Sage ERP X3 HRM

Faced with market instability and increasing competition, senior management has wised up to how businesses more than ever can leverage human resources to achieve a competitive advantage.

Payroll and administrative management may still be on their list of priorities, but HR teams are spending more of their time uncovering and retaining talent, driving change management, supporting managers, preventing psychosocial risks and re-designing training approaches at a time when employees regularly switch companies and even change career.

In a move to help HR teams meet their objectives on time, Sage has designed Sage ERP X3 HRM, an end-to-end modular solution.

Go for a 360° insight into your human capitalOffering powerful performance with an easy-to-use interface, Sage ERP X3 HRM is the ideal solution for all mid-sized and large companies looking to raise the bar on payroll and administrative management, while developing a holistic management approach to their human capital.

Set your HR teams free from their administrative tasks Sage ERP X3 HRM uses Web 2.0 technologies to drive a collaborative work environment and help all employees play a role in effectively managing the company's human capital. No longer wasting time on administrative tasks, HR teams can focus their attention on higher value-added duties, such as developing employee skills and paving the way for restructuring plans.

Use Sage ERP X3 HRM to transform human capital management into a strategic advantage

The five key benefits of Sage ERP X3 HRM

• A modular solution that adaptsto your company’s size andorganisation.

• An end-to-end expert solution thatcovers every aspect of humanresources.

• Unrivalled capacity for customisationand configuration in the mid-market.

• A management solution that canintegrate into Sage ERP X3 or workas a standalone program.

• A Sage legislative intelligence unit toensure incorporation of all changes in standards.

Offering powerful performance with an easy-to-use interface, Sage ERP X3 HRM is the ideal solution for all mid-sized and large companies

Your human resources management solution must be quickly scalable over time, while minimising any impacts on your company. Sage ERP X3 HRM is an innovative solution that requires few custom developments and keeps you in step with your company's development.

Sage ERP X3 HRM - an end-to-end modular solutionSage ERP X3 HRM is an end-to-end solution that delivers all the business functionality required by your HR teams. Sage ERP X3 HRM helps your teams combine personnel administration with human capital management using the same repository, thereby providing a global insight into your company's activity. With the Sage ERP X3 HRM modular solution, you can implement the different components to reflect your company's priorities.

SAFE X3 - a technological platform designed for HR teamsAs standard, Sage ERP X3 HRM features the technical functionality built into the SAFE* X3 technological platform. SAFE X3 has already proved a tremendous success with 3 300 businesses and boasts 180,000 users around the world. SAFE X3 simplifies the use and administration of Sage ERP X3 HRM thanks to: • Several different presets for fast implementation and

uptake.• An open, Web service-oriented architecture allowing

up to 2,000 concurrent logins.• A powerful notification management feature for

automating your business processes.• A dynamic and intuitive Web 2.0 portal providing easy

access to information from external applications (Webpages, RSS feeds…).

• Report publishing tools and decision-support tools builtinto the platform (Crystal Reports integrated, decision-support data mart used via Business Objects, etc.).

Sage ERP X3 HRM, synonymous with flexibility and expertise

Looking to spend less time on the administrative aspects of your job and instead focus on its strategic areas?Delivering high performance, flexibility and a wealth of collaborative tools, Sage ERP X3 HRM can help you ramp up productivity.

Go for a powerful management solution• Process between 5,000 and 10,000 payslips an hour.• Carry out all the operations required to produce and file payroll

information in real time.

Develop your agility• Leverage the solution's functional structure, which

is suited to companies with multiple BUs anddecentralised organisations.

• Automatically incorporate support for concurrentcontracts, multiple contracts, multiple jobs andsuccessive jobs (such as seasonal work).

• Go for an event-driven approach and streamline themanagement of individual records.

Organise work time to maximise value• Define the types of working hours, work cycles, and the

individual and group rosters to determine the activity ofeach employee.

• Take advantage of the easy and secure data entryinterface.

Go for a decentralised management system involving your employees• Manage enterprise-wide business processes and set

up information, alert and approval workflows with theworkflow engine.

