C-Store Control - Saving Time to Provide Managers More Time to Focus On People
Business issue
JD Streett has a very successful and profitable store management structure. The tracking and follow-up were consistent and the results were strong. There was a high level of manual work, however, that took hours each week for store managers to complete.
Problem
The manual work while effective,was taking a lot of management time and made it more challenging to bring on new managers that desired more automation and analytics-based support.
Assessment
The manual systems had served thier value and new tools allowed the same (and potentially better) insights with much less manual compilation. There was a potential to provide more time for other management work, decrease taxing work load, and broader and deeper monitoring of the high volume store transactions load.
Solution
Streett implemented an operations solution that provide daily, weekly, and monthly scheduled analytics directly to store managers. They invested in transitioning thier success manual systems to an automated process. They were able to re-allocate both time and costs towards staff development and rewards.
Lessons learned:
C-Store operatiosn continue to evolve. Investing in technology, management development, and automation is an important and impactful means to on-going improvement. Respecting staff capabilities, historical process knowledge and skills, while providing meaningful and incremental improvements keeps stores releveant and increasing in value.