attendance — they should be on the sales floor.

With Kronos for Retail, you can deploy a workforce that is driven by demand, flexible to your business needs, and optimised for maximum performance. This solution enables you to:

Lower operating costs across all your stores
Improve customer service and increase revenue
Respond to work/life balance needs, increase employee satisfaction, and reduce turnover

Solving real-world problems in retail

Kronos for Retail employs our demand-driven workforce management strategy to help you anticipate the many demands that impact your workforce, from customer volume to employee availability. You get complete visibility into the workforce, which helps you make better decisions regarding coverage, budgets, legislative compliance, employee preferences, and more.

With Kronos for Retail you can:

Deliver superior customer service by forecasting business needs, optimising schedules, and deploying a more dynamic workforce to put the right people in the right place at the right time
Take control of employee absences and manage holidays, lieu and sickness more efficiently, typically saving more than 30 percent of unscheduled absence¹
Improve productivity by making real-time adjustments to forecasts, employee availability, and more
Reduce employee turnover by engaging employees in a more flexible scheduling process
Increase visibility into store operations and execute consistently across all your stores
Increase payroll accuracy by automating time and attendance to payroll processes
Independent studies suggests average savings of 3.5 percent of annual payroll cost per year²

With three decades of experience, no one understands the workforce better than Kronos. Ours is a complete system that will fit your environment and can earn you a faster return on your investment than most competitive offerings.

Learn more about Kronos' Workforce Central® suite and our solutions for time and labour, absence management, and advanced scheduling.

¹	"Absence Management: A Survey of Policy and Practice," CIPD Annual Survey Report, 2005.
²	"ROI Evaluation Report: Workforce Timekeeper," Nucleus Research, 2002 (sponsored by Kronos).