Situation Before Implementing Oracle HCM Cloud

A School District faced significant operational challenges with its legacy HR software. The district needed to improve productivity, streamline HR operations, and reduce administrative costs and inefficiencies.

The district sought to adopt a modern HCM cloud solution to gain efficiencies and streamline HR operations for improved performance in recruiting, absence management, and performance appraisals. Key objectives in this endeavor included:

  • Establish integration between recruiting, human resources, benefits, and payroll
  • Enable employee-initiated compensation requests
  • Establish multiple assignment-based eligibilities
  • Allow mass salary changes and grade advancements
  • Initiate two payrolls
  • Establish distinct approvals with complex data security
  • Automate manual processes for calculating overtime pay
  • Improve collaboration between HR and Finance and align headcount planning with demand drivers and budgets
  • Efficiently manage absenteeism to close the gap between workforce supply and demand
  • Implement monthly timecards and streamline position control budgeting

AST’s implementation provides seamless integration of HCM Cloud Applications; modernizing its HR operations and increasing employee satisfaction.”

Ajit Sathaye VP, Pre-sales, AST LLC
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AST’s implementation provides seamless integration of HCM Cloud Applications; modernizing its HR operations and increasing employee satisfaction.”

Ajit Sathaye VP, Pre-sales, AST LLC

Solution & Benefits of Implementing Cloud HCM in Education

AST’s decades of experience in transforming HR and Payroll operations were key to our selection for this engagement. The implementation of Oracle’s robust HR & Recruiting Cloud solution, along with Payroll Cloud Applications, enabled intuitive automation and valuable and immediate insight into workforce performance, and alignment with organizational objectives. AST’s solution has allowed the district to achieve key operational objectives, including:

  • Replacement of manual processes and elimination of paper forms for compensation transactions
  • Increased accuracy in overtime pay calculations, comprehensive Total Compensation Statements and grade rate-based salary ranges to aid managers
  • Systemized initiation of advancement and compensation requests by employees
  • Streamlined field visibility for each role’s responsibility and improved internal process efficiency
  • Improved visibility into funding for positions
  • Use of monthly timecards
  • Reference check email, portability automation, and notifications
  • Greater accuracy of reconciliation
Industry: Education

Solution Components:

  • Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud
    • Oracle Global Payroll Cloud
    • Oracle Time and Labor Cloud (OTL)
    • Oracle Performance Management Cloud
    • Oracle Absence Management
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AST’s implementation of Oracle HCM Cloud and modern best practices for HR in Education has enabled the School District to transform back-office operations and improve the employee and constituent experiences.