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Integrated Workforce Management Solutions: Improving Customer Service and Profitability

In retail, competitive differentiation has never been more difficult. Consumers have an unprecedented number of choices - more products are available through more channels, often twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Increasingly, retailers are turning to service and the shopping experience to attract and retain customers. However, in...

Tags: Customer Service, Workforce Management, RedPrairie, Retail Company, Labor Management, Retail, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-04-16

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Reducing Distribution Costs: The Value of RedPrairie's Productivity Management Solution - Customer Survey

For many companies, distribution costs as a percentage of sales continue to rise. Labor costs generally represent the greatest single component of distribution costs, ranging from 40 percent to as much as 70 percent of the total. In this context, ARC conducted a user survey of RedPrairie's labor Productivity Management...

Tags: RedPrairie, Customer Survey, ARC Advisory Group, Distribution Cost, Labor Relations, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Human Resources, Marketing, Sales

White papers 2003-03-01

True Labor Cost 1.01 (Windows)

Knowing the true cost of labor is critical to managing your business. You must know what labor really costs you to best determine how to price your products and services. The largest determining factor in business profits is the management of labor costs. Most business owners know the cost of...

Tags: Cost, Microsoft Windows, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Management

Software downloads 2005-11-08

Optimizing Infrastructure: The Relationship Between IT Labor Costs and Best Practices for Systems Management Server

This paper examines the relationship between IT labor costs and best practices for Microsoft Systems Management Server SMS. SMS is a server-based management software product for change and configuration management of PCs. SMS is designed to reduce labor costs through automation by eliminating the need to visit individual PCs to...

Tags: Software, Information Technology, Server, SMS, Best Practice, Microsoft Systems Management Server, International Data Group, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Tools & Techniques, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Management

White papers 2007-01-01

PrevGes (Spanish) 2 (Windows)

Program for management of labor risks, PrevGes, a complete application to administer the information of labor risks of a company. Compound of the connected modules agenda, insole staff, consultation, risk evaluation, incidents, statistics, preventive maintenance, management of documentation of a subcontract, management of dangerous products and image.

Tags: Management, Club ReM, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-10-24

Labor Coach 3.3 (Mobile)

The labor coach is designed to help your labor. You have spent 9 months doing the best for your baby -- don't stop now. With the labor coach, you can accurately and easily time your contractions so you can give precise information to your birth attendant. You can get graphical...

Tags: Mobile, Coach, Labor Coach, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2005-06-02

Estimator 2.0 (Windows)

Estimation, Rate Analysis and Project Management Software for architects, builders, engineers and construction companies. With Estimator you can prepare detailed, abstract, material and labor estimates of residential and commercial buildings. You can also prepare tenders, measurement book, cost abstract, labor and contractor's bill, purchase order and other site management documents....

Tags: Site Management, Microsoft Windows, Softlogic Innovations

Software downloads 2008-12-08

Labor Day 1.1 (Mac)

Labor Day is a contraction & pregnancy labor monitoring software for Mac OS X. Labor Day can time not only each individual contraction, but it can figure out how much time has elapsed between contractions. It presents each contraction in a nice table, which can then be e-mailed or viewed...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Contraction, Tools & Techniques, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2004-02-10

Convenience Retailer Reduces Labor Management Costs and Improves Customer Experience

QuikTrip Corporation, with more than 450 owner/operated convenience stores and travel centers, is decorated with several quality-focused awards, including being on the list of Fortune magazine's 100 best employers. Each store operates as its own profit center, and QuikTrip rewards success with bonuses and internal advancement based on individual and...

Tags: Performance, Cost Reduction, Customer Experience, Management, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies

Contactual Helps Labor Ready Respond Around the Clock, Around the World

The international staffing company Labor Ready had 94 different answering services—each with varying levels of customer service and cost—when related business problems prompted its search for a central call center solution. Chief among the company's key requirements for its new call center was a Web-based system that would: Be...

