Building and home improvement retail group Travis Perkins hopes to cut costs and boost productivity with implementation of a new workforce management system for its 15,000 UK staff. The company, which has more than 800 Travis Perkins outlets and 178 Wickes stores, has signed a contract with WorkPlace Systems for the use of the supplier’s Labour Budgeting, Forecasting, Scheduling, and Time & Attendance software modules. WorkPlace will also develop a specific set of labour standards for Wickes and Travis Perkins, to create an operating model designed to improve the accuracy of labour budgets and forecasts. Receive the Personnel Today Direct e-newsletter every Wednesday Brian Baker, north divisional director for Wickes, who is sponsoring the project, said: “Wickes views the implementation of a workforce management system as one of the best ways to drive operational costs reduction, improved store productivity and customer service.”
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