Right place right time for Kronos

Somerfield is selecting Kronos for Retail to optimise the deployment of 50,000 colleagues across 1,100 Somerfield stores of all formats around the UK

The implementation of Kronos for Retail will enable an integrated approach to workforce management including budgeting, forecasting, scheduling and attendance.

The forecasting and scheduling capabilities of the solution enables Somerfield to manage employee schedules by accurately matching staffing requirements to customer demand. Somerfield hopes Kronos for Retailer will increase productivity while improving customer and employee satisfaction.

“Somerfield requires a fully automated workforce management solution to support our mission of providing the best possible customer service in the most cost effective way possible,” says Adrian Pearce, Somerfield’s head of simplification.

Kronos for Retail allows Somerfield to create the optimal employee schedules based on store-specific data including historical business trends and customer traffic.
These optimised schedules, based on Somerfield’s labour requirement in 15-minute intervals, mean that staff are always in the right place at the right time.

The system is designed to integrate with the retailer’s existing SAP HR and Payroll system and is set to be rolled out across all retail stores during 2007.