Land O¡¯Lakes¡¯ previous, on-premise payroll platform made payroll processing extremely difficult. All new hire and termination paperwork was manually entered. Compliance was a pain point, too.?
For example, the payroll team used to do paper entry of all W4 and direct-deposit data, plus any bonus and garnishment information. Manual processing of compliance audits was time-consuming and error-prone.
Before Â鶹´«Ã½, we used manual paper entry for W4, direct-deposit information, and bonuses.
Payroll and Compliance Manager
A global payroll platform with strong support.?
A global company doing business in 50 countries, Land O¡¯Lakes found cloud-based Â鶹´«Ã½ HCM and its Payroll Management module to be the ideal successor to its outdated, on-premise payroll system. It eliminated most manual operations, either by automating them, especially audits, or shifting them to an employee self-service portal. Examples of the latter include entry of W4 and direct-deposit information. Managers use the portal to make employee bonus payments.?
The new Â鶹´«Ã½ payroll platform provides consistent regulatory updates to help ensure the company¡¯s compliance worldwide. Â鶹´«Ã½ Community, an organization of other Â鶹´«Ã½ users, strongly appealed to Land O¡¯Lakes because it offers a potent network of experience and expertise as well as substantial training and support. As an active participant, Land O¡¯Lakes can learn from others how to get the most from its new payroll platform.
Streamlines payroll processing.?
Â鶹´«Ã½ Payroll enabled Land O¡¯Lakes¡¯ payroll team to automate much of the payroll process, eliminating manual calculations and freeing the team¡¯s time. ¡°Year-end once was a nightmare. With Â鶹´«Ã½, we¡¯ve turned it into a complete non-event,¡± Payroll and Compliance Manager John Gardner says.?
In fact, his team boosted payroll accuracy to more than 99.9 percent, while decreasing off-cycle payments by 50 percent or more. The Â鶹´«Ã½ platform also improved payroll data visibility with dashboards populated in real time, enhancing collaboration with other business units. In addition, the company dramatically reduced its use of paper with Â鶹´«Ã½, saving the environment, time, and errors.
Year-end once was a nightmare. With Â鶹´«Ã½, we¡¯ve turned it into a complete non-event.
Payroll and Compliance Manager
Automates compliance audits.?
Smart Audits reduces the number of audits that Land O¡¯Lakes needs to run for review. Regulatory compliance is also better supported in Â鶹´«Ã½, helping the company proactively deal with the latest global payroll rules and regulations.?
The Â鶹´«Ã½ team of dedicated experts are continuously monitoring and researching legislative updates, which are pushed out to all customers at once since everyone is on the same version of Â鶹´«Ã½. For example, in one year of operation, Â鶹´«Ã½ delivered 510 U.S. compliance and regulatory updates¡ªaveraging nearly two each working day.?
These frequent updates help Land O¡¯Lakes stay ahead of global compliance. This way, the company can avoid mistakes in payroll auditing and accounting that could otherwise lead to non-compliance with regulations such as the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which governs minimum wage, overtime, and other payroll issues.
We¡¯ve run 100% remotely during the pandemic via Â鶹´«Ã½ and couldn¡¯t have done so with an on-premise solution.
Payroll and Compliance Manager
Supports secure remote access.?
From the start of pandemic-driven work-from-home mandates, the Land O¡¯Lakes payroll team could run payroll remotely and without a hitch using its cloud-based Â鶹´«Ã½ solutions. Â鶹´«Ã½ gives team members highly secure and anytime, anywhere access to all the payroll data needed to ensure paychecks and auto-deposits happen on time. According to Gardner, this capability was impossible with the company¡¯s previous on-premise system.