About Us
History
Scheduling Dynamics is an Illinois based privately held corporation founded by Paul Anderson which specializes
in providing consulting services to the retail supermarket, drug store and general merchandise industry. Since
1975, the company and its principals have provided services to more than 50 North American supermarket chains
in the area of store operations, warehousing and administrative support management (merchandising, accounting
and technical services). More specifically, the company works directly with the Chief Executive Officer or top
Operations executive in establishing work norms and standards to improve customer service and store
profitability, resulting in reduced labor costs, improved sales, increased gross margins and reduced product
shrink.
CEO Bio
Paul K. Anderson, President of Scheduling Dynamics has lectured for Food Marketing Institute, the National
Association of Wholesale Grocers, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Cornell University and
Northwestern University. He was a contracted speaker on implementing financial systems for Advanced Management
Research. He has advised Cornell University on content for its supermarket Home Study Course.
He is the author of Effective Labor Scheduling published by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores under
a grant from SmithKline Corporation and has been featured in Supermarket News, Drug Store News, Progressive
Grocer and Drug Topics. He is recognized by Who's Who in American Business 1995-96 and 1999-2000 as a leader
in the consulting and supermarket industry.
Anderson holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago and a BS from the New
York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. He is Chairman of the Budget
Committee for the town of Chester, Vermont, and is active in the Chambers of Commerce for both Ludlow and
Chester, Vt.
He was previously Director of Point of Sale Systems for Loblaw, Ltd. He coordinated the development of
operating software for supermarket point of sale systems and served on the Universal Product Code operating
committee. He was also Vice President, Research and Development for Jewel Food Stores and served as Jewel
Companies, Inc. representative of the Illinois Governor's Agency Head Compensation Committee.
Recent Milestones
Scheduling Dynamics has been named as one of two finalists for providing Advance Auto Parts with Enterprise
Workforce Scheduling. SD's WorkForce automated scheduling provides Advance with functionality required by the
auto parts retail industry not available from other vendors. The labor standards data at Advance is maintained
by Scheduling Dynamics MPT Standards Maintenance application implemented in 2005.
Home Depot has selected Scheduling Dynamics as its Workforce Scheduling Auditor. SD will provide a complete
evaluation of Home Depot's existing automated scheduling application and provide the design for additional
funtionality to the application.