Retail-wide efficiency & WFM challenges

With more than 40 years of experience in more than 10 countries, we are deeply rooted in retail. You can benefit from this. We recognise and understand the challenges and uncertainties that you face. Below is a selection of common challenges.
Drawing on our extensive experience, we can quickly assess your situation and your opportunities for improvement and apply our successful approach to help you achieve results. Are any of the following challenges familiar to you? Then we have various proven effective solutions for you.

Challenges | Efficiency performance: scan and consultation 


  • You are interested in benchmarking your performance in terms of time spent, labour costs, labour deployment and efficiency.
  • You are interested in measuring the hours spent by activity and department. 

  • You are interested in identifying and listing specific opportunities for improving your efficiency. 

  • You are interested in a transparent cost structure and pricing structure for your (new) business models. 

  • You are interested in prioritising the work in your business units in the most effective way. 

  • You are interested in knowing/simulating the impact of innovations and changes in your formula. 

  • You are interested in independent advice and guidance when choosing a WFM tool. 

  • You are interested in obtaining an insight into how your current WFM solution is performing and into how you can improve it.


Drawing on our extensive experience, we can quickly assess your situation and your opportunities for improvement and apply our successful approach to help you achieve results. Are any of the following challenges familiar to you? Then we have various proven effective solutions for you.

Challenges | Process focus: modelling and optimisation

  • You are interested in detailed standards for working hours by activity, department, branch and business unit.

  • You are interested in budgeting your hours based on expected goods and customer flows per branch.
  • You are interested in detailed calculations for innovations designed to improve your efficiency. 

  • You are interested in integrating standards in your own planning or WFM tool. 

  • You are interested in being able to estimate, budget and apply trends to your labour input and working hours. 

  • You are interested predicting and improving your labour deployment for each business unit, branch and department by week, day and interval.
  • You are interested in being able to continuously gear your labour deployment to real-time goods and customer flows.
  • You are interested in getting better performance out of your WFM solution and being able to improve it on an ongoing basis.

  • You are interested in having the tools that will allow you to predict the required labour deployment per branch and department more effectively. 
Drawing on our extensive experience, we can quickly assess your situation and your opportunities for improvement and apply our successful approach to help you achieve results. Are any of the following challenges familiar to you? Then we have various proven effective solutions for you.
Challenges| Operational management: creating and embedding it 

  • You are interested in your organisational objectives to be the same across all the various branches and business units.

  • You are interested in the mindset and inherent motivation within your company to focus on efficiency – day after day.
  • You are interested in your company to be laid out as effectively as possible based on the same comparable standardised processes and KPIs.

  • You are interested in your company to have insight into all the individual factors that influence efficiency and effectiveness.
  • You are interested in your company to detect, identify and implement opportunities for improvement on an ongoing basis.
  • You are interested in your company to work with the WFM solution in the same, uniform way.
  • You are interested in your company to have the right skills, tools and the required efficiency mindset. 

  • You are interested in your company to have insight into where efficiency is lost and to respond appropriately.

  • You are interested in your company to have a clear picture of where improvements really need to be made based on your daily operations.
Curious to find out what our approach can do for you?

Jeroen Douma
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+ 31 (0) 6 414 19 487

Curious to find out what our approach can do for you?

Geert de Vries
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+31 (0) 6 463 63 404