ADVISORY/Guess? Signs With SAP Campbell for Strategic Labor Management Solutions And Gottshalks Goes Live With StaffWorks and Time and Attendance.Business Editors ADVISORY...For Monday (April 17) Retail Systems 2000 --(BUSINESS WIRE) When: April 17, 2000, at the Retail Systems 2000 Conference and Exposition exposition or exhibition, term frequently applied to an organized public fair or display of industrial and artistic productions, designed usually to promote trade and to reflect cultural progress. in Chicago What: Two customer implementations will be announced. Specialty retailer Guess? will implement SAP Campbell's StaffWorks labor management functionality into its retail business models, and Gottschalks, a department store chain based in California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). , has implemented SAP Campbell StaffWorks and Time and Attendance in over 65 percent of its stores with the remainder scheduled for implementation by late June. New Customer Signs With SAP Campbell for Strategic Labor Management Headquartered in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Guess? has more than 150 stores nationwide and is targeting completion of its SAP Campbell implementation by July 2000. With labor as the single largest controllable expense, retailers need to use their human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. as effectively as possible. The implementation of SAP Campbell's StaffWorks will enable Guess? to forecast sales for the upcoming week and then use advanced technology and mathematical optimization optimization Field of applied mathematics whose principles and methods are used to solve quantitative problems in disciplines including physics, biology, engineering, and economics. to weigh millions of scheduling variables to develop optimal employee schedules. Gottschalks Goes Live With SAP Campbell System Gottschalks, which went live with SAP Campbell in its first store in September 1999, is the largest independently owned department store chain in California and has 42 stores in California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. SAP Campbell StaffWorks scheduling and Time and Attendance solutions will equip e·quip tr.v. e·quipped, e·quip·ping, e·quips 1. a. To supply with necessities such as tools or provisions. b. the company to use labor as a strategic advantage and remain competitive in the retail market space. To maintain this competitive advantage, Gottschalks now has the forecasting tools that provide a high-level, enterprisewide look at in-depth labor and sales performance information, and provides store managers with site-specific staffing and sales data. Copyright (c) 2000, SAP AG (company) SAP AG - (Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung - German for "Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing") A company from Germany that sells the leading suite of client-server business software. The US branch is called SAP America. SAP is a registered trademark of SAP AG in Germany and several other countries. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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