Intelligent Staff Scheduling

Retail staff scheduling that puts store performance first

Tulip’s Intelligent Staff Scheduling solution uses AI to create performance-optimized schedules that save managers time and ensure you get the most from your labor budgets.

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Background

Scheduling doesn’t have to be tedious

For retailers that prioritize customer experience, scheduling the right people at the right time can be make or break for achieving sales targets. Analysing demand and creating schedules that make the most of it takes hours, but even the best store managers are limited by legacy systems, confusing reports, and manual processes. Intelligent Staff Scheduling creates schedules that make the most of every minute of sales time in just a few clicks.

Save store managers hours each week with automated scheduling

Features

• Automated workforce scheduling: Save store managers hours of time each week by automatically creating staff schedules that account for scheduling rules, employee skills and preferences, and local regulations. Most store managers can cut their scheduling time in half with Tulip’s Intelligent Staff Scheduling.
• Drag and drop UI: Let store managers slot themselves into the schedule or make quick adjustments with an intuitive drag and drop UI.
• Labor hour management: Manage adjustments in labor hour allocations in just a few clicks with increases or reductions applied intelligently across the week and clear visibility into how the changes will affect key metrics like sales and transactions per labor hour.

Plug in variables and create a schedule in a single click.

Drag and drop to make changes.

One of the most important things is getting a seamless experience presenting products to the customer on a customer-facing application. Now we have flexibility by not having a fixed till. In terms of the customer journey, it makes it so much smoother as there’s no need to take someone over to a fixed point in a store.
— Richard Cunningham, Group IT Director, Mulberry

With Tulip’s solutions, we are able to use technology to strengthen the relationship between brand and customers, to create more curated offers to fulfill market needs. Tulip represents a further evolutionary moment of our omnichannel strategy because it allows us to follow our customer in a personalized, individual way and in line with the needs of our customers.
— Paolo Zanco, Italy Country Manager, Boggi Milano

This is an important and fundamental partnership for Missoni. We believe Tulip will prove to be an invaluable tool in helping further facilitate Missoni’s continued journey in digital innovations which must always be based on a deeper understanding and engagement of the consumer.
— Livio Proli, CEO, Missoni

Give store leaders tools to get the most out of every labor hour

Features

• Labor reallocation: Labor is most retailer’s biggest expense. Intelligent Staff Scheduling lets regional or district managers compare labor periods and easily adjust or reallocate budgeted hours across regions, districts, or individual stores to maximize performance without adding total resources.
• Performance-focused algorithms: Increase store sales with advanced AI that connects with your traffic counter, POS, and other store data sources to forecast demand and distribute work appropriately to consistently deliver a great customer experience without neglecting operational tasks or expanding the labor budget.

Review labor allocation and performance against targets.

Receive suggestions for how to reallocate to improve performance.

Client Outcomes

Each number shows Tulip’s impact on one retailer’s business

50%

Reduction in time spent scheduling each week.

10%

Increase in sales at a single store after optimizing scheduling.

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