The Gap Between Your VMS and Your First Shift
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Future of VMS
The labour market has changed fundamentally over the last decade, yet many of the systems supporting it have remained static. At CWS 2026, we aren’t here to deliver a traditional pitch or launch a product in a vacuum. We are here to start a conversation with the leaders who know the friction best. We want to design the infrastructure of the future alongside you.
We Didn't Start Yesterday.
We aren’t just dreaming of a better system; we are already orchestrating the reality where your frontline operations and procurement standards finally exist in one place.
We haven’t just started yesterday; we have spent over 15 years building the core of this technology. We have already built a significant part of this vision—orchestrating a reality where your frontline operations and procurement standards finally exist in one place. Shiftplanner is our answer to the disconnect between the warehouse floor and the boardroom. It is technology designed with a heartbeat: aware of context, reactive to change, and built to strengthen human judgement rather than replace it.
What if the VMS
worked for everyone?
Not just the procurement team or the CFO. Imagine a system designed for the humans inside it. What would that look like for your organisation? We need you to think along to help us shape the architecture of the future.
Submit your best idea
Share your unique vision to fix workforce friction.
Help shape the vms of the future
Build the infrastructure for the 2026 labour market.
Win a bottle of champagne
Transformative insights will be toasted with premium bubbles.
Four leaders. One Broken System.
The issues we see with four leaders in the industry are structural. Every day, they fight against a VMS that was never designed for them. We need you to help us redesign it—it only takes one question to help shape the market. Here is what we see:
1. The Hiring Manager:
Dependent on a system that slows them down and allows requisitions to disappear into invisible workflows.
2. The MSP Programme Manager:
Accountable for everything but in control of nothing, serving as the bridge for a broken system.
3. The Supplier:
Treated like a data entry operator instead of a partner, fighting poor portal UX and vague feedback.
4. The Candidate:
The revenue in the programme, yet treated as an administrative problem with confusing onboarding and expiring documents.
Think along with the VMS of the future and win a bottle of champagne.
The Champagne Challenge: Think Along With Us.
No legacy constraints. No technical debt. Just one question: would you build what you have today?
Help us shape what comes next. Answer one of these:
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What is the one structural frustration you would remove from your current VMS?
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If you could redesign implementation from scratch, what would change?
- Where does your system genuinely support strategy versus mere administration?
The three most transformative insights win a bottle of premium champagne. Submit at our stand or via the link below.
The first steps in shaping the future. See it in action
Streamlining Shift Management: Solving the 04:30 No-Show Crisis
Your VMS Says the Supplier Is Performing. Your Shifts Say Otherwise.