INSTORENEWS
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BODYCARE TRAINS TO GAIN
X The High
Street chain
Budgens recently
introduced
WITH NEW BT SYSTEM
biometric
technology to
½ ngerprint all
staff and help
A
ground-breaking, competency induction had been completed such as BT Jigsaw also contains a concise
based system, sitting on an basic health and safety. induction engine that enables employees
clamp down
industry based framework is BT Jigsaw will allow Bodycare and managers to enter their own
on employees
clocking in for
set to more than triple throughput of to vastly increase the numbers of unique ‘Details Portal,’ allowing them to
each other and
staff sitting Bodycare’s existing retail personnel who can complete the book holidays, order uniforms, order
entering false
National Vocational Quali½ cation apprenticeship programme, while contracts of employment and employee
hours. The scheme
(NVQ) programme, while reducing increasing government funding. handbooks, for example. This engine
using Touch ID
traditional assessor time and Dan Blackledge, Bodycare in-store includes a messaging service, which will
terminals has
initially been
administration costs by as much as coordinator said: “Reducing carbon message the store manager only when
introduced to six
62%. footprint was one of our main necessary and will ¾ ag speci½ c tasks that
stores, with plans
Bodycare offers a wide range of priorities, with the focus on removing need approval. In this way managers can
for roll out to
fragrances, toiletries, medicines and costly paper workbooks and reducing administer what their employees are
twenty more and
health and beauty products through the amount of time our internal doing quickly, plus gain access to their
has already saved
the company
its 130 UK outlets. During the ½ nancial assessors were spending travelling to own personnel details.
thousands of
year 2007/08, Bodycare successfully and from stores to assess staff.” Blackledge said: “We required a solution
pounds that was
completed 82 in-store NVQ Bodycare also wanted to be able to that would not only provide dynamic
being claimed by
accreditations. This was done via their initiate a simple wages process at store reference material to support our store
staff under false
own award-winning paper workbooks level that would allow managers to staff during the rollout of our new EPoS
pretences.
endorsed by the Learning and Skills create and sanction the weekly payroll solution, but would also provide us with
Council (LSC). online and directly from the electronic a unique platform for our existing Retail
While these subjects proved point of sale (EPoS). With BT Jigsaw, Apprenticeship and Induction programme.”
successful, the workbooks were Bodycare were able to create a simple He added: “Investing in Virtual
expensive to produce and created a online wages facility for their store View & Learn and BT Jigsaw from BT
high ongoing administration cost. In managers. Expedite will provide us with a unique
addition to this, the internal induction This has taken away a huge manual framework, which will future proof our
programme for anyone joining weekly task for the store management business allowing us to move quickly
Bodycare was completely paper-based, teams and allowed them to see the when we are faced with implementing
X Blu ray
which meant that there was no way of right level of information at the head new compliance and legislative subjects
authoring and
tracking the process or giving company of½ ce integrated into their existing and updating our store induction
programming
wide visibility that key areas of the payroll system. programme.”
experts, Sony
DADC are
exploring the uses
NEW SYSTEMS IMPROVE
of the technology
behind Blu ray
TRAVELLERS SALES
to enhance
marketing and
Travellers, an independent retailer of designer and quality leather goods
promotion in the
including its own products under the Lloyd Baker brand, has invested in retail market.
Eurostop’s e_rmis retail system. Neil Bottrill from
The company has also installed its electronic point of sale (EPoS) in its Sony DADC
stores located across London and Oxford. And it is using Eurostop’s solution
said: “BD Live
to manage stock across its stores and has improved stock control, sales and
BÄ.RO Lighting, through Greenway
allows networked
pro½ ts as a result of the new reporting system.
Electrical, have supplied new lighting
enabled Blu
Since implementing the system Lloyd Baker has been able to use weekly
for the Farm Shop element of the
ray players
reports to monitor stock sales in each of its stores, identifying poor sellers north west region’s most famous
to download
additional audio
and also managing the performance of each store. garden centre, Barton Grange based
visual and
Kaung Aung, director at Travellers and Lloyd Baker said: “We were impressed in Brock on the outskirts of Preston,
interactive content
by the way the system meets our needs without being overly complex. Its user- Lancashire. The site has been greatly
while the disc is
friendly interface has made it very easy for staff to be quickly up and running. extended in a multimillion-pound
playing. It also
“Since implementing the system we have been delighted with the project to include the prestigious food
allows for instant
more accurate reports and the control that this has given us on our stock, hall and its combination of BÄ.RO price and product
improving our sales results.” ¼ xtures, lamps and accessories updates –
Travellers has also implemented a stock management and scanning system, that best illuminate the shop, while
instantly uploading
enabling it signi½ cantly reduce the time taken to carry out stock takes in each
ensuring the light was also gentle on
images, words,
of its stores.
goods to prolong their shelf life.
audio visuals and
trailers.”
NOVEMBER 2008 RETAIL TECHNOLOGY
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