NEW YORK, Jan. 16, 2006 - Retailers continue to turn to Kronos ® Incorporated (Nasdaq: KRON) more than any other vendor in order to achieve a competitive advantage by optimizing their largest controllable expense and most strategic asset - their employee workforce. In fact, when it comes to workforce management at store level, retailers representing more than 50,000 stores and more than 1.8 million employees around the world depend on Kronos for centralized enterprise solutions.
"The retail industry is a strategic focus for Kronos and we are committed to providing retailers from all segments of the industry with the end-to-end workforce management solutions they need to ensure consistent store execution while balancing the needs of their business, customers, and employees," said John Anderson, director of retail marketing at Kronos. "We have earned our leadership by continually delivering value and enabling our customers to improve store productivity and increase organizational visibility and control. Our enterprise retail customers rely on Kronos for innovative workforce management solutions that are rapidly deployable, highly scalable and easy to use."
Kronos' most recent success comes from the availability of its Kronos for Retail solution. According to AMR Research in its Oct. 28, 2005 alert, Kronos Looks to Demand-Driven Workforce Management for Growth, "Kronos released its optimized scheduling functionality within the Kronos for Retail suite in the fall of 2004, and has closed more deals in the past year than any competitor."
Kronos for Retail is a complete suite of solutions that enable retailers to utilize a Demand-Driven Workforce Management approach by optimizing deployment of their workforce to meet all sources of demand on store operations - corporate, production, customer, and employee. Retailers are taking advantage of the budgeting, forecasting, scheduling, time and labor, business intelligence, and absence management solutions that Kronos offers. These solutions also enable retailers to centralize and standardize their business processes leading to increased efficiency and a more consistent in-store customer experience.
Another example of Kronos' leadership is its unprecedented global success. In addition to U.S.-based retailers such as Hannaford Bros. Co., FedEx Kinko's, and Payless ShoeSource, international retailers are using Kronos for Retail to improve productivity and control labor costs. These international retailers include AAFES, Best Buy Canada, Grupo Gigante, IKEA U.K., and Pick ´n Pay.
"The Kronos for Retail solution has successfully provided AAFES with increased visibility and control at all levels of our organization," said Marilyn Iverson, Chief Operating Officer, Army & Air Force Exchange Service.
Kronos made this announcement from the National Retail Federation's (NRF) 95th Annual Convention & Expo being held in New York from Jan. 15-18. Kronos is exhibiting in
Kronos Incorporated is the most trusted name in workforce management. Kronos helps organizations staff, develop, deploy, track, and reward their workforce, resulting in reduced costs, increased productivity, better decision-making, improved employee satisfaction, and alignment with organizational objectives. More than 20 million people use a Kronos solution every day. Learn more about Kronos' high-impact enterprise solutions at www.kronos.com.