Case Studies

Ferro

The goal was to allow Ferro visibility to their entire employee population via a single system of record.

Ferro is a leading global producer of technology-based performance materials for manufacturers. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Ferro has operations in 23 countries. They sell products in more than 100 countries around the world. 

The lack of a single system of record for all employees worldwide resulted in several issues, such as: limited visibility into global employee data, inaccurate global headcount data and highly manual operations with inaccuracies and long cycle times.

In addition, Ferro was working with a previous install of SAP 4.6c that was not rolled out globally.  The decision to upgrade the HCM system to SAP 6.0 was made to accomplish two goals.

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Hampshire County Council

Hampshire County Council improves the accuracy of its Organisational Management data with SAP TVN.

As such a large employer, it was imperative that Hampshire County Council had an accurate and up-to-date system for monitoring the organisational structure of its workforce.

Hampshire County Council wanted to build on the accuracy of its organisational management (OM) so that staff and management would be able to raise workflow queries with HR and easily review the accurate organisational structure.

Trevor Stabb, HR Business Development and Support Manager, Hampshire County Council said, “Without a clear view of the organisational structure, approving holidays and overtime can be difficult for management and when it affects staff and the council financially, accuracy is paramount.”

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Premier Foods

ROC helps Premier Foods standardize HR processes and systems across the business.

Risk mitigation and maintaining ‘business as usual’ were important considerations when Premier Foods selected ROC to work on the SAP HCM element of the Fusion programme. ROC’s considerable experience in large scale SAP HCM implementations was one of the main reasons it was chosen, along with its Best Practice HR accelerated solution, which the consultancy developed in conjunction with SAP. The best practice approach meant the project was based on proven processes, so configuration time could be kept to a minimum and the time taken to test the system could be maximised to ensure successful delivery.

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BBC Review & Roadmap Case Study

The BBC is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. It is a public service broadcaster and is funded by the licence fee that is paid by UK households. The BBC uses the income from the licence fee to provide services including 8 national TV channels plus regional programming, 10 national radio stations, 40 local radio stations and an extensive website, bbc.co.uk. The BBC has circa 23,000 employees working across a number of divisions.
The BBC implemented SAP Finance and HR in 1999 and currently operates the 4.7 version of the system. The HR sub components consist of Personnel Administration,Organisational Management, and Training and Event Management. In 2006, the BBC outsourced its transactional HR services.

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