Solution will be used to manage over 120,000 associates
MILWAUKEE, Wis. – RedPrairie Corporation, a consumer driven optimization company, has announced Loblaw Companies Limited has purchased RedPrairie’s Workforce Management (WFM) application for its stores across Canada. The system will manage over 120,000 colleagues.
Loblaw is Canada’s largest food distributor, and a leading provider of general merchandise products, drugstore and financial products and services.
“RedPrairie has experience in the grocery industry,” says Catherine Booth, Senior Vice President, Information Technology, Loblaw Companies Limited. “We needed a proven solution to meet our requirements, while providing an easier tool for our managers and colleagues.”
The RedPrairie WFM solution offers increased productivity and visibility into workforce operations, directing time and attendance, business forecasting, workforce demand planning, automated optimized scheduling, staff self-service, dashboards with configurable alerts, and computer-based training.
“RedPrairie has long recognized the complexities associated with reconciling payroll compliance and efficient workforce management,” says RedPrairie CEO Mike Mayoras, “Partnering with a leading Canadian grocer demonstrates our ability to meet that challenge.”
About Loblaw Companies Limited
Loblaw Companies Limited (TSX: L) is Canada’s largest food distributor and a leading provider of general merchandise products, drugstore and financial products and services. Loblaw is also one of the largest private sector employers in Canada, with over 140,000 full-time and part-time employees executing its business strategy in more than 1,000 corporate and franchised stores from coast to coast. Loblaw is a subsidiary of George Weston Limited (TSX: WN). For further information about Loblaw please contact: Inge van den Berg, Vice President, Public Affairs & Investor Relations, 905-459-2500 Investors – investor@loblaw.ca ; Media – pr@loblaw.ca
About RedPrairie Corporation
RedPrairie is a world leading consumer driven optimization 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.
RedPrairie’s E2e™ solutions synchronize people and products throughout the customer buying cycle to ensure goods reach the right place at the right time. At the point of sale, this means consumers have access to desired products and that the store is staffed with the right people to help them make their purchases. In the production cycle, it means suppliers and manufacturers time and synchronize shipments and production based on demand signals from the retailer. And in the back room of the store, it means having the least amount of inventory, solving the “last yard” problem of the retail supply chain.
With 20 global service sites and standard service methods that have been validated over the last 30 years, RedPrairie provides unparalleled service and support. For additional information, call 1.877.733.7724, or access http://www.RedPrairie.com.
