Title
Scheduling workforce for retail stores with employee preferences
Abstract
Traditional brick-and-mortar retailers are facing increasing pressures due to the rapid growth of E-commerce and high employee turnover inherent to the retail industry. To drive continuous growth and profits, brick-and mortar retailers need effective store workforce scheduling methods that cope with employee preferences in order to simultaneously cut cost and improve employee satisfaction. In this paper, a mixed integer programming model is proposed for this purpose. Employee's satisfaction is maximized by satisfying employee's preferences for leave and working partners to the largest extent, and balancing working hours among employees. The proposed model is tested on an apparel retail store in China. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/SOLI.2015.7367407
2015 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations And Logistics, And Informatics (SOLI)
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
workforce scheduling,retail store,employee preferences,mixed integer programming
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
dingding lin100.34
yue tong200.34
ganggang niu300.34
yongqing xue400.68
xin shi500.34
Changrui Ren68214.85
zongying zhang700.68