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Newsletter 42
Tesco selects RedPrairie’s Enterprise Workforce Management Solution for managing its global store saff of 350,000 employees
World-leading international retailer will implement RedPrairie solution to optimise staff productivity across 13 countries RedPrairie Corporation, a world leading consumer driven optimisation company, has announced that Tesco, one of the world's leading international retailers, will implement RedPrairie’s Workforce Management application at its retail stores. The RedPrairie solution will enable Tesco to deliver greater customer service by aligning customer traffic with employee scheduling. “We selected RedPrairie because they provide the best scheduling solution that can operate across Tesco’s different formats,” said Dave Briggs, programme panager for Tesco. “By helping ensure that we always have people on hand to assist shopper, it supports our constant effort to improve customer experience. Ultimately, it will improve our business by increasing store productivity, and supporting revenue growth.” Martin Hiscox, president and managing director international, RedPrairie, said: “We are delighted to deepen our relationship with Tesco by helping to optimise their store operations. It is highly satisfying to receive further recognition of the strength of our solutions from such a well-respected company and we look forward to continued success together.” 
RedPrairie is a leading provider of retail operations management systems. Its workforce management solution includes: time and attendance, business forecasting, workforce demand planning, automated optimised scheduling, staff self-service, dashboards with configurable alerts, and computer based training. All of the features are displayed in an intuitive, user friendly interface. RedPrairie also provides supply chain execution systems and counts many of the worlds leading retailers, including Tesco, as customers. Supply chain solutions include warehouse management, workforce management, duty management, transportation management, and fleet management. Founded in 1924, Tesco is the largest British retailer by both global sales and domestic market share, with profits also exceeding £2 billion worldwide. Tesco now controls just over 30 per cent of the grocery market in the UK. Its target by March 2008 was to have a store in every postcode of the United Kingdom. RedPrairie is a world-leading consumer driven optimisation company. Built on an advanced service oriented architecture (SOA) developed over the past 15 years, the RedPrairie integrated suite of solutions offers on-demand capabilities to over 32,000 sites worldwide for many of the world’s largest companies.
Story contributed by RedPrairie
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