Why Retailers Are Leaving Their Legacy WFM Systems and Choosing Legion

Legion Workforce Management software is intelligent, automated, and employee-centric and is a game changer for retailers. Explore why retailers are leaving their legacy solutions behind in order to maximise labour efficiency and employee engagement simultaneously by switching to Legion WFM.

Top 5 Reasons Customers Switch From Legacy Solutions to Legion WFM

Greater demand forecasting accuracy

  • The most advanced AI-based demand forecasting.
  • Proven double-digit accuracy improvement over legacy solutions and 5x ROI

Intelligent, automated scheduling

  • Reduce scheduling time by 50%
  • Match business needs with employee preferences and skills 96% of the time with just one click
  • Easily schedule and share employees across locations

Employee engagement and ease of use

  • Increase schedule flexibility
  • An intuitive app employees love – 4.9 app store rating
  • Employee-centric UI and modern communication tools

Fast Time to Value

  • Fast deployment across all locations at a fraction of the cost and time
  • Approved integration with Workday
  • Seamlessly integrate with existing timeclocks

Partnership

  • Legion partners with you to drive adoption and engagement
  • Legion and YOOBIC deliver an all-in-one solution enabling retailers to maximise labour efficiency while simultaneously improving the frontline employee experience
  • Collaborative peer community and co-innovation with customers
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[With Legion], managers can shift away from really what I like to call ‘1980s retail’ and into the modern age.

Director of Workforce Planning, Retail

Forrester TEI on Legion WFM

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What You Get with Legion WFM

Intelligent, automated, employee-centric workforce management software

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Proven Results

A Forrester TEI study quantified the economic impact of the Legion platform for a company with 15K employees across 700 locations over a three-year period, delivering $50.8m in benefits.

Forrester

13x

Return on investment

Key Takeaways

41.5%

Schedule optimisation

21.7%

Reduced attrition

<6 month

Project payback

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Legion Delivers Unmatched ROI

Legion ROI compared to the leading legacy provider

134%

Greater saving per store manager

287%

Greater ROI

Let's get into the details of why retailers are turning to Legion WFM

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Automatically generate models by unique dataset to deliver higher accuracy and automated ingestion and analysis of 1000s of data points

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Automatically assign employees across locations to provide additional options to earn wages and optimise labour efficiencies

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Automatically incorporate historical, ongoing demand drivers and future events, to staff top performers during peak periods and to provide a frictionless customer experience

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Pre-built, up-to-date compliance templates and business rules ensure schedules are predictable and fully compliant

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Full automation of over 55 common activities frees managers to drive sales and engagement

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No technical debt or legacy code. Leverage Legion’s AI-native microservices-based architecture and single code base across all systems

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Legion and YOOBIC together, provide complete schedule awareness within task management, visibility of schedules alongside tasks and completion of tasks against the schedule

Scheduling

With the synchronisation of Legion data into YOOBIC, corporate teams can evaluate each store's capacity and ensure tasks are scheduled efficiently.

Customers Who Have Turned to Legion WFM From Legacy Solutions

Cinemark
Dollar General
CircleK
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Five Below

3 Top Discount Retailers

2 of the Top 10 Largest Sporting Goods Retailers

We loved the UI, the functions and feature set, the easy-to-use mobile app, and the product roadmap.

Executive Director of Information Systems
National Petro-Convenience Store Chain

Enabled by Legion’s intuitive UI and modern deployment and training strategy, we were able to get our first 200 locations on Legion live in less than 5 months. Thousands of additional locations went live in the following 15 weeks – at a fraction of the cost other vendors offered.

Director of Workforce Planning
Retail

In my last role, I used a legacy WFM solution. It was clunky and didn’t predict scheduling needs effectively. Legion’s Workforce Management Platform has enabled us to transform scheduling from an art to a science.

Senior Manager
Global Retail Operations

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Legion WFM is an AI-native platform based on award winning data science.

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