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HR Suite Vendor Selection

MAIN GOAL

We understand the critical role of the HR Suite in your organization. We want to empower your business with the right external partners who can seamlessly integrate with your HR operations, driving efficiency, innovation, and growth.

Together, we evaluate various vendors based on your specific criteria. These can consist of functionality, expertise, reputation, cost-effectiveness, compatibility with your needs and culture, and reliability.

CENTRAL CHALLENGE

Finding a balance between the diverse needs and preferences of your stakeholders while ensuring alignment with your organization’s strategic objectives and budget constraints is a major challenge in all vendor selection processes.

At the same time, there is a vast landscape of different vendors, and finding the right vendor not purely based on polished sales presentations required guidance and expertise to make a well-informed decision.

OUR EXPERTISE

Together with you, we identify and prioritize key areas of support, introduce you to lessons learned, identify quick-wins and form a clear path forward “from idea to reality”.
We have accompanied close implementations of different leading HCM suites in various companies. We offer holistic support from collecting and consolidating requirements through the proof of concept and configuration up to the Go-live and hypercare.
Ready-to-use templates and tools: We can support you from the ground up, using proven tools like requirement catalogues based on industry best practices and backed by leading benchmarking firms, a selection of vendor selection methodologies suiting to your needs, and pre-defined evaluation areas.

YOUR ADVANTAGE

With a track record of many successful HR vendor selection projects, we bring a wealth of expertise, both functional and methodological, to the table.
We prioritize your unique needs and objectives while keeping an eye on the bigger picture to drive standardization and benefit from industry best practices.
We have a deep knowledge of the main challenges and provide expertise based on current trends and future needs.

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HR Cloud Provider Selection

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The customer

Covestro is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high-tech polymer materials. As an innovative company, Covestro works on the production of environmentally friendly materials and manufacturing processes. With 16,200 employees in more than 30 locations worldwide, the company generated sales of 14.1 billion euros in fiscal 2017. Covestro has been listed on the stock exchange since October 2015 and has been listed on the DAX since March 2018.
The task

From a strategic point of view, Covestro opted for a highly standardised HR cloud solution that was not very personnel-intensive in terms of support, as a replacement for the previous On-Premise SAP HR system. Based on its expertise and experience in this field, HCM Consultant Group GmbH was commissioned to advise Covestro on the selection of a suitable cloud provider and to actively accompany the selection process.
The Project

The first step in the “HR Cloud Provider Selection” project was to develop the criteria for evaluating the new HR Cloud solution and its providers. The “Longlist” pre-selection of possible providers based on market analyses formed the basis for the actual selection process:

Request for Proposal (RfP). The HR Cloud Providers of the Longlist were asked for details about their service within the scope of an RfP procedure. For this purpose, the project team designed an evaluation catalogue with detailed professional and technical requirements. In addition, information on the price model and support model was also requested.

Workshops at process level: Expert teams from Covestro and the offering cloud providers deepened the exchange on crucial sub-areas of the business and technical requirements from the RfP. The knowledge gained from this was incorporated into the “Evaluation Score Card” developed during the project. Other key criteria were the pricing model of the providers, their behaviour during the RfP process and their financial stability and willingness to invest in the ongoing development of your cloud solution.

System presentation and usability: In the course of a live demonstration, the cloud was able to present the functionality of its systems using HR processes selected by Covestro. Different groups of employees evaluated the usability of the HR cloud solutions offered. The result was a shortlist of the favoured 3 HR Cloud/SaaS providers.

Decision and selection: Contract negotiations have started with the remaining 3 HR Cloud/SaaS providers. Their results, combined with the findings of the Evaluation Score Card and strategic considerations about the HR IT orientation of Covestro, led to the decision.
This is how HCM supported Covestro in its project

HCM Consultant Group GmbH was already Covestro’s HR/IT consulting partner for the 2015 carve-out from the Bayer Group. It was thus able to contribute the in-house know-how acquired there together with its best practice expertise from other cloud provider selection projects in the best possible way to the advantage of the customer. The consulting spectrum included the conception of the RfP, the creation of the Evaluation Score Card including the applicable evaluation system and usability criteria as well as the creation of the business case for the implementation project of the future HR Cloud Solution.
Added value for Covestro
The HR cloud provider selection was a core component of the overall project to replace the HR system landscape at Covestro which was taken over by Bayer in 2015. On its basis, the provider selection could be made reliably and the migration to the new HR Cloud solution could be successfully carried out in the meantime.

The HCM Consultant Group made a significant contribution to the success of the project with the following results:
- Selection process, selection criteria.
- Conception and execution of the RfP.
- Development and creation of the Evaluation Score Card and its evaluation system.
- Preparation of the business case for the subsequent HR Cloud implementation project.
- Preparation and execution of workshops with providers including evaluation.
- Decision preparation.