Understanding workwear rollouts

You’ve put the time and effort into rebranding, and designed a new-look uniform to match your refreshed business. The hard part is over – right? Well, maybe not, as it depends on how you manage the rollout of that uniform to your teams…

A well-managed workwear rollout should run smoothly from start to finish. This means:

• It is easy for individual employees to select their workwear preferences and sizes
• This information is correctly provided to your workwear supplier
• Items are collated and submitted as a bulk order to reduce administration and paperwork
• You know from the outset when to expect delivery, and get updates along the way if anything changes
• It is easy for the different items to get to the individuals that ordered them
• Your employees are unable to change or increase their allocation, or collect a different size than they ordered upon delivery

As a specialist supplier of workwear and PPE to the logistics industry, iSB Group has helped many customers over the years with the rebranding and subsequent rollout of new workwear for their teams.

We work with customers in different ways depending on their preference, but are comfortable managing the entire process, removing that burden of responsibility from our clients’ teams.

Undertaking a workwear rollout with iSB Group can take a few different forms, depending on client preference. These are:

• Customer-managed rollout
• Part-managed rollout
• Fully managed rollout

Workwear rollout: Customer-managed

Some customers prefer to manage their workwear rollout themselves in its entirety. Those customers consult their employees and teams, collate a list of required items and sizes, and place a bulk order with us for the uniform, PPE and other items they need.

This bulk order is then shipped to a single location where the customer takes responsibility for unpacking, sorting and handing out items, or organising collection by individuals or teams.

For smaller organisations, this might not be too difficult a process, but larger companies spread over multiple sites may find it a logistical nightmare to ensure items are collected in a timely fashion, and that people stick to their ordered allocation (particularly when they may have forgotten what they originally ordered).

It is also worth bearing in mind that, depending on the size of the order, businesses might need to allocate significant space to store items prior to them being collected by employees.

Workwear rollouts with iSB Group

By allowing iSB Group to manage their workwear rollout in its entirety, customers save valuable dedication of time and resource that could be better spent elsewhere.

All we need is a list of employee names and to know how you want us to organise allowances. Our sophisticated online software does the rest.

Our process:

Step 1: Employee names are loaded into our online portal, and bespoke packages created as necessary to control who can order which items. Some customers ask us to limit total spend per person based on their role in the business, while others use a points system to control how much workwear can be ordered and by whom.
Step 2: Logins are provided to those identified as being responsible for ordering workwear. This may be individuals selecting their own workwear, or line managers taking responsibility for their teams.
Step 3: Individuals / line managers login and select items for ordering, with only those items pre-approved by you for that individual available for selection.
Step 4: Individual orders are collated automatically in the system into one bulk order for approval by your head office or finance team.
Step 5: Your order is fulfilled, with individual employee allocations packaged in recycled plastic bags labelled with their surname, before being grouped together by destination and packaged for shipping. You receive full updates throughout the process, so you know exactly where everything is at any one time.
Step 6: Each depot or office location receives its own delivery of workwear containing individual packages clearly labelled by staff member, ready for collection by those employees.

Working together for a smooth workwear rollout

Ultimately, we want your workwear rollout to be a success, and for it to go as smoothly as possible. So we’ll work with you in whatever way suits you best to get the job done, whether you want us to take control of the entire process, leave you to get on with it, or something in between!

We can also help to manage your ongoing workwear ordering process, using the same online portal to set up timed reallocations, new starter packs by role, and more. Give us a call to find out more.