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A study by Forrester Consulting found that a composite retailer using Workday experiences $29.34M in benefits.
RETAIL SOFTWARE & SOLUTIONS
We put the AI in retail
With constantly shifting consumer demands, workforce expectations and business models, the retail industry changes fast. Through the power of our AI platform, Workday helps retailers get ahead – and stay there.
WHY WORKDAY
Our AI platform has a lot in store for retailers.
Enhance workforce engagement, streamline processes, improve financial and operational visibility, and enable smarter planning – our AI platform is built to make every aspect of your retailer better.
The world’s leading organisations move forward with Workday
FUTURE-READY RETAIL
Retail, revolutionised
From driving better processes and smarter decision-making to improving employee engagement – see how you can move your organisation in the right direction: forwards.
Grocery
Manage frontline workers, optimise store operations and control costs.
Hardlines
Engage your workforce, lower operating costs and use AI to stay competitive.
Softlines
Access real-time insights, reduce costs and support growth anytime, anywhere.
Auto
Drive efficiency at your service centre, dealership or auto parts retailer.
SOLUTIONS FIT FOR YOU
Accelerating growth for retailers of all sizes.
HR, finance, payroll and planning – all the important aspects of your organisation on one AI platform that accelerates your business. Find out how you can quickly activate Workday GO and start realising value, fast.
PARTNER INDUSTRY EXPERTISE
Browse partner solutions to your business challenges.
Tackle top challenges with partner-led industry accelerators – explore the Workday Marketplace for solutions to your specific retail needs.
FUTURE-READY HR
Attract, manage and retain talent
Discover how our AI platform provides the foundation needed to attract and retain and optimise frontline workers so you’re able to build a future-ready business.
To ensure lasting success, On selected an AI platform that can scale with its future needs.
Fast-growing, omni-channel retailer is solving the quality challenges caused by decentralisation.
Leveraged conversational AI to transform its hiring process, hire faster and save store leaders time.
Harrods remains at the forefront of the competitive retail industry with Workday.
Build a retail workforce that’s ready for anything
Explore HR building blocks
Attract, manage and retain frontline workers with a future-ready foundation.
Level up your talent strategies
Adopt a skills-based talent strategy to adapt to fluctuating talent needs.
Elevate your people with AI
Use next-gen AI to elevate your people and transform your organisation.
Rework how you manage
Reimagine employee experiences, optimise talent and harness the power of AI.
FEATURED PRODUCTS
Build a retail workforce that’s ready for anything
Candidate Experience Agent
Automate screening and scheduling with mobile-first experiences candidates love – saving you time and hiring costs.
Human Capital Management
This is next-gen HR – Workday HCM simplifies operations and empowers teams to work smarter, together.
Workforce Management
Simplify workforce management and consolidate scheduling, time tracking and absence for any team, anywhere.
Employee Experience
Predict what employees want and give them quick access to what they need so they are more productive and connected.
FUTURE-READY FINANCE
Surface insights to seize opportunities
Workday brings your financial and operational data together, streamlines reporting and eliminates manual reconciliation. The result? Your finance team has more time to focus on analysis and strategic work.
Specsavers turned to Workday Adaptive Planning to better understand the costs.
In a world where every penny counts, the right tools and technology can make all the difference.
With a flexible HR and Finance system, the Gym Group gains the agility to keep up with change.
Improved the planning process and centralised accounting and finance.
Turn raw data into decisions
Make sharper decisions, faster
Make better decisions and improve profitability with real-time financial reporting and analytics.
Drive insights with the right data
Empower your finance teams with a single view into people, financial and operational data.
Forecast with accuracy
Develop more accurate forecast models, scenario analyses and strategic plans with great accuracy.
Bring finance and HR together.
Break down data silos to unlock smarter insights by uniting finance and human capital management.
FEATURED PRODUCTS
Transform every area of finance
Financial Management
Gain a trusted source of truth with consolidated data accelerated by next-gen AI.
Accounting Centre
Automatically transform business events into accounting for rich insights.
Financial Planning
Explore strategic planning and forecasting to keep your retail organisation ahead.
Contract Intelligence
Gain visibility and transform contracts into actionable data.
Research
Discover how Workday can benefit your business
Using Workday, retailers have achieved higher profits, fewer payroll errors and faster financial planning. This is detailed in The Total Economic Impact™ of Workday for Retail Organizations, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Workday, which found that a composite retailer experienced $29.34m in benefits.
FUTURE-READY OPERATIONS
Streamline operations to accelerate growth
Whether you’re overseeing a department, region or an entire operation – Workday helps you streamline processes, automate tasks and make data-driven decisions.
Unlocked 15-min interval scheduling accuracy with AI.
Fast-growing, omni-channel retailer is solving the quality challenges caused by decentralisation.
Decreased overtime by 10% with Workday Scheduling.
Empowered store managers with instant access to data to help manage expenses.
Drive operational excellence
Explore HR building blocks
Attract, manage and retain frontline workers with a future-ready foundation.
Rework how you manage
Reimagine employee experiences, optimise talent and harness the power of unified data.
Find the right system
Flexible, simple, fast – find out how to select a workforce management system that adapts to change.
See the real cost of aging systems
Dive into the costs of working with disjointed and unreliable data – and then discover the solution.
FEATURED PRODUCTS
Improve every aspect of how your organisation operates
Candidate Experience Agent
Automate screening and scheduling with mobile-first experiences candidates love – saving you time and hiring costs.
Time Tracking
Simplify time capture for employees, accelerate approvals for managers and gain insights into resource allocation.
Scheduling and Labour Optimisation
Create schedules that work for everyone with AI that aligns worker preferences and availability with business demand.
Workday VNDLY
Simplify end-to-end management of contingent labour and statements of work while optimising your total workforce strategy.
Research
Discover how Workday can benefit your business
Retailers using Workday have achieved higher profits, fewer payroll errors and faster financial planning. See how a composite retail organisation experienced $29.34M in benefits in this commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Workday.
FUTURE-READY IT
Unleash the power of AI for IT
Powered effortless decision-making by connecting data sources across the organisation.
Developed apps that support team members’ health, compensation processes and work-life balance.
Leveraged conversational AI to transform its hiring process, hire faster and save store leaders time.
Using a data-driven approach is helping managers better support their teams – and helping HR make smarter, faster decisions.
A platform that helps you do it all.
Get a better view of your company.
Securely and efficiently connect to third-party systems for seamless data visibility.
Get ahead of the competition.
Take a human-centric approach to AI to boost agility and unlock competitive advantages.
Always be ready for change.
Adapt to evolving needs with an AI platform that can seamlessly integrate with best-of-breed point solutions.
See how to scale successfully.
From personalised shopping to smarter staffing – use analytics and agentic AI to stay sharp and scale.
WORKDAY PLATFORM
Improve every aspect of IT
AI Agents
AI agents from Workday are superintelligent teammates. Grounded in your trusted enterprise data, they get work done right.
Workday Orchestrate
Easily connect to external systems with prebuilt integrations and create interoperable architectures.
Workday Extend
Quickly build apps for your people, finance and industry needs with our AI-powered, low- and no-code developer tools.
Workday Marketplace
Move your business forward with an economy of partner expertise built and certified for our AI platform.
Research
Discover how Workday can benefit your business
Using Workday, retailers have achieved higher profits, fewer payroll errors and faster financial planning. This is detailed in The Total Economic Impact™ of Workday for Retail Organizations, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Workday, which found that a composite retailer experienced $29.34m in benefits.
See how we help you succeed