Hospitality

 

Problems

  • Customer Service is the major differentiator in hospitality. How can you ensure customer service is optimized by having the right staff scheduled at the right time?
  • How can you tackle the high levels of staff turnover?
  • Workforce management allows you to grow your business by improvements in productivity, in an environment of regulatory compliance

Solutions

WorkPlace Systems workforce management solutions feature:

 

  • Sophisticated forecasting techniques to predict the requirements for staff for all seasons in the year
  • Bottom up and top down approach to budgeting and forecasting hours and sales
  • Schedules planned down to a quarter hour based on anticipated customer volumes, occupancy rates, takings and even the effect of the weather
  • Absence management, including using a web-based kiosk to allow requests and track responses, and automatically suggest replacement cover
  • Time and the activities captured allowing house/department managers to manage hours, interpret the reason for any discrepancies and to propose improvements
  • Commission payments accurately captured and authorized for payment
  • Advanced web-based reporting capabilities to allow Head and Regional Offices to better understand how their labor costs are being spent

Benefits

  • Save up to 5% of costs by a reallocation of premium payments and a reduction of operating hours
  • Improve customer service by matching customer volumes with customer facing staff
  • Reduce labor turnover by planning schedules around staff's individual working time preferences, re-planning flexible contracts to more closely fit in with the outlet operating model - leading to reduced costs through reduced recruitment and training of new recruits
  • Reduce errors in over-payment and reduce un-authorized absence through better visibility of attended hours
  • Comply with local labor and State laws through rule-based scheduling
  • Reduce the time spent by valuable house/department managers in scheduling creation and attendance management
  • Provide Head Office with near-instantaneous feedback on operations

 

Client References

Rank Leisure | Whitbread