Since its inception in 1924, the Woolworths Group has become an Australian retail icon for its 29 million consumers. Proudly servicing Australian families for decades, the Woolworths Group offers a diverse portfolio of retail brands across the country. Starting out from humble beginnings as a variety store in Sydney’s imperial arcade, it is now a diverse chain of brands such as Big W, BWS, Dan Murphy’s, and Marley & Spoon. Woolworths will continue to thrive as not only the supermarket brand Australians love and trust, but one of Australia’s largest workforces with 205,000 employees.

With the unprecedented impacts of COVID19, the retail sector will continue to face fluctuating uncertainties. Organisations will be forced to focus on improved ways of working, such as a digitally enhanced employee and consumer experience. The modernisation of the consumer experience has seen a greater demand for access to improved systems within the workplace. This expectation requires a flexible digital platform that enables employees and managers to be more effective in their roles.

Legacy-bound internal technology platforms are often strained and cumbersome. To stay agile in response to shifts within the workforce, organisations need to reply on accurate, real-time, data-driven insights to manage uncertainties. As businesses are required to take a look at their workforce in order to drive operating efficiencies, customers such as Target, Bunnings Warehouse, and the largest telco operator in Australia have chosen Workday.

The Workday platform is built on a unique and highly flexible technology architecture framework that provides a single source of truth across HR and finance, enabling:

• Data-driven business decisions: A solid foundation for business insights that is built on data integrity, having transactions and reporting from the same platform providing accurate, real-time dashboards, as well as predictive and prescriptive analytics.
• Agility to respond to business needs: Ability to plan for the future using scenarios, and seamlessly execute plans with ease by leveraging a platform that is both easy to configure and enables dynamic adjusting and re-planning.
• Engagement of employees through a personalized, intuitive, and mobile-enabled experience, to ensure they can keep their focus on the number one priority – the customers.

With the continued growth and diversification of brands within the Woolworths Group, Workday can support Woolworths by offering an agile system, built of a flexible business process framework. As your business is required to respond with rapidly changing operating and financial models, our solution allows you to scenario plan your workforce to meet the shifting demands today and into the future.