RETAIL - Taras WMS

Visibility is the key

For any retail business it is vital to have full visibility of its workforces’ current and past performance.

Taras Retail has been specifically designed to address the challenges posed by the retail sector such as zero hours contracts, complex shift patterns, multi site working and high levels of HR workload.

Using taras retail your business can quickly and accurately identify issues in areas such as poor timekeeping, unauthorised absence, payroll accuracy and compliance as well as substantially reducing general HR workload.

TARAS For Retail Businesses

For a great retail execution, centering strategy around staff is as much important as it is to center it around customers.

Businesses need to accommodate the ever changing attitudes of employees along with serving changing customer preferences. Hence, they need a workforce strategy for the automated age such that they can ultimately better cater to the customers.

Accurate Attendance Recording

TARAS retail utilises the latest biometric identification methods such as fingerprints and facial recognition to ensure accurate attendance recording.

Accurate time recording benefits both the employee and employer alike by significantly reducing the number of staff queries with regard to payroll and leaves.

Visibility of Off Site Staff

Many retail business have staff working across multiple locations or away from main sites and it is just as important to have full visibility in these situations. TARAS retail utilises the GPS and mobile technologies to enable business to accurately record when and where an off-site employee “clocks in”, thereby ensuring that mobile employees are where they should be when starting work.

Budgeted Operations Made Easy

In order to prevent payroll cost overruns Taras gives managers the ability to set staff schedules and staffing levels according to predetermined weekly hour budgets as well as weekly cost budgets.

To address unforeseen incidents such as bed weather or large sporting events etc. the Taras hierarchical management structure enables senior management to override pre-set budgeted hours on a case by case basis.

Adequate Staffing Level

Maintaining optimum staffing levels can have a huge impact upon both costs and productivity and ensuring that efficient numbers of staff are available when needed can be a time consuming task.

Using the Taras calendar functions managers are able to quickly and accurately match staffing levels to forecasted demand thereby reducing staff surpluses or shortages.

Holiday Manager

It is a widely recognised fact that holiday entitlement or unauthorised absence is one of the largest areas of payroll cost inflation.

As staff numbers within a business increase the task of maintaining accurate holiday and attendance records also becomes increasingly difficult therefore making it vital to have accurate real time tracking of holiday and attendance records. Taras uses the latest biometric technologies such as fingerprint and facial recognition to provide accurate collection of employee attendance data which is then used to provide accurate real time holiday entitlement information for both employee and employer use.