Staff scheduling

Short-time work in retail – Made significantly easier with the new SEAK update. 1003 668 Workforce Management im Handel | SEAK Software GmbH
Short-time work in retail – Made significantly easier with the new SEAK update.

Switching to short-time work has become the preferred approach for many of our customers to protect the company and its employees in the Corona crisis. For HR departments, however, short-time work means a huge administrative burden (e.g. for time sheets), often associated with a lot of manual handling and recalculations that cost a lot of time.

To make time accounting and staff scheduling in retail easier even with short-time work and to significantly relieve employees, we mobilised all our resources and developed an unscheduled SEAK update. This SEAK update “Short-time work” contains the following new functions, among others:

  • Automated calculation of daily credits for short-time work compensation
  • An overview of the developments and any overspending of the available time accounts already in the current month and as predicted for the end of the month
  • Assessment for reporting short-time compensation and sick hours to the Employment Agency
  • Export of hours via Excel (if the “Excel interface” module is available)
  • Data transfers via an interface to wage/salary is possible ( if the »interface Lo/Ge« module is available).
  • Display of the available monthly short-time work budget for planning purposes
  • Easier planning – Without queries about short-time work. (The security query “Plan despite existing absence” does not appear for short-time work. This makes daily processing easier).
  • It is possible to differentiate between the dates when switching from the previous manual billing system to the new automated billing system.

Installing the SEAK update for “short-time work”

As always, this update is free of charge for our maintenance customers. To arrange an installation appointment, simply contact our hotline.

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Not yet a maintenance customer?

If you have any questions, are not yet a maintenance customer or are not yet using the SEAK system, please also contact our hotline:

+49 40 739 243 55 (Monday – Friday from 9 am – 5 pm)

We are looking forward to meeting you and provide any support you may require.

“We have achieved all our goals.” SEAK at Hubmann – Interview with Managing Director Florian Hubmann 1000 667 Workforce Management im Handel | SEAK Software GmbH
“We have achieved all our goals.” SEAK at Hubmann – Interview with Managing Director Florian Hubmann

“Simple” and “fast” are descriptors that are used again and again when talking to entrepreneur Florian Hubmann about his experiences with SEAK’s workforce management. But it is not only in terms of user-friendliness that the system for staff scheduling and time management scores points in the two Hubmann businesses: The company has also made a big leap forward in terms of productivity and efficiency since the introduction of the SEAK solution.

“When stylish fashion, authentic living spaces, a wide selection of modern clothing brands and appealing offers, uncompromising service ethics and open-minded people come together, shopping becomes a special kind of experience.” This is the claim in the two Hubmann fashion stores in Stainz and in Eibiswald (Styria/Austria).

For the Hubmanns, fashion consulting means helping customers to present their personality as authentically as possible. With openness and honesty, they provide advice that is appropriate for each style and type. Visitors should be able to enjoy the time in which their needs are carefully attended to.

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Mode Weber St. Gallen | www.seak.de
“Communication and the flow of information are now much more efficient.” SEAK at Mode Weber (St. Gallen, Switzerland) – Interview with Lukas Weber 1000 686 Workforce Management im Handel | SEAK Software GmbH
“Communication and the flow of information are now much more efficient.” SEAK at Mode Weber (St. Gallen, Switzerland) – Interview with Lukas Weber

SEAK’s workforce management, which is used by retailers to control staff scheduling, is not a cold cost-cutting tool, but a system that also integrates the interests of employees. This holistic approach can be felt and experienced in daily work with the SEAK system – says Lukas Weber, fashion retailer from St. Gallen (Switzerland). The entrepreneur also benefits from additional time resources that the system frees up at management level.

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L&T Hasewelle | www.seak.de
„This software is compatible with our DNA.” SEAK at L & T – an interview with HR manager Daniel Wessel 1000 750 Workforce Management im Handel | SEAK Software GmbH
„This software is compatible with our DNA.” SEAK at L & T – an interview with HR manager Daniel Wessel

L&T, Lengermann & Trieschmann, is a top address in German fashion retail. Insights and actions generated here in Osnabrück tend to attract the attention of the wider German retail sector. L&T has approximately 630 employees.

The company is especially keen to attract “responsible employees who actively use available opportunities for participation”, says the Head of HR Daniel Wessel. This particularly applies to questions related to staff scheduling.

“Employee trust has grown noticeably. They feel taken seriously because they can easily and effectively communicate with us and integrate their wishes, as well as partially manage and take care of any concerns themselves.”

Daniel Wessel, HR manager L&T
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“Our plans are more efficient and we have achieved our results faster than ever.” SEAK at Kaufhaus Ahrens – an interview with Ulrich Mücke and Alexander Marczoch 150 150 Workforce Management im Handel | SEAK Software GmbH
“Our plans are more efficient and we have achieved our results faster than ever.” SEAK at Kaufhaus Ahrens – an interview with Ulrich Mücke and Alexander Marczoch

At the Ahrens department store in Marburg, a lot is moving along well recently. Key indicators show a development toward increased productivity. This can be attributed to a better shopping experience for customers – thanks to optimised staff scheduling and working times. Further evolving and reinventing the company again and again is also part of Ahrens’ history in Marburg.

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„Our hourly productivity has increased.“ SEAK at GANT – Interview with IT-Director Stephan Speckmann 1000 700 Workforce Management im Handel | SEAK Software GmbH
„Our hourly productivity has increased.“ SEAK at GANT – Interview with IT-Director Stephan Speckmann

SEAKWorkforce Managementprovides a significant relief for managers at GANT stores as well as more transparency with regard to staff performance and the available hourly budget. But most importantly: hourly productivity has increased since the software was introduced.

The original American premium lifestyle brand GANT is the epitome of European elegance combined with American sportswear since 1949. Founded in 1949 near Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut – and famous for the legendary Oxford button-down shirt popular with students and professors at American elite universities, the label continues to represent the East Coast lifestyle to this day.

The GANT collection series offers high-quality clothing for men, women and children, as well as watches, sunglasses and home wares. The GANT brand is a symbol and a promise – of authenticity, passion and innovation, according to the company’s motto “Never Stop Learning”.

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„Staff costs reduced by more than 20%.” SEAK at PYLONES – Interview with area manager Jürgen Kohnen 1000 700 Workforce Management im Handel | SEAK Software GmbH
„Staff costs reduced by more than 20%.” SEAK at PYLONES – Interview with area manager Jürgen Kohnen

On how the French chain PYLONES manages to reduce staff costs in its German stores without compromising the quality of service through staff scheduling and time management from SEAK software.

PYLONES is the extraordinary story of Jacques and Léna Guillemet, who started out as designers in a small creative studio in 1985 and today own an international company.

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Intersport Gü Sport store
„Overtime is down 80 percent.” SEAK at Intersport GÜ Sport – Interview with Managing Director Rüdiger Günl 900 617 Workforce Management im Handel | SEAK Software GmbH
„Overtime is down 80 percent.” SEAK at Intersport GÜ Sport – Interview with Managing Director Rüdiger Günl

Staff scheduling in sports retail: The entrepreneur Rüdiger Günl speaks about its benefits and his experience working with SEAK software.

Scheduling employees as productively as possible is a basic principle for managers in retail. But as the number of stores and employees increases, this becomes an outright challenge without intelligent, sophisticated software for staffing requirements planning.

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