• Disseminate information in a simple, timely and securemanner with the Web 2.0 portal.

• Give all your employees and managers the facility touse the collaborative portal to update their personalinformation (date of birth, leave requests, trainingrecord, expenses, and so on).

Use the integrated collaborative portal to graphically enter your employees' expenses.

The collaborative portal gives all employees access to their personnel record and allows them to manage their leave requests, expenses, and so on.

Streamline administrative management with Sage ERP X3 HRM

Sage ERP X3 HRM is an extensive, future-proof solution and a perfect match for our specific requirements. We process close to 10,000 payslips every month, and this application will help improve our efficiency. Furthermore, the "Social Intelligence" functions in Sage ERP X3 HRM will enable us to provide relevant indicators to point managers in the right direction when mapping out the company's strategic guidelines.

B. JOMOUTONGeneral Manager - Globalis

Your employees are the key to weathering the current crisis. In case of two companies with similar resources, the company with better human skills will gain the upper hand. With support from management, your HR teams must pursue a strong policy to attract and retain talented employees and subsequently develop their skills.

Leverage skills, jobs and work centres• Identify the skills of all your employees, as well as their

strengths and areas for improvement.• Keep tabs on the recruitment process in real time and

define the sticking points with the collaborative portal.• For each job, define the missions, required skills and the

specifics of the associated contract or agreement.• Automatically consolidate and exploit the data generated

during skills diagnostics, annual appraisals and careerdevelopment plans.

Redefine your continuing professional development policy• Easily compile employee requests through the

collaborative portal.• Build and estimate training plans.• Satisfy the requirements of the reform on continual

professional development: calculation of training costs,job adaptability, career development and employability,skills development…

Get middle management involved• Use the collaborative tools to give managers regular

updates on training and recruitment actions (example:alert when employees reach the end of their trial period).

• Work directly with managers when organising andplanning various appraisal campaigns using thecollaborative portal.

• Give them the possibility of publishing their own jobvacancies.

View profile search results in radar format.

The Web 2.0 portal gives your HR teams real-time access to business indicators.

Develop your human capital with Sage ERP X3 HRM

Service and training are essential in our business as a supplier. We need to give franchisees every support with their development, business plan, and so on. In our case, keeping automatic tabs on training, especially in accordance with lifelong learning regulations, is becoming essential. We are also planning to streamline the way in which we manage careers thanks to Sage ERP X3 HRM: until now, everything we know and have learnt about our employees' careers has been committed to memory, but considering how fast the company is growing, this is no longer practical.

E. MILLETChief Financial and Administrative Officer La Vie Claire

With its countless graphic processes, Sage ERP X3 HRM brings decision support to all your HR teams.

The collaborative portal strengthens communication with managers and all employees

Make analytics the backbone of your HR strategy with Sage ERP X3 HRM

Working in tandem with top management, the human resources division needs reliable information to make informed evaluations and decisions. With Business Intelligence functions seamlessly integrated into Sage ERP X3 HRM, your HR teams have access to dashboards and the associated indicators for an instant global snapshot of your company's human capital.

Combine management and simplicity• Give your HR teams customisable tools for quick access

to the information that they need to do their job.• Simplify navigation with the library of ready-to-use

dashboards, indicators and reports.• Enable your HR teams to see their processes in chart

format by sequence, function and medium.

Make real-time evaluations and decisions• Compare scenarios and make forecasts between

budgeted and actual figures, and analyse operational indicators, such as overtime.

• Effectively manage the enterprise-wide recruitment and training processes using the fully customisable workflow engine.

• Simulate changes to your total payroll. With a greater insight and proactive management of your total payroll, you can take the right salary-related decisions.

Get best results from your data• Centralise all your information with a single repository

and thereby increase the reliability of your processes and analytics.

• Benefit from accurate, exhaustive data for all your employees. You can therefore measure the impact of your HR policy.

• Produce a social report in accordance with legal requirements using indicators that meet your company's criteria (contracts, remuneration elements…).

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