Business Planning and Staff Recruitment & Retention

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Labour Budgeting employs a bottom-up approach to calculating medium and long-term wage budgets. Budget sales and other key business drivers are used as the basis for generating weekly workload demand taking into account the corporate Operating Model and individual Store Profiles. Average pay rates and budget factors are applied to the demand to create budget hours and costs by department, store, region or company for any time period chosen - generally yearly or quarterly. The Budget Wizard can be used to fine-tune the budget quickly and with minimum effort.

The Commission Calculation and Reporting module provides facilities to calculate incremental pay awards to employees based on actual sales made with multiple schemes available for employees or groups of employees. Commission is calculated as a pay value based on units sold or sales value per product group or for individual products sold and includes threshold-based commission rules and commission advance/draw schemes. Once defined, these schemes are used to calculate and report individual pay awards based on unit sales or value recorded through EPoS takings and to produce a payroll interface file of commission amounts.

Peak Period Recruitment Scheduling is a tactical rostering module used to generate peak period recruitment plans particularly for the Christmas period. The module utilises the Forecast Workload Demand based on peak period business levels and identifies the shortfall between existing labour and peak demand by day and time of day. The shortfall is converted into daily shifts and weekly rosters providing an optimised recruitment plan for part-time or full-time temporary staff.