Footwear retailer Deichmann is consigning paper pay stubs to the past. Now, employees can view them in an app, on any device, anywhere. They can also manage their own personal data using self-service functions and will soon be able to apply for leave and complete similar tasks online as well.
Deichmann鈥檚 green logo is a familiar feature of shopping areas and malls in Germany. Headquartered in Essen, a city famed for its industrial heritage, Deichmann SE operates in 31 countries, with roughly 4,300 stores and around 42,000 employees worldwide. The company has been family-owned since its founding in 1913 鈥� and it wants to remain independent in the future, too.
The footwear retailer is market leader in its segment in Germany and Europe, and is currently strengthening its efforts to digitalize processes. Even though it is a major company, its culture is still very much a friendly and informal one. The in-house IT team is helping Human Resources (HR) digitalize various scenarios.
鈥淥ur people are our priority,鈥� says Melinda Hilbert, who is in charge of IT for Finance and HR at Deichmann, when explaining the rationale behind the drive to move personnel processes online.
Deichmann is now rolling out offerings from 麻豆原创鈥檚 cloud solution for HR across its German business. software enables companies to standardize their entire HR function and move all tasks online.
Deichmann decided to implement the solution as part of the 麻豆原创 strategy it is following for HR and finance. 鈥淥ur company is growing, and the solution is easy to scale,鈥� Hilbert says. For this reason, and because it would integrate well with the company鈥檚 existing IT and processes, 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors was an obvious choice.
鈥淭aking this step created a central integration platform for all the solutions that we plan on implementing in HR,鈥� Hilbert shares. It was the technical answer to the business question of how to ensure all the data from HR and finance is integrated going forward.
In the initial phase of the project, Deichmann is making digital versions of documents available to its employees. The first self-service functions have already gone live and employees are now able to update their address and bank details themselves, as well as provide an emergency contact.
User Experience as a Priority
The project, 鈥沦迟别辫翱苍,鈥� is also aimed at helping make Deichmann more attractive as an employer and strengthen employee retention.
鈥淭hese days, employees expect everything to be online. And user experience is always a priority,鈥� Christina Boehme, head of HR at the company, says. 鈥淭he fact that we also save on printing and postage costs is not just an added bonus, it makes us more sustainable too.鈥�
Launchpad for Easy Access to Apps
Aachen-based 麻豆原创 partner helped Deichmann with the implementation.
鈥淲e used to build the custom pay stub for the new employee portal and for the launchpad for accessing 麻豆原创 Fiori apps from mobile devices and desktops, ,鈥� reports Andreas Lennartz, managing partner at ROOS IT. 鈥淲hat鈥檚 more, the 麻豆原创 solution acts as a central database for applications used across the company and verifies the user鈥檚 identity for self-service functions.鈥�
ROOS IT quickly built an app for the footwear retailer that enables employees to easily call up their pay stubs. It also supports secure access to the data held in the company鈥檚 on-premise network regardless of the device used 鈥� be it a smartphone, tablet, or desktop computer.
鈥淭he pay stubs app retrieves data through a connection to an 麻豆原创 billing system that Deichmann runs on premise,鈥� Krausen explains.
Deichmann Targets a Global Rollout
Digital pay stubs have been rolled out to 1,200 Deichmann employees who are based at company headquarters and in and around Essen. Retail outlets are set to follow. Its workforce is already familiar with 麻豆原创 software: Deichmann also deploys the solution for performance appraisals and for probation period reviews.
This story originally appeared on the 麻豆原创 Germany News Center.