With unpredictable consumer demand and increasing competition for retail labor, retailers need help staffing their stores effectively. By integrating Blue Yonder’s advanced forecasting and scheduling capabilities with Trax Flexforce, a 1.4 million-strong, on-demand retail workforce, Dynamic Workforce Management intelligently connects available employees to open shifts in real-time. You can now manage cross-channel demand surges without overworking permanent staff to keep shelves full, improve employee engagement and increase customer satisfaction.
Blue Yonder creates an optimized schedule and fills it with retailer’s existing workforce
Open and unfilled shifts are mapped to skilled, on-demand Flexforce workers
Our real-time reporting platform provides key insights and transparency on every shift
Blue Yonder’s advanced scheduling optimization engine handles unique work rule permutations to create optimal, compliant schedules for each location in a single instance of the system.
Easy-to-set-up scheduling engine helps you define rules based on standard timeframes such as day, week, month or intra-day, and also change rules by country and location to keep up with dynamic labor laws.
Ensure consistent and superior service across all of your stores with cross-location scheduling. For example, one drugstore chain uses this feature to schedule their pharmacists across multiple stores to ensure great service during their peak hours.
Trax Flexforce has more than 1.4M experienced retail representatives across the U.S. ready to be deployed today for your in-store needs. With 99.2% of all U.S. retailers covered by Trax Flexforce you can extend your coverage in an uncompromised way covering all channels, small format stores and rural areas.
Proprietary matching algorithms process in-store experience, location, workload and dozens of factors to identify the right person with the right skills for the right merchandising job.
Whether you’re looking to make merchandising progressively smarter or want fast support for online order surges, the elasticity of our team means you can solve for your specific issues efficiently.
Cost-effective solution to manage high employee turnover and rising training costs
1.4M skilled workers available nationwide for any merchandizing and fulfilment activity
Every store visit is tracked, QA checked and scored using nearly 50 metrics to ensure the right job is done — every time