Johannesburg, 25 Oct 2010
“Softline VIP's Premier HR solution is a wonderful system, which has solved many of our reporting and record keeping problems,” says Auto Trader HR Manager Ronelle James.
“It is extremely user friendly, and because we now have the ability to track each and every employee's life cycle, it gives HR an opportunity to focus on all aspects of an employee, including training, performance management etc,” she says. “We have also been taken aback by the OrgPlus chart, which we can pull at the click of a button, enabling us to track movements throughout the month together with the budgets,” says James.
Auto Trader has used Softline VIP's payroll solution for the past seven years, but many aspects of the human resources function were still completed manually and paper driven. In 2009, they decided to go digital and approached Softline VIP to implement its complete Premier HR solution, including payroll, timesheets, leave applications, skills development and equity modules.
“We decided to go with Softline VIP because we already had an existing relationship with them, and they are the market leaders in HR and payroll solutions,” says James. The implementation process started in early 2010. “The transition to the new system was a bit difficult, as establishing any new processes are, but we had a Softline VIP site consultant to help us work through any problems or questions we had, and it was all worth it in order to realise our goal of going digital,” says James. The company is still in the process of rolling out the leave-tracking module and is also building a performance management system at the moment, and plans to implement the employee self-service module in 2011.
“We are now able to track everything that goes on in HR, including our goals and budgets and can see if we are on our way to achieving them. No more manual labour, as everything is in a central location and literally at our fingertips and not in a file somewhere, so we don't lose sight of things,” says James.
Softline VIP's Premier HR solution offers a logical and integrated extension to VIP's payroll offering. It has fully functional HR capabilities that stretch from job and document management to fully functional performance management, succession planning, suitability analysis and much more.
“We are looking forward to the upcoming budget process which will be much easier than the previous manual system. We will be able to track employee increases and market related trends with making budgeting decisions easier,” says James. We have already experienced huge benefits in our reporting capabilities as we are now able to report accurate figures in our monthly reports.”
Auto Trader South Africa is a professional publisher of the leading media market space for buyers and sellers across all types of vehicles. The company's readership keeps growing and currently stands at 781 000 readers per week in print and more than 500 000 unique online visitors per month. Over 35 000 vehicles are advertised in the publication each week by franchised and non-franchised dealers, independent dealers and private sellers.
“Softline VIP has been extremely supportive and patient during the implementation process and helped us every step of the way. I would highly recommend Premier HR to all companies because of its ease of use and accurate reporting,” concludes James.
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