Tags: Contactual Inc., Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies

Labor Superior Court Achieves More Robustness With Oracle

The Labor Superior Court of Brazil evaluates employment issues and labor relations action in accordance with Brazilian Labor Laws. The institution wanted to provide data integration between the Labor Superior Court and its 24 regional labor courts and standardize legacy database platforms in those courts. They wanted to develop an...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Labor Relations, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Case studies

Sodexho: Reducing Time, Labor & Energy Costs

Sodexho, provider of catering and support services, uses the HP BladeSystem with HP services and management tools to consolidate, reduce power & cooling costs, as well as save time and labor.

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., It Services

Webcasts 2007-01-01

RedPrairie Case Study: UTi

UTi is a broad-based, supply chain company offering a wide range of global integrated logistics to their worldwide customer base. UTi's Integrated Logistics team provides end-to-end supply chain solutions through dedicated and public warehouses, with a proven track record of reducing customer costs. With labor expense representing 65-70 percent of...

Tags: RedPrairie, UTi, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Change Management, Supply Chain, Enterprise Software, Software, Tools & Techniques, Management, Business Operations

Case studies 2006-12-06

Data Domain Case Study: Labor Ready

Labor Ready is an international provider of temporary employees for manual labor, light industrial and skilled trades. Backups and restores were slow and often failed. The company needed a more cost-effective, reliable disk-based solution that would enable it to back up at least two weeks worth of data and easily...

Tags: Data Domain, Pricing, Backups, Marketing Research, Marketing

Case studies

Managing the Productivity and Costs of the Employee Job Life Cycle

Implementing Workforce Scheduling & Management may increase your labor productivity 5% to 10%. Creating a business process for Quality Monitoring may increase productivity 5% - 8% with increases in customer satisfaction. However, if you have high employee turnover and an extensive learning curve, creating a management environment to increase employee...

Tags: Job, Productivity, Primary Matters, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Human Resources

White papers 2004-10-01

Mipsis Maintenance Management Software 3.6 (Windows)

Mipsis CMMS is an easy, effective, and affordable computerized maintenance management software used for preventive maintenance, work order management, inventory, predictive maintenance, asset tracking, labor, and maintenance requests. Version 3.6 includes various performance enhancements.

Tags: Maintenance, Mipsis Software, Mipsis CMMS, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Asset Management, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations

Software downloads 2008-08-12

TBC de Mexico Improves Inventory Visibility and Control, Reducing Labor Costs Up to 15%

TBC de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. is a leading tire distributor and importer. The company wanted to implement a management system to support the company's rapid growth and provide inventory system to its 26 points of sale. The challenge was to improve financial processes for efficient inventory management and provide...

Tags: Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Inventory Management, Mexico, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies

Microsoft Dynamics Webcast: Take the Guesswork Out of Complex Labor and Time Collection With Microsoft Dynamics SL (Level 100)

The presenter of this webcast discusses how the Microsoft Dynamics SL solution can help a person to calculate true labor costs, meet time-sensitive government reporting requirements, provide flexible deductions and benefits, and, most importantly, pay the employees accurately and on-time. This webcast provides insight into how to take control of...

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Webcast, Labor, Microsoft Corp.

Webcasts

Sanity check: The IT labor shortage is real and offshoring is overblown

IT departments are planning to increase offshore outsourcing in 2009, after two years of declines. Nevertheless, a new survey shows offshoring remains a very small portion of IT budgets and U.S. IT leaders say they're still grappling with an IT labor shortage. by Jason Hiner

Tags: Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Enabling Automated IT Compliance

Enterprises attempting to achieve compliance manually are spending 5 times more than those using automated systems, with over 40% of compliance costs attributed to labor alone. The Opsware Automation Suite is used by over 250 of the world's largest companies, service providers and government agencies to automate management of all...

Tags: Information Technology, Compliance, Opsware Inc., Opsware Automation Suite

Webcasts