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AMERICAN APPAREL GOES LIVE ON INFOR WFM A


merican Apparel, the vertically integrated manufacturer, distributor and retailer, has implemented Infor


Workbrain to manage global time and attendance, labour forecasting and scheduling optimisation.


The clothing company needed a fl exible


and scalable workforce management (WFM) tool that could be deployed across its global operations, allowing the company to better manage its global workforce with integrated time and attendance and store labour scheduling.


It selected and implemented the


company’s Workbrain solution to manage its global workforce, including its 285 retail stores in 20 countries.


By using its existing time-clock hardware,


American Apparel was able to implement the Infor Workbrain Time and Attendance solution in just 15 weeks. Workbrain’s Labour Forecasting and Scheduling Optimisation is also helping American Apparel fi nd the “best fi t” schedule


DELOITTE BETS ON RETAIL TABLETS


Management consultancy, Deloitte has predicted retail and manufacturing industries will test tablet PC use for their employees during the coming year. It forecast that businesses will purchase more than a quarter of all tablet computers


in 2011, driven in part by the consumerisation of corporate technology as mobile PC alternatives. Jolyon Barker, global lead for Deloitte’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications


Industry, commented: “We predict companies in the retail, healthcare and manufacturing sectors will buy more than 10 million tablets for their staff to take advantage of the ease of use and longer battery life of these devices.” It said large software vendors are combining with desktop virtualisation providers to create secure enterprise-grade applications that can be rapidly deployed into businesses’ IT environments. But it warned the devices may not be particularly robust and price could also be an issue, where the cost of developing bespoke applications and securing the devices could also be a hurdle.


to ensure that the right employees, with the right skills, are scheduled at the right time to meet customer demand.


“Our ability to implement global time and attendance in just 15 weeks is truly a testament to the fl exibility and extendibility


of the Workbrain application,” said Stacey Shulman, American Apparel technology vice president. “Infor Workbrain’s mathematical – rather than heuristic – approach to solving our scheduling challenges was a key factor in our decision to move forward.”


JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011 RETAIL TECHNOLOGY


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