Case Study: a major European pharmacy group cuts wage costs 12% with WorkAxle demand forecasting

One of Europe’s Largest Pharmacy Groups cuts wage costs 12% with Workaxle

Workaxle helped one of Europe's largest pharmacy groups overcome its challenge of accurately predicting labor demand by location, day, and hour to optimize its wage bill across thousands of stores. The group, with over 40,000 employees, needed a system to move beyond historical habit and manager intuition to a data-driven approach that could prevent both overstaffing and understaffing.

The solution began with the Workaxle Demand Forecasting module, which was built and validated on two years of the group's own operational data. Following a phased, de-risked rollout starting with a 20-store pilot, Workaxle's solution delivered a 12% saving on employee wage costs and achieved 100% ROI within just six to eight weeks of going live.