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SAP SuccessFactors

New ESSILOR HRIS:
Big Bang deployment in 44 countries

Industry

Manufacturing

Issue

Harmonize, improve and simplify HR processes and user experience for 65,000 employees in 89 countries

Solutions

SAP SuccessFactors :

  • Employee Central
  • Employee Central Payroll
  • Recruiting
  • Onboarding 2.0
  • Compensation
  • Performance & Goals
  • Career & Development
  • Succession Planning

 

Integration with Concur
Integration with Docusign

The World leader in ophthalmic optics Essilor started its HR digital transformation with SAP SuccessFactors and ARAGO Consulting in 2015, with "Big bang" deployment of Talent Management and Core HR modules. In 2020 and 2021, new projects concern EC Payroll, Time-Off and Compensation implementation for Asia and Europe.

Context & Goals:

  • Replacement of a former system for Talent Management.
  • Need to retrieve all its functionalities.
  • Simplify and harmonize processes worldwide in a real time constraint.
  • Mandatory to go live on time, as previous system sunset was planned just before annual performance campaign.
  • Need to have an evolving tool with modular approach for future deployments (Recruiting, Employee Central, Learning, etc.).

 

Solution:

SAP SuccessFactors HCM cloud suite has been chosen for its flexibility, modularity and reliability.

ARAGO Consulting helped ESSILOR to face those challenges:

 

  • Big bang deployment in 44 countries for 4 key modules (Employee Profile, Performance & Goals Management, Career & Development, Succession).
  • Involvement of many stakeholders at each stage of the project, in order to respect the company “consensus” philosophy.

 

Benefits:

  • Alignment of Performance and People Review processes between countries / zones.
  • Easy progressive deployment (6.000 employees in 44 countries first year, 10.000 in 60 countries second year).
  • Reliable reporting for worldwide population.

 

SuccessFactors user friendly interface is key to adoption by employees and managers.

 

“Throughout the project, we benefited from ARAGO Consulting’s business and technical expertise. Their flexibility has been key to cross critical steps. ”
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